The three-phases of research and engagement (2008–2023) of the ESRC-funded Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) ended in December 2023. All CCCEP publications are available on this legacy website. Any new outputs will be uploaded to the site between 2024 and 2028.
Working paper by Viktor Rözer, Swenja Surminski, Finn Laurien, Colin McQuistan, Reinhard Mechler on 22 Apr 2021
The concept of ‘multiple resilience dividends’ is not yet widely applied. This paper analyses the knowledge gaps and challenges that arise from applying ‘multiple resilience dividends’ in the planning, implementation and evaluation of disaster risk reduction interventions at the community level.
The analysis suggests that the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets mostly create conditions that aid the achievement of each other within development corridors but that there are trade-offs between some goals and other development gains. The authors signal priority areas for investment, policy reorientation and strengthened safeguards, to maximise positive SDG interactions and minimise negative ones.
Working paper by Giles Atkinson, Paola Ovando on 18 Nov 2020
This paper examines the significance of the ownership of natural capital in the context of natural capital accounting, illustrated with regard to two ecosystem services – carbon sequestration and air pollution removal – and a range of ecosystem types and land ownership in Scotland.
The authors find that new homes built in economically deprived parts of England and Wales between 2008 and 2018 are more likely, compared with new housing in more affluent areas, to become exposed to high flood risk over their lifetime as a result of climate change.
Working paper by Quentin Coutellier, Greer Gosnell, Zeynep Gürgüç, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls on 14 Sep 2020
The authors of this paper analyse flexibility in residential energy demand through a series of experiments on the adoption and usage of WiFi-enabled smart plugs in the home.
Working paper by Julius Andersson, Giles Atkinson on 9 Sep 2020
The fact that a carbon tax is an environmentally and economically efficient instrument for reducing emissions is often highlighted, but the equity story is also of importance. This paper addresses the question of the distributional burden of a carbon tax across different income groups and the role played by income inequality.
Working paper by Architesh Panda, Swenja Surminski on 7 Sep 2020
How to effectively monitor and evaluate the use of climate and disaster risk insurance remains unclear. This paper reviews how these instruments are currently evaluated and finds a need for transparent monitoring and evaluation frameworks to enable greater scrutiny and to assist those funding, demanding or supplying insurance, with evidence from India and Africa.
Cooperative behavior is essential for societies to thrive and for humanity to address local and global social dilemmas. This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different strategies for identifying trust, to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior, including that needed to advance progress on climate change mitigation.
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Julia Blasch on 1 Sep 2020
The authors of this paper devise a new strategy for social interventions designed to increase climate-friendly behaviour, testing the proclivity of attendees at a major European environmental economics conference to offset their carbon emissions from travelling to the conference.
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Marcella Veronesi on 24 Aug 2020
This paper studies the relationship between generalised trust in other members in society, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers, asking whether trust mitigates or increases the impact of climate change on migration.
