Research article by Alessandro Tavoni on 10 Feb 2017
Effective responses to climate change may demand a radical shift in human lifestyles away from self-interest for material gain, towards self-restraint for the public good. The challenge then lies … read more »
Research article by Alessandro Tavoni on 9 Feb 2017
Ensuring food security requires food production and distribution systems function throughout disruptions. Understanding the factors that contribute to the global food system’s ability to respond and adapt to such … read more »
Research article by Shaikh Eskander, Edward barbier on 6 Feb 2017
We develop an overlapping generation model of rural agricultural households to examine whether tenure security and subsistence needs influence the choice between unexploited topsoil and investment in children’s human … read more »
Working paper by François Cohen, Matthieu Glachant, Magnus Söderberg on 1 Feb 2017
Using household-level data from the American Housing Survey, this paper assesses the cost of adapting housing to temperature increases. The authors account for both energy use adjustments and capital adjustments … read more »
Working paper by Greer Gosnell, John List, Robert Metcalfe on 31 Jan 2017
Understanding motivations in the workplace remains of utmost import as economies around the world rely on increases in labor productivity to foster sustainable economic growth. The authors of this paper … read more »
Working paper by Lina Brand Correa, Paul E. Brockway, Claire Carter, Tim Foxon, Peter Taylor on 27 Jan 2017
Concerns have been raised that declining energy return on investment (EROI) from fossil fuels and low levels of EROI for alternative energy sources could constrain the ability of national economies to continue to deliver economic growth and improvements in social wellbeing. However, in order to test these concerns on a national scale, there is a […]
Working paper by Francisco Pereira Fontes, Charles Palmer on 27 Jan 2017
This paper examines whether patterns of cattle intensification, deforestation, and pasture expansion in the Brazilian state of Rondonia are consistent with the land rent framework, in which location and distance to markets are key determinants of rents. A panel dataset of household lots, collected between 1996 and 2009, is used to test the hypothesis that […]
Policy publication by Bob Ward, Maria Carvalho on 24 Jan 2017
This submission to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s inquiry on Leaving the EU: negotiation priorities for energy and climate change policy focuses on the following questions: Which aspects … read more »
Working paper by Antony Millner, Daniel Heyen on 24 Jan 2017
How important is it to be able to predict the distant future? The authors of this paper study this question in a model of an agent who operates in a … read more »
Book by Stavros Afionis on 23 Jan 2017
The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations. Its role in the development of the climate change regime, as well as the adoption of novel policy instruments such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2005, are frequently put forward as indicative of a determination to push the international climate […]
