Publications

Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, dryland livelihoods and ecosystem service provision

Working paper by Lindsay Stringer, Andy Dougill, Andrew Thomas, Dominick Stracklen, Sabrina Chesterman, Chinwe Ifejika-Speranza, Henri Rueff, Mike Riddell, Mat Williams, Tracy Beedy, David Abson, Patrick Klintenberg, Stephen Syampungani, Philip Powell, Anthony Palmer, Mary Seely, David Mkwambisi, Mario Falcao, Almeida Sitoe, Sally Ross, Goodspeed Kopolo on 1 Jan 2012

Abstract of Working Paper 81 Changes in land use and management practices to store and sequester carbon are becoming integral to global efforts to address climate change, yet knowledge and evidence gaps abound. This paper analyses the most pressing deficiencies in understanding carbon storage in both soils and above ground biomass, focusing on the semi-arid […]

Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty

Working paper by Charles Palmer, Luca Taschini on 1 Jan 2012

The paper analyses the implications of landowners’ option values in land allocation and derives policy recommendations for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … read more »

Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation?

Working paper by Lenny Smith, Ana Lopez, Emma Suckling on 1 Dec 2011

Pattern scaling methods are being widely applied to generate scenarios of climate change for quantication of their impacts on different systems. While generic limitations of this … read more »

Public pressure versus lobbying – how do Environmental NGOs matter most in climate negotiations?

Working paper by on 1 Dec 2011

Advocacy nongovernmental organisations have the largest influence on the outcome of climate negotiations when they mobilise public pressure in collaboration with the media. Environmental NGOs can … read more »

Unawareness with ‘possible’ possible worlds

Working paper by Oliver Walker on 1 Dec 2011

Logical structures for modelling agents’ reasoning about unawareness are presented where it can hold simultaneously that: agents’ beliefs about whether they are fully aware need not … read more »

Government discounting controversies: the valuation of social time preference

Working paper by Michael Spackman on 1 Nov 2011

The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for the comparison of policies or projects from a national perspective … read more »

Government discounting controversies: changing prices, opportunity costs and systematic risk

Working paper by on 1 Nov 2011

The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for public sector analysis have been debated for over half a … read more »

Asymmetry, optimal transfers and international environmental agreements

Working paper by Jonathan Colmer on 1 Nov 2011

This paper applies optimal sharing rules to a coalition formation game with positive externalities, demonstrating the effectiveness of well-designed transfer schemes in improving outcomes for participation … read more »

Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game

Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Astrid Dannenberg, Andreas Löschel, Gabriele Paolacci, Christiane Reif on 1 Nov 2011

We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the … read more »

African farmers’ perceptions of erratic rainfall

Working paper by Elisabeth Simelton, Claire Quinn, Nnyaladzi Batisani, Andy Dougill, Evan Fraser, David Mkwambisi, Steffan Rosell, Susannah Mary Sallu, Philip Antwi-Agyei on 1 Oct 2011

Abstract of Working Paper 73 Farmers’ perceptions of how rainfall is changing is crucial in anticipating the effects of climate change, as only farmers who perceive a problem will adapt to it. However, even within the same location, people may perceive rainfall changes differently. Therefore, how can scientists, practitioners, and farmers ensure that they talk […]