Policy publication by Maria Carvalho, Sam Fankhauser on 24 Apr 2017
This policy brief outlines the opportunities and threats to trade in low-carbon goods and services in the UK. Headline issues UK firms must be able to compete in the low-carbon … read more »
Policy publication by Alex Bowen, Maria Carvalho, Sam Fankhauser, Sini Matikainen, Bob Ward, Dimitri Zenghelis on 24 Apr 2017
This paper was submitted in response to the UK Government’s industrial strategy green paper: ‘Building our industrial strategy‘.
Policy publication by Sini Matikainen on 24 Apr 2017
This policy brief outlines how the public sector can crowd in private finance to support low-carbon growth and innovation in the UK government’s Industrial Strategy. Headline issues Funding the UK’s … read more »
Research article by Ruth Bush, Frin Bale, Andy Gouldson, Peter Taylor, William Gale on 23 Apr 2017
The literature on socio-technical transitions considers how technological innovations can be established within the context of an incumbent regime that is often resistant or inflexible to change. Strategic niche management is an approach to catalysing a transition to a new regime using protected ‘niche’ spaces to enable development and experimentation with an innovation. Intermediary actors […]
Research article by Emmanuel Kwayu, Jouni Paavola, Susannah Mary Sallu on 23 Apr 2017
Research on PES programs in agro-ecosystems is recent and limited in developing countries. The authors use a multi-method, quasi-experimental impact evaluation approach to examine direct and indirect livelihood impacts of the Equitable Payments for Watershed Services (EPWS) program piloted in the Morogoro region in Tanzania. The evaluation is based on a survey of 116 program […]
Research article by Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire on 23 Apr 2017
There is increasing interest in the potential of microfinance to foster climate change adaptation. However, existing literature over-relies upon theoretical arguments rather than empirical evidence, and until now the emphasis has been on potential positive linkages. We address these weaknesses by empirically examining the role of microfinance in adaptation, drawing from household-level quantitative and qualitative […]
Working paper by Matthew England, Andy Dougill, Lindsay Stringer, Katharine Vincent, Joanna Pardoe, Felix Kalaba, David Mkwambisi, Emilinah Namaganda on 7 Apr 2017
To be effective, cross-cutting issues like climate change adaptation need to be mainstreamed across multiple sectors; greater policy coherence is essential in order for this to happen. Using the cases of Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, this paper investigates the extent of coherence in national policies across water and agriculture sectors and their links to climate […]
Research article by Stefano Carattini on 6 Apr 2017
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