Policy publication by Nicholas Stern on 23 Mar 2015
Paper asserts that overseas aid to support developing countries should be interwoven with efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. It claims that efforts to separate the two could be deeply damaging. read more »
Working paper by Michael Spackman on 9 Mar 2015
The key analytical aspects of social time discounting were largely resolved by the early 1970s, the main developments since then being empirical studies and more emphasis, since the mid 1990s, … read more »
Research article by Sam Fankhauser on 13 Feb 2015
Eyckmans, J., S. Fankhauser, and S. Kverndokk (2015). In Environmental and Resource Economics
Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova, Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis on 11 Dec 2014
Countries are now seeking to reach a new international agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015. A key element of the international negotiations … read more »
Working paper by Antony Millner, Geoffrey Heal on 24 Nov 2014
Intertemporal conflicts occur when a group of agents with heterogeneous time preferences must make a collective decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We … read more »
Working paper by Lindsay Stringer, Claire Quinn, Rachel Berman, Hue Le, Flower Msuya, Juarez Pezzuti on 6 Oct 2014
Resilience and nexus thinking are often applied separately to investigate social-ecological systems (SES), wherein both approaches are critiqued for a lack of explicit focus on issues of justice and equity. This paper synthesises the main strengths and shortcomings of these approaches, before drawing on resilience and nexus strengths to present a novel, integrated framework to […]
Research article by James Van Alstine on 1 Oct 2014
Shale gas has become an energy policy priority in the United Kingdom in light of profitable extraction activities in the United States. Since 2012 the Coalition Government has created key economic drivers to encourage shale exploration, whilst growing activism in affected site communities has stirred significant media and academic commentary. This study examines the growing […]
Research article by Antony Millner on 7 Sep 2014
We model how heterogeneous beliefs about the uncertain consequences of long-run policy choices affect the incentives of incumbent governments. read more »
Research article by Nicholas Stern on 18 Aug 2014
Economics and Philosophy, Vol 30, Issue 03. November 2014. pp 397 – 444. DOI: 10.1017/S0266267114000297 This paper examines a broad range of ethical perspectives and principles relevant to the analysis … read more »
Research article by Antony Millner on 11 Mar 2014
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Disagreements about the value of the utility discount rate—the rate at which our concern for the welfare of future people declines with their distance from us in time—are at the heart of the debate about the appropriate intensity of climate policy. read more »
