Publications

Microfinance and climate change adaptation: an overview of the current literature

Research article by Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire on 28 Sep 2015

Abstract There is growing interest in the role microfinance could play in facilitating adaptation to climate change. This article contributes to this interest by reviewing the state of the literature on microfinance and climate change adaptation which has two key areas. The first area of the literature focuses on the potential for microfinance to facilitate […]

Lessons from energy history for climate policy

Working paper by Roger Fouquet on 28 Sep 2015

This paper sought to draw lessons from long run trends in energy markets for energy and climate policy. An important lesson is that consumer responses to energy markets change with … read more »

Hand in hand: Public endorsement of climate change mitigation and adaptation

Research article by Suraje Dessai on 24 Sep 2015

Brügger, A, Morton, TA and Rauto Dessai, S (2015). In: PLoS ONE, 10 (4). e0124843. ISSN 1932-6203

Observations on the role of the private sector in the UNFCCC’s loss and damage of climate change work program

Research article by Swenja Surminski, Jillian Eldridge on 21 Sep 2015

Swenja Surminski and Jillian Eldridge, 2015. In: International Journal of Global Warming 2015 – Vol. 8, No.2 pp. 213 – 230

The impact of controversy on the production of scientific knowledge

Working paper by Amelia Sharman on 18 Sep 2015

Much of the existing literature employing the framework of controversy focuses on the science-policy interface. However a clear gap exists regarding the way(s) in which controversy may fundamentally shape the … read more »

Multi-level environmental governance: exploring the economic explanations

Research article by Jouni Paavola on 17 Sep 2015

Multi-level environmental governance (MLEG) has become commonplace, yet few attempts have been made to explain in economic terms why it should have emerged. This article examines four economic explanations for MLEG. The first considers it as a solution for overcoming collective action challenges when a large number of actors are involved. The second explanation is […]

Limits to the quantification of local climate change

Research article by David Stainforth on 16 Sep 2015

Sandra C Chapman, David A Stainforth and Nicholas W Watkins. (2015). In: Environmental Research Letters. 10.

Seven centuries of European economic growth and decline

Working paper by Roger Fouquet, Stephen Broadberry on 15 Sep 2015

This paper investigates very long run pre-industrial economic development. New annual GDP per capita data for six European countries over the last seven hundred years paint a clearer picture of … read more »

A review of the economics of adaptation and climate-resilient development

Working paper by Paul Watkiss on 14 Sep 2015

This working paper aims to inform the development community about the current state-of-knowledge and emerging thinking on the economics of adaptation and the application to development. read more »

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange and spatial price dispersion

Working paper by Camilla Andersson, Andrea Mannberg on 11 Sep 2015

This working paper looks at the impact of an institutional intervention on market efficiency in Ethiopia. More specifically it examines whether regional warehouses that are connected to a national commodity exchange reduce transaction costs and price dispersion between regions. read more »