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Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict

Research article by Uche Okpara, Lindsay Stringer, Andy Dougill on 8 Feb 2016

The science of climate security and conflict is replete with controversies. Yet the increasing vulnerability of politically fragile countries to the security consequences of climate change is widely acknowledged. Although climate conflict reflects a continuum of conditional forces that coalesce around the notion of vulnerability, how different portrayals of vulnerability influence the discursive formation of […]

Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: an agent-based model approach

Working paper by Katie Jenkins, Swenja Surminski, Jim Hall, Florence Crick on 8 Feb 2016

Flooding is the costliest natural disaster worldwide. In the UK flooding is listed as a major risk on the National Risk Register with surface water flooding the most likely cause … read more »

Perspectives on contextual vulnerability in discourses of climate conflict

Research article by Andy Dougill, Lindsay Stringer, Uche Okpara on 1 Feb 2016

The science of climate security and conflict is replete with controversies. Yet the increasing vulnerability of politically fragile countries to the security consequences of climate change is widely acknowledged. Although climate conflict reflects a continuum of conditional forces that coalesce around the notion of vulnerability, how different portrayals of vulnerability influence the discursive formation of […]

Beyond the targets: assessing the political credibility of pledges for the Paris Agreement

Policy publication by Alina Averchenkova on 1 Feb 2016

This report provides the results of an analysis of “intended nationally determined contributions”, or INDCs, that were submitted by countries ahead of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Research article by Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin, John Van Reenen on 1 Feb 2016

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g., electric, … read more »

Water resources transfers through southern African food trade: water efficiency and climate signals

Research article by Carole Dalin, Declan Conway on 27 Jan 2016

We combine global hydrological model simulations with international food trade data to quantify the water resources embedded in international food trade in southern Africa and with the rest of the world, from 1986–2011. read more »

Well-being dynamics and poverty traps

Working paper by Christopher Barrett, Linden McBride on 20 Jan 2016

A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to the poor’s equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally important to the development of policies and interventions … read more »

Spatio-temporal analyses of impacts of multiple climatic hazards in the savannah ecosystem of Ghana

Working paper by Gerald Yiran, Lindsay Stringer on 20 Jan 2016

Ghana’s savannah ecosystem has been subjected to a number of climatic hazards of varying severity over the past three decades. This paper presents a spatial, time-series analysis of the impacts of multiple hazards on the ecosystem and human livelihoods, using the Upper East Region of Ghana as a case study. Our aim is to understand […]

Climate change policy, innovation and growth

Policy publication by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Ralf Martin on 18 Jan 2016

New clean technologies are urgently required to meet long-term global climate goals. Simulating the development of these technologies has become worldwide policy priority. This policy brief uses the … read more »

Spaces for Agreement: A Theory of Time-Stochastic Dominance and an Application to Climate Change

Research article by Simon Dietz on 16 Jan 2016

Many investments involve both a long time horizon and risky returns. Making investment decisions thus requires assumptions about time and risk preferences. Such assumptions are frequently contested, particularly in the … read more »