Working paper by David Castells-Quintana, Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe on 20 Jul 2015
This paper looks at adaptation from the point of view of households. It asks how political and economic institutions may help or hinder adaptation decisions. read more »
Research article by Susanne Lorenz on 2 Jul 2015
Daron JD; Lorenz S; Wolski P; Blamey RC; Jack C (2015). In: Climate Risk Management. [IN PRESS]. doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2015.06.007
Research article by Peter Taylor on 27 May 2015
Bright JM, Smith CJ, Taylor PG, Crook R Stochastic. (2015). Solar Energy, vol. 115, pp.229-242. Highlights A sun obscured methodology to generate 1 min resolution irradiance is proposed. A novel approach to generating cloud cover is presented. The use of multiple Markov chains offers improvement to resource modelling. Diurnal okta number variability gives the largest transition […]
Research article by Roman Frigg, Lenny Smith, David Stainforth on 7 May 2015
An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science 2015:739. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0739-8 Abstract The United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme’s UKCP09 project makes high-resolution projections of the climate out to … read more »
Working paper by Amelia Sharman, Candice Howarth on 21 Apr 2015
This paper explores the polarised debate between climate scientists and sceptical voices. It concludes that focusing on overlapping rationales, such as a sense of duty to publicly engage and recognition that political factors are a key topic of disagreement, as well as encouraging individuals to think critically about their own beliefs, may help to encourage constructive discussion and reduce polarisation. read more »
Working paper by Swenja Surminski, Florence Crick, Jillian Eldridge, Paul Hudson, Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Jaroslav Mysiak, Carlos Dionisio Pérez-Blanco, Francisco Rego, Robin Nicolai, Carlos Neto, Reinhard Mechler, António Macedo, Anna Lorant, Conceição Colaço on 30 Mar 2015
In the context of natural disaster insurance and risk reduction this paper looks at how to assess existing insurance offerings and how to design new schemes. read more »
Research article by Swenja Surminski on 26 Mar 2015
Swenja Surminski on how the wait and see policy of businesses is not enough when it comes to global warming read more »
Research article by Simon Dietz, Nicholas Stern on 23 Mar 2015
‘To slow or not to slow’ (Nordhaus, 1991) was the first economic appraisal of greenhouse gas emissions abatement and founded a large literature on a topic of worldwide importance. We offer our assessment of the original article and trace its legacy, in particular Nordhaus’s later series of ‘DICE’ models. From this work, many have drawn the conclusion that an efficient global emissions abatement policy comprises modest and modestly increasing controls. We use DICE itself to provide an initial illustration that, if the analysis is extended to take more strongly into account three essential elements of the climate problem – the endogeneity of growth, the convexity of damage and climate risk – optimal policy comprises strong controls. read more »
Working paper by Alina Averchenkova, Florence Crick, Hayley Leck, Adriana Kocornik-Mina, Swenja Surminski on 11 Mar 2015
Adapting to climate change requires the engagement of all actors in society. Until recently, predominant research focus has been on governments, communities and the third sector as key actors in … read more »
Book by Nicholas Stern on 1 Mar 2015
Nicholas Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006—and far worse than implied by standard economic models. read more »
