Publications

Regime complexes and national policy coherence: Experiences in the biodiversity cluster

Research article by Velázquez Gomar, Lindsay Stringer, Jouni Paavola on 1 Jan 2014

Regime complexes or overlapping regimes relating to a common subject matter create policy coherence challenges at the national level. Recent research has observed a positive correlation between regime complexes and policy coherence: improved regime integration enables greater policy coherence and vice versa. Policy coherence has nonetheless been approached as a problem of foreign policy and […]

Uncertainty and decision making in climate change economics

Research article by Antony Millner on 1 Jan 2014

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Uncertainty is intrinsic to climate change: we know that the climate is changing but not precisely how fast or in what ways. read more »

The Economics and Financing of City-Scale Retrofits

Book by Andy Gouldson on 1 Jan 2014

In: Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability: Mapping the Transition for 2050, Routledge 2014.

Technology and learning in a global MAC curve: evidence from the phase-out of ozone depleting substances

Working paper by David Grover on 1 Jan 2014

I estimate a marginal abatement cost (MAC) curve using detailed, project-level data from the global phase-out of ozone depleting substances (ODSs) across 145 low-income countries, including … read more »

Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons to environmental variability

Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Maja Schlüter, Simon Levin on 1 Jan 2014

Growing empirical evidence points to the importance of social norms for achieving sustainable use of common pool resources (CPR). Social norms can facilitate the cooperation and … read more »

Network economics and the environment: insights and perspectives

Working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Sergio Currarini on 1 Jan 2014

Recent research in the field of network economics has shown how explicitly modelling the network structure of social and economic relations can provide significant theoretical insights, … read more »

Flood insurance in England – an assessment of the current and newly proposed insurance scheme in the context of rising flood risk

Working paper by Swenja Surminski, Jillian Eldridge on 1 Jan 2014

Flooding is the largest natural disaster risk in England and it is expected to rise even further as we experience a changing climate and continue putting … read more »

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