We consider how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. We first explore the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-2009 for environmental policies, focusing, … read more »
At present the USA is, in per capita terms, the top greenhouse gas polluter among the world’s major economies. This is mirrored by the high-energy intensity … read more »
Using patent data from 66 countries for the 1990–2003 period, we characterise the factors that promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale read more »
Chapter author in book, published October 2009 – Link to publisher
Alex Bowen, Piers M Forster, Andrew Gouldson, Klaus Hubacek, Ralf Martin, Daniel W O’Neill, Alexandru Rap and James Rydge: Policy paper.
O’Neill, D.W., and Abson, D.J. (2009). Ecological Economics 69, 319-327. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.08.028
Gouldson, A., Morton, A., and Pollard, S.J.T. September 2009. Science of the Total Environment, v.407.
Although there is evidence that CO2-efficiency enhancing innovations in one country diffuse into other countries to contribute to the goals of climate change mitigation, very little … read more »
Murphy, J., and Gouldson, A. 2009 (republished). The Ecological Modernization Reader: environmental reform in theory and practice [Mol, A., Sonnenfeld, D., and Spaargaren, G. [eds], Routledge, Oxford.
In: Hunt, L. and J. Evans (eds.). 2009. International Handbook of the Economics of Energy. Edward Elgar Publications. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA.
