I am an environmental economist,
though I am also interested in
environmental science and philosophy. I work on
climate change and
sustainable development, and have recently rekindled an old
interest in biodiversity. My research looks at decision-making under uncertainty, questions of equity/social justice within and
between generations, the links between economic growth and
the environment, and international environmental agreements.
What's new?
Second edition of the Handbook of Sustainable Development on
the way
"Scientific ambiguity and climate policy" (with
Antony Millner and Geoffrey Heal), Environmental and Resource
Economics, 55(1), 21-46, 2013 (link
to journal)
"Tall tales and fat tails: the science and economics of extreme
warming" (with Raphael Calel and David Stainforth), 2013 (download)
"Vulnerability to weather disasters: the choice of coping strategies
in rural Uganda" (with Jennifer Helgeson and Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler),
Ecology and Society,
18(2), 2, 2013 (download)
"Carbon tax v cap-and-trade: which is better?" (with Luca Taschini
and Naomi Hicks),
Guardian's
Ultimate Climate Change FAQ, 2013 (link)
"Why do we see unilateral action on climate change?" (with Carmen
Marchiori and Alessandro Tavoni), Vox, 5 December 2012 (link)
"Report on Kerry Smith's keynote lecture to EAERE2012: valuing
nature in general equilibrium", EAERE Newsletter, Autumn 2012
(link;
EAERE members only)
"Ambiguity and insurance: robust capital requirements and premiums"
(with Oliver Walker), Centre for Climate
Change Economics and Policy Working Paper 115, Munich Re Programme
Technical Paper 16, and Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment Working Paper 97, 2012 (download)
"Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental
agreements" (with Carmen Marchiori and Alessandro Tavoni),
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Working Paper 100 and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change
and the Environment Working Paper 87, 2012 (download)
"The equity-efficiency trade-off in environmental
policy: evidence from stated preferences" (with Giles Atkinson), reprinted in Kenneth G. Willis and Guy Garrod (eds.) Valuing
Environment and Natural Resources, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,
2012
(download)
(link
to publisher's page)
