Journal articles
Journal articles
Laing, T., and C. Palmer (2015) 'Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence', Resource and Energy Economics 40: 107-126.
Engel, S., C. Palmer, L. Taschini, and S. Urech (2015) 'Conservation payments under uncertainty', Land Economics 91(1): 36-56.
Palmer, C. (2014) 'Making a difference? Accounting for non-governmental organizations in the co-management of Lore Lindu National Park, Indonesia', Journal of Environment and Development 23 (4): 417-445.
Groom, B., and C. Palmer (2014) 'Relaxing constraints as a conservation policy', Environment and Development Economics 19(4): 505-528.
Delacote, P., C. Palmer, R. K. Bakkegaard, and B. J. Thorsen (2014) 'Unveiling information on opportunity costs in REDD: who obtains the surplus when policy objectives differ?', Resource and Energy Economics 36(2): 508-527.
Andrade de Sa, S., C. Palmer, and S. Di Falco (2013) 'Dynamic effects of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (3): 377-393.
Engel, S., C. Palmer, and A. Pfaff (2013) 'On the endogeneity of resource co-management: theory and evidence from Indonesia', Land Economics 89 (2): 308-329.
Palmer, C., and S. Di Falco (2012) 'Biodiversity, poverty, and development', Oxford Review of Economic Policy 28 (1): 48-68.
Groom, B., and C. Palmer (2012) 'REDD+ and rural livelihoods', Biological Conservation 154: 42-52.
MacKenzie, I. A., M. Ohndorf, and C. Palmer (2012) 'Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration'****, Oxford Economic Papers 64 (2): 350-374.
Andrade de Sa, S., C. Palmer, and S. Engel (2012) 'Ethanol production, food and forests', Environmental and Resource Economics 51 (1): 1-21.
Palmer, C., and T. Silber (2012) 'Trade-offs between carbon sequestration and rural incomes in the N'hambita Community Carbon Project, Mozambique'***, Land Use Policy 29 (1): 83-93.
Engel, S., and C Palmer (2011) 'Complexities of decentralization in a globalizing world', Environmental and Resource Economics 50 (2): 157-74.
Palmer, C. (2011) 'Property rights and liability for deforestation under REDD+: implications for 'permanence' in policy design', Ecological Economics 70 (4): 571-76.
Palmer, C. (2010) 'REDD+: property rights and liability', Science 328 (5982): 1105.
Groom, B., and C. Palmer (2010) 'Cost-effective provision of environmental services: the role of relaxing market constraints', Environment and Development Economics 15 (2): 219-40.
Palmer, C., and J. MacGregor (2009) 'Fuelwood scarcity, energy substitution and rural livelihoods in Namibia', Environment and Development Economics 14 (6): 693-715.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2008) 'Payments for environmental services as an alternative to logging under weak property rights: The case of Indonesia'*, Ecological Economics 65 (4): 799-809.
Palmer, C., and S. Engel (2007) 'For better or for worse? Local impacts from the decentralization of Indonesia's forest sector'**, World Development 35 (12): 2131-49.
Palmer, C. (2007) 'The role of leadership in the collective enforcement of community property rights in Indonesia', Society and Natural Resources 20 (5): 397-413.
Engel, S, and C. Palmer (2006) 'Who owns the right? The determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia', Forest Policy and Economics 8 (4): 434-46.
Engel, S., R. Lopez, and C. Palmer (2006) 'Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: The case of Indonesia', Environmental and Resource Economics 33 (1): 73-93.
Palmer, C. (2005) 'The nature of corruption in forest management', World Economics 6 (2): 1-10.
Atkinson, G., B. Day, S. Mourato, and C. Palmer (2004) ''Amenity' or 'eyesore'? Negative willingness to pay for options to replace electricity transmission towers', Applied Economics Letters 11 (4): 203-8.
Pearce, D. W., and C. Palmer (2001) 'Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross-country policy analysis', Fiscal Studies 22 (4): 403-56.
* Featured in the European Commission's 'Science for Environment Policy' DG Environment News Alert Service in May 2008.
** Featured in the Center for International Forestry Research's (CIFOR) POLEX newsletter in April 2006.
*** Featured in the Science and Development Network, January 2012.
**** In OEP's Top 10 most-cited papers in 2012-13
Monographs
Palmer, C., and S. Engel (eds.) (2009) Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change*, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxford.
Palmer, C. (2006) The Outcomes and Their Determinants from Community-Company Contracting over Forest Use in Post-Decentralization Indonesia, Development Economics and Policy Vol. 52, Peter Lang, Frankfurt.
Pearce, D. W., C. Pearce, and C. Palmer (eds.) (2002) Valuing Environmental Benefits. Volume I: Case Studies from the Developing World. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
* Featured in (1) the Conference on Biological Diversity (CBD) 'REDD and Biodiversity e-Newsletter', Volume 5 in July 2009, and (2) the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) newsletter 'IUFRO News', Volume 38, issue 7/8 2009.
Book chapters
Palmer, C., and S. Di Falco (2014) 'Biodiversity, poverty, and development', forthcoming chapter 18 in P. Nunes, P. Kumar and T. Dedeurwaerdere (eds.) Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Palmer, C., and S. Di Falco (2014) 'Biodiversity, poverty, and development: a review', chapter 10 in D. Helm and C. Hepburn (eds.) Nature in the Balance: the Economics of Biodiversity, pp. 201-223, Oxford University Press.
Engel, S., C. Palmer, and M. Berg (2009) 'Market-based solutions to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD)', chapter 10 in A. Calvello (ed.), Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change, Wiley & Sons, pp. 213-244.
Palmer, C., and S. Engel (2009) 'Introduction: reducing CO2 emissions through avoiding deforestation?', chapter 1 in: C. Palmer and S. Engel (eds.), Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change, Routledge, Oxford, pp. 1-8.
Palmer, C., and K. Obidzinski (2009) 'Choosing avoided deforestation baselines in the context of government failure: the case of Indonesia's plantations policy', chapter 7 in: C. Palmer and S. Engel (eds.), Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change, Routledge, Oxford, pp. 110-129.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2009) 'Prospects for mitigating climate change through avoided deforestation: Conclusions and outlook', chapter 14 in: C. Palmer and S. Engel (eds.), Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change, Routledge, Oxford, pp. 235-250.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2009) 'Designing payments for environmental services with weak property rights and external interests', chapter 3 in: L. Lipper, R. Stringer, T. Sakuyama, and D. Zilberman (eds.), Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes: Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Springer Press, pp. 35-57.
Palmer, C. (2008) 'Who, how and for what? Negotiations and outcomes from logging agreements between communities and brokers in Malinau', chapter 6 in: Moeliono, M., E. Wollenberg, and G. Limberg (eds.), The Decentralization of Forest Governance. Politics, Economics and the Fight for Control of Forests in Indonesian Borneo. Earthscan, London, pp. 109-137.
Palmer, C. (2008) 'The best of both worlds. Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in forest management research in Indonesia', chapter 5 in: Wall, C., and P. Mollinga (eds.), Field Work in Difficult Environments: Methodology as Boundary Work in Development Research, Lit Verlag, Berlin, pp. 83-109.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2007) 'The role of decentralization in integrating cross-sectoral demands on forests', chapter 2 in: Dube, Y., and F. Schmithusen (eds.), Cross-sectoral Policy Developments in Forestry, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) & CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp. 14-23.
Pearce, D. W., and C. Palmer (2003) 'Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross-country policy analysis', chapter 8 in: Miles, D., G. Myles, and I. Preston (eds.), The Economics of Public Spending, Oxford University Press, pp. 267-318.
Other
Book reviews
Palmer, C. (2009) 'Rethinking political theory: ethics, justice and global climate change', Climate Policy 9 (6): 684-686.
Palmer, C. (2008) 'Deke, O.: Environmental policy instruments for conserving global biodiversity', Journal of Economics 95: 183-185.
Working papers
Laing, T., L. Taschini, C. Palmer, J. Wehkamp, S. Fuss, and W. H. Reuter (2015) 'Understanding the demand for REDD+ credits', Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 218, London School of Economics, UK.
Hilber, C. A. L., and C. Palmer (2014) 'Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities', Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC) Discussion Paper No. 169, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 175, London School of Economics, UK.
Andersen, L., U. Bilge, B. Groom, D. Gutierrez, E. Killick, J. C. Ledezma, C. Palmer, and D. Weinhold (2014) 'Modelling land use, deforestation, and policy analysis: A hybrid optimization-ABM heterogeneous agent model with application to the Bolivian Amazon', Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 164, London School of Economics, UK.
Laing, T., and C. Palmer (2013) 'Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence', Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 110, London School of Economics, UK.
Groom, B., and C. Palmer (2012) 'Relaxing constraints as a conservation policy', Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Nota di Lavoro #63.2012, Italy.
Andrade de Sa, S., C. Palmer, and S. Di Falco (2012) 'Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil', Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 74, London School of Economics, UK.
Engel, S., C. Palmer, L. Taschini, and S. Urech (2012) 'Conservation payments under uncertainty when nonuse benefits have market value', Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 72, London School of Economics, UK.
MacKenzie, I. A., M. Ohndorf, and C. Palmer (2010) 'Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration', Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 27, London School of Economics, UK.
Engel, S., C. Palmer, and A. Pfaff (2010) 'Participatory protection in theory and application: paper tigers, fences & fines, or negotiated co-management?', Duke Environmental Economics Working Paper Series 10-02, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, US.
Andrade de Sa, S., C. Palmer, and S. Engel (2010) 'Ethanol production, food and forests', Environmental Economy and Policy Research Working Paper No. 48, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK.
Groom, B., and C. Palmer (2009) 'Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both?', Environmental Economy and Policy Research Working Paper No. 46, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK.
Palmer, C., and T. Silber (2009) 'Trade-offs between carbon sequestration and poverty alleviation in community-based land use systems: Preliminary evidence from Mozambique', Research Papers in Spatial and Environmental Analysis no. 130, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2009) 'The complexities of decentralization in a globalized world', Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED) Working Paper No. 8, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Palmer, C., M. Ohndorf and I. A. MacKenzie (2009) 'Life's a breach! Ensuring 'permanence' in forest carbon sinks under incomplete enforcement', Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich (CER-ETH) Working Paper 09/113, Zurich, Switzerland.
Groom, B., and C. Palmer (2008) 'Direct vs indirect payments for environmental services: the role of relaxing market constraints', Environmental Economy and Policy Research Working Paper No. 36, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2008) ''"Painting the forest REDD"? Prospects for mitigating climate change through reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation', Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED) Working Paper No. 3, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
MacGregor, J., C. Palmer, and J. Barnes (2007) 'Forest resources and rural livelihoods in the North-central regions of Namibia', Environmental Economics Programme Discussion Paper 07-01, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.
Palmer, C. (2004) 'The role of collective action in determining the benefits from IPPK logging concessions: a case study from Sekatak, East Kalimantan', Working Paper No. 28, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.
Palmer, C. (2001) 'The Extent and Causes of Illegal Logging: an Analysis of a Major Cause of Tropical Deforestation in Indonesia'. Working Paper, The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), Department of Economics, University College London, London.
Reports
Di Falco, S., A. Doku, and C. Palmer (2013) 'Biofuels scoping review', Climate, Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods Professional Evidence and Applied Knowledge Services (CEIL PEAKS) Programme, Department for International Development (DFID), UK.
Richards, M., C. Palmer, C. Young, K. Obidzinski (2003) 'Higher international standards or rent-seeking race to the bottom? The impacts of forest product trade liberalisation on forest governance'. Background report for Impact Assessment of Forest Products Trade in Promotion of Sustainable Forest Management, GCP/INT/775/JPN. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Rome.
Palmer, C. and K. Obidzinski (2003) 'The effects of the timber trade on forest governance in East Kalimantan, Indonesia', case study prepared for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.
Palmer, C. (2003) 'The physical and economic accounts for UK fisheries', report prepared for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK Government, London.
Miscellaneous
Palmer, C (2012) 'To what extent could planting trees help solve climate change?', The ultimate climate change FAQ, The Guardian online.
Palmer, C (2012) 'Could REDD+ revolutionise policy to conserve forest?', Sociedad que Inspira 3(17): 53-55.
Palmer, C (2011) 'Kaza: Is the largest wildlife park in the world a conservation challenge too far?', Africa at LSE newsletter online, November 29 2011, London School of Economics.
Palmer, C., M. Ohndorf, and I. MacKenzie (2009) 'Ensuring 'permanence' in forest carbon sinks: Insights from contract theory', IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6: 152001.
Andrade de Sa, S., C. Palmer, and S. Engel (2009) 'Effects of bioethanol production in Brazil', ESC-Newsletter 6, ETH Energy Science Center, Switzerland.
Silber, T., and C. Palmer (2008) 'What role can carbon payments play in poverty alleviation? Analysis of a forestry carbon project in Mozambique', Proceedings of Deutscher Tropentag 2008 - Competition for Resources in a Changing World: New Drive for Rural Development, University of Hohenheim, October 8-10, Cuvillier Verlag Goettingen, pp.369.
Engel, S., and C. Palmer (2008) 1"Painting the forest REDD"? Prospects for mitigating climate change through reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation', IED Newsletter No. 4: 15-18, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Palmer, C. (2008) ''Greening' agriculture in the developing world', Rural21 no. 03/08 (May 2008): 30-32.
Soyka, T., C. Palmer, and S. Engel (2007) 'The impacts of tropical biofuel production on land use', Proceedings of Deutscher Tropentag 2007 - Utilisation of diversity in land use systems: Sustainable and organic approaches to meet human needs, Witzenhausen, Germany, October 9-11, pp.302.
Palmer, C. (2007) 'Viewpoints: How important is security of land tenure for achieving sustainable development goals?' Natural Resources Forum 31 (4): 238-240.
Engel, S. and C. Palmer (2003) 'Can decentralization benefit people and forests? – Evidence from Indonesia', Center for Development Research (ZEF) newsletter No. 14, December 2003, pp4. Bonn, Germany.