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Dr. Charles Palmer
Assistant Professor of Environment and Development (Research
Cluster: Environmental Economics and Policy)
Programme Director M.Sc. Environment and Development
Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment
Department of Geography and Environment, London School
of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, Room: KGS.2.06 (Kings
Chambers)
Tel: +44 (0) 207 107 5093, Fax: +44 (0) 207 955 7412
Email: c.palmer1@lse.ac.uk
Profile
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I
joined the Department of Geography and Environment as a Lecturer
in September 2009 (Assistant Professor as of 2013). Previously, I worked as a Senior Researcher
at the Chair of
Environmental Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Degrees held include a B.A. in Biological Sciences from
Oxford University, a M.Sc. in
Environmental and Resource Economics from
University College London
and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the
University of Bonn, Germany.
I am an economist working at the interface of environment and
development, specialising in 'green' issues such
as those, for example, relating to rural development and
deforestation. Typically, I apply both quantitative methods and
conceptual frameworks to analyse environmental decision-making
at the micro-level, e.g. household or village. Recent work has
focused on land use and climate change, specifically on carbon
sequestration contracts and Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), the cost-effectiveness of
policy to implement payments for environmental services (PES),
and the evolution of protected area policy under weak property
rights.
In the past, I have worked for a number of international organisations including the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) in New York, and the
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
in Indonesia. In 2009, I co-edited (with Stefanie Engel) a book
on policy to implement strategies on Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation (REDD),
Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change
(Routledge).
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Research Interests
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- Environmental and development economics
- Contracting for natural resource use
- Mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change
- Institutions and property rights
- Instruments for environmental policy
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Article:
Conservation payments under
uncertainty, Land Economics 91(1): 36-56, 2015 (with
Stefanie Engel, Luca Taschini, and Simon Urech). -
Article:
Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence,
Resource and Energy Economics 40: 107-126, 2015 (with Tim Laing).
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Working paper:
Urban development and air pollution:
evidence from a global
panel of cities, Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment Working Paper no. 175, Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC)
Discussion Paper no. 169, both December 2014 (with Christian Hilber).
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Article:
Making a difference? Accounting for non-governmental
organizations in the co-omanagement of Lore Lindu National
Park, Indonesia, Journal of Environment and
Development 23 (4): 417-445, 2014.
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Working paper:
Modelling land use, deforestation, and policy analysis: A
hybird optimization-ABM heterogeneous agent model with
application to the Bolivian Amazon, Centre for Climate
Change Economics and Policy Working Paper no. 186, Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Working Paper no. 164, September 2014 (with Lykke Andersen,
Ugur Bilge, Ben Groom, David Gutierrez, Evan Killick, Juan
Carlos Ledezma, and Diana Weinhold)
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Article:
Relaxing constraints as a conservation policy,
Environment and Development
Economics 19(4): 505-528, 2014 (with Ben Groom) -
Article:
Unveiling information on
opportunity costs in REDD: who obtains the surplus when policy
objectives differ?, Resource and Energy Economics
36(2): 508-527, 2014 (with Philippe Delacote. Riyong Kim
Bakkegaard, and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen)
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