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A Critical Perspective on Economy, Modernity and Temporality in Contemporary Greece through the Prism of Energy Practice
Knight, Daniel M.Knight - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping … strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high …-modernity, and pre-Europeanization. Energy practice provides a prism through which to discuss increased social suffering and reassess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735154
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EU energy policy and regional co-operation in South-East Europe: managing energy security through diversification of supply?
Bozhilova, Diana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents … an analysis of developments in EU energy policy given the ongoing realignment of strategic interest. It outlines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884517
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A critical perspective on economy, modernity and temporality in contemporary Greece through the prism of energy practice
Knight, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping … strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high …-modernity, and pre-Europeanization. Energy practice provides a prism through which to discuss increased social suffering and reassess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884697
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EU Energy Policy and Regional Co-operation in South-East Europe: managing energy security through diversification of supply?
Bozhilova, Diana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents … an analysis of developments in EU energy policy given the ongoing realignment of strategic interest. It outlines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991165
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Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence
Laing, Timothy; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
National-level strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), financed by international transfers, have begun to emerge. A three-sector model is developed to explore the economy-wide effects of two policies implemented by a government participating in REDD that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257686
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Why is the US so energy intensive?: evidence from US multinationals in the UK
Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
is mirrored by the high energy intensity of all sectors of the US economy including manufacturing industries. A potential … explanation for the higher energy intensity is lower US energy price levels. However, common price elasticity estimates are not … out locational differences. The findings are that on average US firms are not more energy intensive when operating in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744908
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Environmental policy and the economic downturn
Bowen, Alex; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change. The arguments for and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744909
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On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis
Dietz, Simon; Hepburn, Cameron - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Conventional cost-benefit analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is marginal in the sense that it will not significantly change relative prices. In particular, it is assumed that the policy or project does not change the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744993
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Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: a global analysis
Neumayer, Eric; Barthel, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and/or intensity of certain types of natural hazards, if not globally, then at least in certain regions. All other things equal, this should lead to an increase in the economic toll from natural disasters over time. Yet, all other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745405
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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is contro-versial, both due to the conditions through which it is justifed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745973