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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...

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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...

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Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning

Dietz, Simon; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is an increasing demand for putting a shadow price on the environment to guide public policy and incentivise private behaviour. In practice, setting that price can be extremely difficult as uncertainties abound. There is often uncertainty not just about individual parameters but about the...

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Ambiguity and climate policy

Millner, Antony; Dietz, Simon; Heal, Geoffrey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Economic evaluation of climate policy traditionally treats uncertainty by appealing to expected utility theory. Yet our knowledge of the impacts of climate policy may not be of sufficient quality to justify probabilistic beliefs. In such circumstances, it has been argued that the axioms of...

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Environmental prices, uncertainty, and learning

Dietz, Simon; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

There is an increasing demand for putting a shadow price on the environment to guide public policy and incentivize private behaviour. In practice, setting that price can be extremely difficult as uncertainties abound. There is often uncertainty not just about individual parameters but about the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126224

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...

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Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?

Fankhauser, Samuel; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Poor countries are more heavily affected by extreme weather events and future climate change than rich countries. One of the reasons for this is the so-called adaptation deficit, that is, limits in the ability of poorer countries to adapt. This paper analyses the link between income and...

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Spending adaptation money wisely

Fankhauser, Samuel; Burton, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The discussions about adaptation finance have mostly been about process: how money should be raised and how adaptation spending should be governed and monitored. This paper seeks to move the focus of the debate back towards the substance of adaptation by asking what “good adaptation” in...

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Emerging markets and climate change: Mexican standoff or low-carbon race?

Frame, David J.; Hepburn, Cameron - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Schelling (1995) stressed the importance of correctly disaggregating the impacts of climate change to understand how individual interests differ across space and time. This paper considers equity implications at a level of disaggregation which we consider insightful, but which is non-standard in...

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Public opinion and the crisis: the dynamics of support for the euro

Hobolt, Sara B.; Wratil, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

and the subsequent euro area crisis have amplified both the salience and the redistributive consequences of decisions …Further integration in the European Union (EU) increasingly depends on public legitimacy. The global financial crisis … contribution, we examine how public opinion has responded to the crisis, focusing on support for monetary integration …

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