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Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …

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Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty

Engel, Stefanie; Palmer, Charles; Taschini, Luca; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Given that REDD will not represent a …

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Reflections on the nature and policy implications of planning restrictions on housing supply. Discussion of 'Planning policy, planning practice, and housing supply' by Kate Barker

Cheshire, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Planning is about other things as well, but it is fundamentally an economic activity. It allocates a scarce resource but independently of prices or any market information. In analysing the effects this allocative mechanism has on housing supply (or, indeed, the supply of buildings for any given...

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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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The impacts of climate change levy on business: evidence from microdata

Martin, Ralf; de Preux, Laure B.; Wagner, Ulrich J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

that exploits exogenous variation in pollution discharges that determined eligibility for CCA participation. We find robust …

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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

At present the USA is - in per capita terms - the top greenhouse gas polluter among the world’s major economies. This 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...

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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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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...

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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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Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: a global analysis

Barthel, Fabian; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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...

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