Julius Andersson
Julius’ research focuses on the link between food production/consumption and climate change, specifically the environmental and welfare effects of greenhouse gas taxation of food products. Background Julius has an MSc … read more »
Topic: Climate justice and ethics
Aaron Wu
Aaron’s current research focus is on international environmental law and critical legal studies. Background Aaron holds BCom and LLB degrees with Honours from the University of Adelaide, and an LLM … read more »
Taming the beasts of ‘burden-sharing’: an analysis of equitable mitigation actions and approaches to 2030 mitigation pledges
Countries are now seeking to reach a new international agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015. A key element of the international negotiations … read more »
Resolving intertemporal conflicts: Economics vs. Politics
Intertemporal conflicts occur when a group of agents with heterogeneous time preferences must make a collective decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We … read more »
Ara Jo
Ara’s research will be related to the issues of environmental migration and adaptation to climate change. Background Ara did an MA in Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada … read more »
GDP (Gathering Different Preferences) – Old acronym, a fresh interpretation?
Original article posted on UNDP Human Development Reports Imagine for a moment that you are a baker. Now what would be on your list of essentials for an ultimate, everyday … read more »
Combining nexus and resilience thinking in a novel framework to enable more equitable and just outcomes
Resilience and nexus thinking are often applied separately to investigate social-ecological systems (SES), wherein both approaches are critiqued for a lack of explicit focus on issues of justice and equity. This paper synthesises the main strengths and shortcomings of these approaches, before drawing on resilience and nexus strengths to present a novel, integrated framework to […]
Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis
Shale gas has become an energy policy priority in the United Kingdom in light of profitable extraction activities in the United States. Since 2012 the Coalition Government has created key economic drivers to encourage shale exploration, whilst growing activism in affected site communities has stirred significant media and academic commentary. This study examines the growing […]
Cancel developing countries’ debt in exchange for climate change action
The Guardian. 26 September 2014.
Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
We model how heterogeneous beliefs about the uncertain consequences of long-run policy choices affect the incentives of incumbent governments. read more »