Climate and Environmental Economics

Background:

The research cluster of Climate and Environmental Economics is recently established in Nov 2024. Our members are doing research on economics a number of climate-related topics.

Our Members

Academics at Reading:

Doctoral Researchers:

  • Albert Chongo 
  • Sonia Jan Alam
  • Okiemua Okoror 
  • Lena-Katharina Gerdes 
  • Akbar N Dachlan 
  • Weeam Amira 

Publications

  • Mahadeo, S., Seenath, A. (2026). Macro-level indicators of household and ambient air pollution mortality risk: global evidence. Social Science and Medicine, 391: 118921
  • Abraham, D., Glejtková, K., & Krčál, O. (2025). The hidden costs of imposing minimum contributions to a global public good. Ecological Economics, 227, 108346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108346
  • Seenath, A. , Mahadeo, S., Catterson, J. (2025) Public perceptions of nature-based coastal solutions in the UK. Journal of Environmental Management , 373 ISSN: 0301-4797 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123413
  • Seenath, A. , Mahadeo, S.  , Blackett, M. (2025) Decision-making under flood predictions: a risk perception study of coastal real estate. Risk Analysis , 45 (7). pp. 1899-1925. ISSN: 1539-6924 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/risa.17706     
  • Lazar, E., Pan, J., & Wang, S. (2024). Measuring climate-related and environmental risks for equities. Journal of Environmental Management. 
  • Hu, H., Lazar, E., Pan, J., & Wang, S. (2024). Environmental performance and credit ratings: a transatlantic study. International Review of Financial Analysis, 96, 103635. 
  • Lovo, S. and Rawlings, S. (2024) The health burden of e-waste: the impact of e-waste dumping sites on child mortality. The World Bank Economic Review ISSN: 1564-698X 
  • Mahadeo, S. (2024) Environmentally clean and dirty energy equities during extraordinary global conditions. Journal of Environmental Management , 368 ISSN: 0301-4797 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122227
  •  Rampa, A. and Lovo, S.  (2023) Revisiting the effects of the Ethiopian land tenure reform using satellite data. A focus on agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation. World Development, 171 ISSN: 1873-5991 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106364 
  •  He, P.,Lovo, S., Veronesi, M. (2022) Social networks and renewable energy technology adoption: empirical evidence from biogas adoption in China. Energy Economics, 106 ISSN: 0140-9883 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105789 
  •  Alesina, A., Gennaioli, C., Lovo, S.  (2019) Public goods and ethnic diversity: evidence from deforestation in Indonesia. Economica, 86 (341). pp. 32-66. ISSN: 1468-0335 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12285 
  •  Kattumuri, R. and Lovo, S.  (2018) Decentralization of environmental regulation in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (43). pp. 33-38. ISSN: 2349-8846 
  •  Sato, M., Singer, G., Dussaux, D., Lovo, S.  (2018) International and sectoral variation in industrial energy prices 1995-2015. Energy Economics, 78 pp. 235-258. ISSN: 0140-9883 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.11.008 
  •  Lovo, S.  (2018) The effect of environmental decentralization on polluting firms in India. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67 (1). pp. 55-94. ISSN: 1539-2988 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/697558 
  •  Bezabih, M. , Lovo, S.  , Singer, G. , McLaren, C. (2016) Climate-resilient development in agrarian economies. In: Fankhauser, S. and McDermott, T. , (eds.) The Economics of Climate-Resilient Development. Edward Elgar publishing ISBN: 9781785360305 doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785360312 
  •  Lovo, S.  (2016) Tenure insecurity and investment in soil conservation: evidence from Malawi. World Development , 78 pp. 219-229. ISSN: 0305-750X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.023 

News

  • Two round tables with Ministry of the Environment – Department of Climate change of Nigeria to discuss Climate change and gender issues, see details here.
  • Workshop on food system dependencies: Stefania Lovo co-organised a workshop in collaboration with WWF–UK and LSE Consulting on  “Dependencies of Food System Transformation in the Wider Economy and Society” on 2nd December 2019. The workshop featured Prof Sam Fankhauser (GRI, LSE), Dr Max Parra (ODI) and Dr Jeremy Brice (Sociology, LSE) as expert panelists. 

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