Climate and Environmental Economics

Background:

The research cluster of Climate and Environmental Economics is recently established in Nov 2024. This webpage provides some essential information at the moment, and more information will be added in the future.

Our Members

Academics at Reading:

Doctoral Researchers:

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

Publications

  • Abraham, D., Glejtková, K., & Krčál, O. Forthcoming in 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     
  • 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 Analysis96, 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 
  •  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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