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Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)
There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ...
Pharaoh´s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
(2019-11)
What explains the origins and survival of the first states around five thousand years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of productivity shocks for early state development in a single region: ancient Egypt. We ...
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances
(2011-05)
A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the ...
Cooperation and paradoxes in climate economics
(2015-03-04)
Paper I: Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The Role of Innovation. This paper uses a dynamic game to investigate the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a coalition of resource consumers and ...
Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution: Policies in Sweden
(2012-04)
In this paper, we explore the synergies and tradeoffs between abatement of global and local pollution. We built a unique dataset of Swedish heat and power plants with detailed boiler-level data 2001-2009 on not only ...
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)
By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing
rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not
rank the rule favoring their own ...
Bio-economics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries
(2010-02-15)
Improvement in soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits to farmers as well as sequester carbon emissions, which is a positive externality to society. Leaving ...
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability and Its Implications for Household Nutrition in Kenya
(2017-06)
Climate change and variability are affecting weather patterns and causing seasonal shifts with
serious repercussions for households and communities in Kenya. The livelihoods of the majority of
Kenyans are therefore ...
The Effect of EU-ETS on Swedish Industry's Investment in Carbon Mitigating Technologies
(2013-04)
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. It covers about 12000 installations, representing approximately 45% of EU emissions of CO2, with the ...
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances
(2011-05)
A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the ...