LSE researchers working on environmental policy and governance

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Dr Giles Atkinson - is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography and Environment and a Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance (CEPG). An environmental economist by training, his research interests cover the measurement of sustainable development particularly through green national accounting, environmental cost-benefit analysis and environmental equity. Giles is a member of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Environmental Economics Academic Panel and a member of the Advisory Board of the Green Indian States Trust (GIST).
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Contact details: Room S513, g.atkinson@lse.ac.uk

Dr Guatam Appa - Department of Operational Research
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Contact details: g.appa@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Julia Black is Professor of Law at LSE. Her primary research interest is regulation. She has written extensively in the area, and also advised policy makers, consumer bodies and regulators on issues of institutional design and regulatory policy. She is also a research associate of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), based at LSE. Together with Professor Robert Baldwin she has jointly authored report for Defra on enforcement: A Review of Enforcement Measures (2005) and a recent article entitled, Really Responsive Regulation (2008) 71(1) Modern Law Review 59-94.
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Professor Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy in STICERD. His other roles include: Director, Development Economics Program, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Senior Fellow, Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD); Fellow, European Development Research Network (EUDN); Member, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD); Associate Editor, Economic Journal (EJ); and Co-organiser, LSE/UCL Development and Growth Seminar Series.
His research interests are in: Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics.
Contact details: Room R524, Department of Economics and STICERD. Homepage
E-mail: r.burgess@lse.ac.uk; Tel: (0)20-7955-6676; Fax: (0)20-7955-6951.
PA: Leila Alberici, Tel: (0)20-7955-6674, E-mail: l.alberici@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Simon Dietz is lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment. He joined the LSE in 2006. Previously he worked at the UK Treasury, as an economic adviser on the ‘Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change’. Simon holds a starred first class honours degree in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia, and Masters and PhD degrees from the LSE, specialising in environmental policy and economics. Much of his current research focuses on the economics of climate change, and he has recently authored a number of papers on the question of whether economic analysis can support strong action on climate change.
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Contact details: 020 7955 7589, s.dietz@lse.ac.uk

Professor Tim Dyson FBA is Professor of Population Studies in the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN). Research interests include: India's population and demography—past, present and future; world food and agricultural prospects; the causes and consequences of famines; the demographic basis of world development since the late eighteenth century; urban growth and urbanization; climate change; causation in demography; HIV/AIDS.
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Contact details: 020 7955 7662, t.dyson@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Robert Falkner is Lecturer in International Relations at the LSE and an associate fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House. His research on global environmental issues focuses in particular on risk regulation in bio- and nanotechnologies, institutions and processes of global governance, and the role of the corporate sector.
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Contact details: 020 7955 6347, r.falkner@lse.ac.uk
 

Forsyth, Tim (Dr) - Development Studies Institute
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Contact details: 020 7955 6836, t.j.forsyth@lse.ac.uk

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Lyn Grove is Centre Manager of CEPG as well as of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS). She is also the administration manager of the new LSE Climate Network.
Contact details: Columbia House, Room B706. Tel: (0)20 7955 6015. Email

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Dr Veerle Heyvaert - Department of Law
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Contact details: 020 7955 6492, v.heyvaert@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Michael Mason is Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance and Director of the LSE/Alcoa Foundation Conservation and Sustainability Programme (based at CEPG). His research interests centre on environmental politics and governance, particularly at the global scale. Dr Mason also coordinates LSE research input into the Energy, Water and Environment Community project – an international, interdisciplinary network addressing environmental cooperation in the Middle East.
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Contact details: 020 7955 6175, m.mason@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Eric Neumayer joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 1998. Before he was an academic assistant at the Centre for Law and Economics at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany. An economist by training, he is the co-editor of  Handbook of Sustainable Development (with Giles Atkinson and Simon Dietz. Edward Elgar, 2007), the author of Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms (Edward Elgar, 1999-- Revised Edition 2003), Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection Without Protectionism (Earthscan, 2001) and The Pattern of Aid Giving - The Impact of Good Governance on Development Assistance (Routledge 2003), as well as numerous journal articles. His teaching focuses on neoclassical environmental and ecological economics. Research interests: General interest: Evidence-based public policy-making; Economic and human development; Conflict and violence; Globalisation; Migration; Sustainable development; Environmental commitment and performance; Quantitative methods.
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Contact details: 020 7955 7598, e.neumayer@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Richard Perkins is Lecturer in Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment. His research interests focus on three keys areas: (a) the cross-border transfer and diffusion of environmentally-superior innovations and performances; (b) the emerging dynamics of corporate environmentalism, with a particular focus on industrialising countries; and (c) the implementation of environmental policy innovations.
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Contact details: 020 7955 7605, r.m.perkins@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Judith Rees is Professor of Environmental and Resources Management in the Department of Geography and Environment. She was a Deputy Director of the LSE from 1998-2004. She has acted as an advisor to the World Bank on water privatisation, regulation and pricing and to a number of national governments on institutional design and regulatory regimes. She has been on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership since 1996 and is currently a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation. Since August 2004 she has been a member of the central Council of the ESRC.
Her key research interests focus on the governance of environmental resources and risk, including institutional design, public-private partnerships regulation and use of market mechanisms, with specific interest in the water sector
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Contact details: 020 7955 6228, j.rees@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Margot Salomon is a Lecturer in Law at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Law. She has served as Advisor to the United Nations High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development since its inception in 2004 and is a member of the Working Group on Human Rights and Development of the Association of Human Rights Institutes under its programme on Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy. In 2007 she was appointed to the International Law Association’s Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Dr Salomon’s research interests include the legal dimensions of world poverty, in particular, the scope and application of obligations of international cooperation and external state responsibility, global governance and accountability, and the interface between human rights and economic development. Her forthcoming research under the LSE’s ESRC grant will look at human rights dimensions of climate change. Dr Salomon’s most recent publications are Global Responsibility for Human Rights: World Poverty and the Development of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2007); Margot E. Salomon, Arne Tostensen and Wouter Vandenhole (eds), Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers (Intersentia, 2007).
 

Professor Lenny Smith, Director of CATS, is Professor in Statistics at LSE and Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke  College, Oxford. He obtained a PhD in Physics at Columbia University (USA) in 1987. He has held grants funded by many bodies including ONR (US Office of Naval Research) and NOAA (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) as well as the European Commission and UK Research Councils. Two successful projects - DIME and REMIND – were funded under the UK EPSRC Maths Faraday programme, and a current project NAPSTER (Nonlinear Analysis and Prediction Statistics from Time Series and Ensemble forecast Realizations) is a UK NERC Knowledge Transfer grant. Professor Smith was active in the formation of strategy for THORPEX (he was co-author of the Socio-Economic Impacts Chapter). In recognition of his mathematically-coherent user-relevant contributions, the Royal Meteorological Society awarded Professor Smith its Fitzroy Prize.
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Lord Stern, Nicholas (Professor), IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government.
Professor Stern is the first holder of the IG Patel Chair and also directs the Asia Research Centre and the India Observatory. He was Chief Economist of the World Bank (2000-2003), then Head of the UK Government Economic Service and led a Review of the Economics of Climate Change which was published in October 2006.
Contact details: n.stern@lse.ac.uk (via Personal Assistant k.quirk@lse.ac.uk)

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Mr James Van Alstine is LSE Fellow within the Department of Geography and Environment and is a writer, editor and team leader for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin at United Nations negotiations on sustainable development and oceans policy. He joined the LSE in 2004. His research on multi-scale governance focuses in particular on the social and environmental risks of industrial development, the governance of resource extraction in developing countries, and institutional and organisational theory. He is currently completing his PhD on corporate environmentalism in the South African petrochemical industry and holds an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from LSE and a BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University.
Contact details: +44 (0)20 7955 6720, j.van-alstine@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Diana Weinhold - Development Studies Institute (DESTIN).
Diana Weinhold is an applied econometrician with diverse research interests in econometrics, growth and development, trade, and environmental economics. She completed her PhD at UC-San Diego under the supervision of Clive Granger and Jim Rauch. Since 1994 she has been involved in a joint empirical research effort to study the economics of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. Her current focus in this context is a study of the socio-economic and land-use implications of the exponential growth of soy bean production in the Amazon.
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Contact details: 020 7955 6331, d.weinhold@lse.ac.uk