Title
Lecturer in Environment and Development
Departments
Department of Geography and Environment
Biography
Charles Palmer joined the Department of Geography and Environment as a Lecturer in September 2009. Previously he was a Senior Researcher at the Chair of Environmental Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Oxford University, a M.Sc. in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. He primarily works in the fields of environmental and development economics, has published widely, and has worked for a number of international organisations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York, and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia. In 2009, he co-edited (with Stefanie Engel) a book on policy to implement strategies on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change (Routledge).
Research interests and areas of supervision
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Environmental and development economics
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Contracting for natural resource use
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Mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change
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Institutions and property rights
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Instruments for environmental policy
Selected recent publications
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'Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration', Oxford Economic Papers, (with Ian A. MacKenzie and Markus Ohndorf), forthcoming.
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'Complexities of decentralization in a globalizing world', Environmental and Resource Economics 50 (2): 157-74, (with Stefanie Engel), 2011.
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'REDD+: Property Rights and Liability', Science 328 (5982): 1105, 2010.
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'Cost-Effective Provision of Environmental Services: The role of relaxing market constraints', Environment and Development Economics 15 (2): 219-40, (with Ben Groom), 2010.
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Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change, Routledge, Oxford, (with Stefanie Engel), 2009.
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'For Better or for Worse? Local impacts from the decentralization of Indonesia's forest sector', World Development 35 (12): 2131-49, (with Stefanie Engel), 2007.
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'Community-Industry Contracting Over Natural Resource Use in a Context of Weak Property Rights: The case of Indonesia', Environmental and Resource Economics 33 (1): 73-93, (with Stefanie Engel and Ramon López), 2006.
Contact details
E-mail: c.palmer1@lse.ac.uk|
Tel: [44] (0)20 7107 5093
Fax:[44] (0) 20 7955 7412
Room: K205, St Clement's Building, LSE