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Title
Professor of Environment and Development and Head of the Department of Geography and Environment
Departments
Department of Geography and Environment
Biography
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; Second Revised Edition 2003; Third Revised Edition 2010), 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
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General interest: Evidence-based public policy-making
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Economic and human development
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Conflict and violence
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Globalisation
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Migration
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Sustainable development
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Environmental commitment and performance
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Quantitative methods
Selected recent publications
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'The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The impact of catastrophic events on the gender gap in life expectancy, 1981-2002' (with Thomas Plümper), Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 97 (3), 2007, pp. 551-566 (pdf)
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'International Technological Diffusion, Latecomer Advantage and Economic Globalization: A multi-technology analysis' (with Richard Perkins), Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 95 (4), 2005, pp. 789-808 (pdf)
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Extra-territorial interventions in conflict spaces: Explaining the geographies of post-Cold War peacekeeping (with Richard Perkins), Political Geography, 27 (8), 2008, pp. 895-914 (pdf)
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'Unequal Access to Foreign Spaces: How states use visa restrictions to regulate mobility in a globalised world', Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers, 31 (1), 2006, pp. 72-84 (pdf)
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Contact details
E-mail: e.neumayer@lse.ac.uk|
Fax: [44] (0)20 7955 7412
Room: S503, St Clement's Building, LSE