Dietz, Simon


Dr Simon Dietz  

Department

Position held

Department of Geography and Environment

Lecturer in Environmental Policy

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Deputy Director

Experience keywords:

environmental economics; environmental awareness; environmental justice; environmental policy; sustainable development; climate change; environmental equity

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Dr Dietz's main research interests are in climate change, sustainable development, environmental equity and public attitudes towards the environment. Previous to joining LSE in 2006, Dr Dietz worked at the Treasury as a policy analyst on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Environment

Countries and regions to which research relates:

all

Languages:

Swedish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7589

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Millner, Antony and Dietz, Simon and Heal, Geoffrey (2013) Scientific ambiguity and climate policy. Environmental and resource economics, 55 (1). pp. 21-46. ISSN 0924-6460

2012

Dietz, Simon and Asheim, Geir B. (2012) Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism. Journal of environmental economics and management, 63 (3). pp. 321-335. ISSN 0095-0696

Dietz, Simon and Marchiori, Carmen and Tavoni, Alessandro (2012) Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements. Climate Change and Sustainable Development , 2012.076. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy

Dietz, Simon (2012) The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US social cost of carbon for regulatory impact analysis. Economics: the open-access, open-assessment e-journal, 6 ISSN 1864-6042

2011

Dietz, Simon (2011) From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives. In: Dryzek, John S. and Norgaard, Richard B. and Schlosberg, David, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of climate change and society. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 295-308. ISBN 9780199566600

Dietz, Simon and Asheim, Geir B. (2011) Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment working papers, 42. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Dietz, Simon (2011) The Stern Review. In: Schneider, Stephen H., (ed.) Encyclopedia of climate and weather. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199765324

Dietz, Simon and Morton, Alec (2011) Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the United Kingdom's Stern Review on the economics of climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. Risk analysis, 31 (1). pp. 129-142. ISSN 0272-4332

Dietz, Simon and Michie, Jonathon and Oughton, Christine (2011) Environmental challenges of the 21st century and the need for interdisciplinary political economy. In: Dietz, Simon and Michie, Jonathon and Oughton, Christine, (eds.) The political economy of the environment: an interdisciplinary approach. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780415437530

Dietz, Simon and Michie, Jonathon and Oughton, Christine, (eds.) (2011) The political economy of the environment: an interdisciplinary approach. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415437530

Dietz, Simon (2011) High impact, low probability?: an empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change. Climatic change, 108 (3). pp. 519-541. ISSN 0165-0009

2010

Millner, Antony and Dietz, Simon and Heal, Geoffrey (2010) Ambiguity and climate policy. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 24. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Dietz, Simon and Heal, Geoffrey and Millner, Anthony (2010) Ambiguity is another reason to mitigate climate change. Vox EU

Ranger, Nicola and Millner, Anthony and Dietz, Simon and Fankhauser, Samuel and Lopez, Ana and Ruta, Giovanni (2010) Adaptation in the UK: a decision-making process. Environment Agency, London, UK

Dietz, Simon and Atkinson, Giles (2010) The equity-efficiency trade-off in environmental policy: evidence from stated preferences. Land economics, 86 (3). pp. 423-443. ISSN 0023-7639

Dietz, Simon and Hepburn, Cameron (2010) On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 18. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Dietz, Simon and Fankhauser, Samuel (2010) Environmental prices, uncertainty, and learning. Oxford review of economic policy, 26 (2). pp. 270-284. ISSN 0266-903X

2009

Dietz, Simon (2009) From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 13. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Dietz, Simon and Fankhauser, Samuel (2009) Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 10. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Dietz, Simon and Morton, Alec (2009) Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK’s Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 5. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Dietz, Simon (2009) High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 9. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK

Sælen, Håkon and Dietz, Simon and Hepburn, Cameron and Helgeson, Jennifer and Atkinson, Giles (2009) Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change. Economics - the open-access, open-assessment e-journal, 20 (3). pp. 1-28. ISSN 1864-6042

Dietz, Simon and Maddison, David J. (2009) New frontiers in the economics of climate change. Environmental and resource economics, 43 (3). pp. 295-306. ISSN 0924-6460

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2009) Economics and the governance of sustainable development. In: Adger, W. Neil and Jordan, Andrew, (eds.) Governing sustainability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 289-312. ISBN 9780521732437

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2009) Economics and the government of sustainable development. In: Adger, W. Neil and Jordan, Andrew, (eds.) Governing sustainability . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, UK, pp. 259-282. ISBN 9780521732437

Dietz, Simon and Stern, Nicholas (2009) Note - On the timing of greenhouse gas emissions reductions: a final rejoinder to the symposium on "the economics of climate change: The Stern Review and its critics". Review of environmental economics and policy, 3 (1). pp. 138-140. ISSN 1750-6824

2008

Dietz, Simon and Morton, Alec (2008) Stern is from Mars, CoRWM is from Venus?: a comparison between the methods of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. In:Valuing Intangibles, Environment Agency (10 July 2008 : Londond, U.K.).

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2008) A critical appraisal of genuine savings as an indicator of sustainability. In: Martinez-Alier, Joan and Røpke, Inge, (eds.) Recent developments In ecological economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843767831

Dietz, Simon and Hepburn, Cameron and Stern, Nicholas (2008) Economics, ethics and climate change. In: Basu, Kaushik and Kanbur, Ravi, (eds.) Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen.. Oxford university Press, Oxford, U.K., pp. 19-20. ISBN 13: 978-0-19-923999-3

Dietz, Simon and Stern, Nicholas (2008) Why economic analysis supports strong action on climate change: a response to the Stern review's critics. Review of environmental economics and policy, 2 (1). pp. 94-113. ISSN 1750-6824

2007

Dietz, Simon (2007) Ethics, risk and the welfare economics of climate change. In:Global justice and climate change (21-22 September 2007 : Oxford).

Dietz, Simon (2007) Review of DEFRA paper: “the social cost of carbon and the shadow price of carbon: what they are, and how to use them in economic appraisal in the UK”. London School of Economics, London, U.K.

Dietz, Simon (2007) Discounting the benefits of climate-change policy: the Stern Review, its critics, and policy implications. In:Applied Environmental Economics Conference, hosted (23rd March 2007 : London U.K.).

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2007) Weak and strong sustainability in the SEEA: concepts and measurement. Ecological economics, 61 (4). pp. 617-626. ISSN 0921-8009

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric and de Soysa, Indra (2007) Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving. Environment and development economics, 12 (1). pp. 33-53. ISSN 1355-770X

Atkinson, Giles and Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2007) Introduction: handbook of sustainable development. In: Atkinson, Giles and Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric, (eds.) Handbook of sustainable development. Edward Elgar, Northampton, U.K., pp. 1-27.

Atkinson, Giles and Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric, (eds.) (2007) Handbook of sustainable development. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843765776

Atkinson, Giles and Dietz, Simon (2007) Progress in the measurement of sustainable development. In: Encyclopaedia of life support systems. EOLSS, Oxford, UK, pp. 195-222.

Dietz, Simon and Stern, Nicholas and Anderson, Dennis and Taylor, Chris and Zenghelis, Dimitri (2007) Right for the right reasons: a final rejoinder on the Stern review. World economics, 8 (2). pp. 229-258. ISSN 1468-1838

Dietz, Simon and Hope, Chris and Ranger, Nicola (2007) Some economics of 'dangerous' climate change: reflections on the Stern review. Global environmental change, 17 (3-4). pp. 311-325. ISSN 0959-3780

Dietz, Simon and Stern, Nicholas and Hope, Chris and Zenghelis, Dimitri (2007) Reflections on the Stern review (1): a robust case for strong action to reduce the risks of climate change. World economics, 8 (1). pp. 121-168. ISSN 1468-1838

Dietz, Simon (2007) The impacts of climate change: perspectives from the Stern review. The Brown journal of world affairs, 13 (2). pp. 173-184. ISSN 1080-0786

2006

Dietz, Simon (2006) On discounting non-marginal policy decisions and cost-benefit analysis of climate-change policy. In:ISEE 2006: Ninth biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (15-19th December 2006 : India Habitat Centre, Delhi, India).

Dietz, Simon and Atkinson, Giles (2006) The equity-efficiency trade-off in environmental policy: evidence of public preferences. In:Envecon 2006: Applied Environmental Economics Conference (24 March 2006 : Royal Society, London, U.K.).

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2006) Some constructive criticisms of the index of sustainable economic welfare. In: Lawn, Philip, (ed.) Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics . Edward Elgar , Cheltenham, UK , pp. 186-208. ISBN 978184542099

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2006) A critical appraisal of genuine savings as an indicator of sustainability. In: Lawn, Philip, (ed.) Sustainable development indicators in ecological economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 117-138. ISBN 9781845420994

Dietz, Simon and Bowen, Alex and Hepburn, Cameron and Hope, Chris and Ranger, Nicola and Stern, Nicholas (2006) On discounting non-marginal policy decisions and cost-benefit analysis of climate-change policy. Social Science Research Network

2005

Dietz, Simon and Atkinson, Giles (2005) Public perceptions of equity in environmental policy: traffic emissions policy in an English urban area. Local environment, 10 (4). pp. 445-459. ISSN 1354-9839

Neumayer, Eric and Dietz, Simon (2005) What is the appropriate role for economics in sustainable governance? In:“The Governance of Sustainability" An International Research Conference (23-24 June : University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.).

2004

Dietz, Simon and Neumayer, Eric (2004) Genuine savings: a critical analysis of its policy-guiding value. International journal of environment and sustainable development, 3 (3/4). pp. 276-292. ISSN 1474-6778

2003

Dietz, Simon and Adger, W. Neil (2003) Economic growth, biodiversity loss and conservation effort. Journal of environmental management, 68 (1). pp. 23-35. ISSN 0301-4797

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