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Dr Richard Perkins

Telephone

020 7955 7605

Email

r.m.perkins@lse.ac.uk

Room No

CKK 4.13

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Languages

English

Key Expertise

Environmental policy, Governing climate change, Sustainable finance, CSR

About me

Dr Richard Perkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. Richard’s research interests focus on the governance of climate and environmental change by both public and private actors. His most recent work is concerned with interrogating sustainable/green finance.

He is Programme Director of the MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation.

Richard holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

Expertise Details

Environmental policy; Governing climate change; Sustainable finance; CSR

Perkins, Richard and Nachmany, Michal (2019) A very human business – transnational networking initiatives and domestic climate action. Global Environmental Change, 54. pp. 250-259.
'Post-decisional logics of inaction: The influence of knowledge controversy in climate policy decision-making' (with Amelia Sharman), Environment and Planning A, 2017 0(0) 1-19.
'Does learning matter for policy outcomes? The case of integrating climate finance into the EU budget’ (with Katharina Rietig), Journal of European Public Policy, forthcoming.
'Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: Evidence from automobile patents’ (with Antoine Dechezlepretre and Eric Neumayer), Research Policy, 2015, 44 (1): 244-257.
Perkins, Richard (2013) Sustainable development and the making and unmaking of a developing world. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31 (6). pp. 1003-1022. ISSN 0263-774X .

‘Does the ‘California effect’ operate across borders? Trading- and investing-up in automobile emission standards’ (with Eric Neumayer), Journal of European Public Policy, 2012, 19 (2): 217-237.

'Geographic variations in the early diffusion of corporate voluntary standards: Comparing ISO14001 and the Global Compact' (with Eric Neumayer), Environment and Planning A, 2010, 42 (2): 347-365.

'Globalizing corporate environmentalism? Convergence and heterogeneity in Indian industry', Studies in Comparative International Development, 2007, 42 (3): 279-309.

'The international diffusion of new technologies: A multitechnology analysis of latecomer advantage and global economic integration' (with Eric Neumayer), Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2005, 95 (4): 789-808.

'Environmental leapfrogging in developing countries: A critical assessment and reconstruction', Natural Resources Forum, 2003, 27 (3): 177-188.

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