We approach questions about Sustainability, Environmental Economics and Environmental Justice from multi-disciplinary perspectives broadly organised under the themes of: 1) environmental policy and economics and 2) human geographies of environmental governance and change.
First, together with LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, our department hosts one of the world's largest and most well-known research groups dedicated to environmental and climate economics and policy. We have expertise and interests in a wide range of environmental/sustainability issues, including climate change, natural capital, green innovation, energy/electricity markets, biodiversity, forest conservation, air pollution, and sustainable finance/corporate sustainability. We apply a range of state-of-the-art methods including econometrics/statistics, field/lab experiments, stated-preference surveys, dynamic optimization/programming, machine learning, input-output and computable general equilibrium modelling.
Second, we conduct research to understand how historical and contemporary political and economic inequality both shape and are shaped by nature and by unequal global geographies of empire, development, and racial capitalism. This includes investigating how existing inequalities shape the unequal vulnerability to climate change, as well as the unequal distribution of risks and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Under this broad topic, we have expertise in a wide range of topics including environmental security, urban and agrarian environmental justice, waste, and climate change adaptation.
Key research areas
Biodiversity and Forest Conservation
Energy and Electricity Markets
Economics of Air Pollution
Natural Capital and Sustainable Wealth Accounting
Sustainable Finance and Corporate Sustainability
Critical Environmental Geographies
Social Life of Climate Change
Experts
Stephen Jarvis
Assistant Professor in Environmental Resource Economics
Sefi Roth
Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics
Thomas Smith
Associate Professor (Education) in Environmental Geography
Related research centres and units
Our experts work closely with LSE's world-leading research centres. These include:
Related research seminars
We organise expert-led research seminars that take place throughout the year. Many are open to the public. These include: