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National Ranking
756

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Andy Gouldson is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has a research focus within social sciences and environmental science. Their work spans several subfields, notably transportation, global and planetary change, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and sociology and political science.

Their research topics cover a range of themes including climate change and health impacts, sustainable building design and assessment, sustainability and climate change governance, climate change communication and perception, energy, environment, and transportation policies, energy efficiency and management, and environmental impact and sustainability.

They have published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Climate Policy
  • Elsevier eBooks

Recent publications include:

  • Integration of mitigation and adaptation in urban climate change action plans in Europe: A systematic assessment, 2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19, 2020, Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Reviewing the scope and thematic focus of 100 000 publications on energy consumption, services and social aspects of climate change: a big data approach to demand-side mitigation, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Supportive governance for city-scale low carbon building retrofits: a case study from Shanghai, 2021, Climate Policy
  • The social, environmental, health, and economic impacts of low carbon transport policy: A review of the evidence, 2020, Elsevier eBooks

Frequent co-authors include Andrew Sudmant, Lucy Oates, Vincent Viguié, Quentin Lepetit, and Candice Howarth.

Best Publications

  • Environmental management & business strategy.

    R. Welford;A. Gouldson

  • Environmental policy and industrial innovation: integrating environment and economy through ecological modernisation

    Joseph Murphy;Andrew Gouldson

  • Environmental Management and Business Strategy

    Richard Welford;Andrew Gouldson

  • Transformational responses to climate change: beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation

    Ross Gillard;Andrew Gouldson;Jouni Paavola;James Van Alstine

  • Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation

    Andrew Gouldson;Joseph E. Murphy

  • Interplay of actors, scales, frameworks and regimes in the governance of biodiversity

    Jouni Paavola;Andrew Gouldson;Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská

  • Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future?

    Stavros Afionis;Marco Sakai;Kate Scott;John Barrett

  • Does voluntary carbon reporting meet investors' needs?

    Rory Sullivan;Andy Gouldson

  • Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: A Critical Analysis

    Ian Bailey;Andy Gouldson;Peter Newell

  • Integration of mitigation and adaptation in urban climate change action plans in Europe: A systematic assessment

    Stelios Grafakos;G. Viero;D. Reckien;Kate Trigg

  • Are corporate carbon management practices reducing corporate carbon emissions

    Baran Doda;Caterina Gennaioli;Andy Gouldson;David Grover

  • Ecological modernization and the European Union

    Andrew Gouldson;Joseph Murphy

  • Ecological Modernisation: Restructuring Industrial Economies

    Andrew Gouldson;Joseph Murphy

  • Cities and climate change mitigation: Economic opportunities and governance challenges in Asia

    Andy Gouldson;Sarah Colenbrander;Andrew Sudmant;Effie Papargyropoulou

  • The role of intermediaries in low carbon transitions – Empowering innovations to unlock district heating in the UK

    Ruth E. Bush;Catherine S.E. Bale;Mark Powell;Andy Gouldson

  • The Governance of Corporate Responses to Climate Change: An International Comparison

    Rory Sullivan;Andy Gouldson

  • Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19.

    Candice Howarth;Peter Bryant;Adam Corner;Samuel Fankhauser

  • Corporations and the Governance of Environmental Risk

    Andrew Gouldson;Jan Bebbington

  • Unseen influence-The role of low carbon retrofit advisers and installers in the adoption and use of domestic energy technology

    A. Owen;G. Mitchell;A. Gouldson;A. Gouldson

  • Greener Skills and Jobs

    Nick Jagger;Tim Foxon;Andy Gouldson

Frequent Co-Authors

John Barrett
John Barrett University of Leeds
Timothy J. Foxon
Timothy J. Foxon University of Sussex
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Jouni Paavola
Jouni Paavola University of Leeds
Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog Örebro University
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds
Bo Zheng
Bo Zheng Tsinghua University
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Peking University
Evan D. G. Fraser
Evan D. G. Fraser University of Guelph
Chaopeng Hong
Chaopeng Hong Tsinghua University

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