2026 Clive L. Spash: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	48	1498	1337	7	7	208	12112

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Clive L. Spash is affiliated with the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. Their research primarily spans environmental science, with a focus on economics and econometrics as well as policy and law related to environmental issues.

Their published work covers a range of topics including sustainable development and environmental policy, economic theory and institutions, global energy and sustainability research, climate change policy and economics, climate change and geoengineering, environmental philosophy and ethics, and political economy and Marxism.

Recent papers authored by Spash include the following:

'The economy' as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis, 2020, Globalizations
Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution, 2020, Globalizations
The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics, 2021, Globalizations

Other notable recent papers in the broader field where they contributed or collaborated include:

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation, 2021, Sustainability Science Practice and Policy

Spash has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

Tone Smith
Frédéric Hache
Adrien Guisan
Isak Stoddard
Kevin Anderson

Publication venues where this researcher has been active include Environmental Values, Globalizations, ePubWU Institutional Repository (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), Manchester University Press eBooks, and Biological Conservation.

Clive L. Spash also has contributions to books, notably having published "Foundations of social ecological economics" in 2024 through Winchester University Press.

Best Publications

Cost-benefit analysis and the environment

Nick D. Hanley;Clive L. Spash

2443
Citations
Preferences, information and biodiversity preservation

Clive L. Spash;Nick Hanley

600
Citations
Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Isak Stoddard;Kevin Anderson;Kevin Anderson;Stuart Capstick;Wim Carton

497
Citations
The Brave New World of Carbon Trading

Clive L. Spash

371
Citations
Motives behind willingness to pay for improving biodiversity in a water ecosystem: Economics, ethics and social psychology

Clive L. Spash;Kevin Urama;Rob Burton;Wendy Kenyon

347
Citations
Transferring environmental value estimates: Issues and alternatives

Clive L. Spash;Arild Vatn

299
Citations
Ecosystems, contingent valuation and ethics: the case of wetland re-creation

Clive L Spash

299
Citations
Deliberative monetary valuation (DMV): Issues in combining economic and political processes to value environmental change

Clive L. Spash

295
Citations
The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics

Clive L. Spash

245
Citations
New foundations for ecological economics

Clive L. Spash;Clive L. Spash

244
Citations
How Much is that Ecosystem in the Window? The One with the Bio-diverse Trail

Clive L. Spash

244
Citations
Ethics and environmental attitudes with implications for economic valuation

Clive L. Spash

239
Citations
Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics

Clive L. Spash

221
Citations
The shallow or the deep ecological economics movement

Clive L. Spash

221
Citations
Bulldozing biodiversity: The economics of offsets and trading-in Nature

Clive L. Spash

204
Citations
Conceptions of value in environmental decision-making

John O'Neill;C. Spash

197
Citations
Environmental Valuation Analysis, Public Deliberation, and their Pragmatic Syntheses: A Critical Appraisal

Simon Niemeyer;Clive L Spash

187
Citations
Non-Economic Motivation for Contingent Values: Rights and Attitudinal Beliefs in the Willingness To Pay for Environmental Improvements

Clive L. Spash

186
Citations
DELIBERATIVE MONETARY VALUATION: IN SEARCH OF A DEMOCRATIC AND VALUE PLURAL APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Alex Y. Lo;Clive L. Spash

181
Citations
Deliberative Monetary Valuation and the Evidence for a New Value Theory

Clive L. Spash

172
Citations
Informing and forming preferences in environmental valuation: Coral reef biodiversity

Clive Laurenece Spash;Clive Laurenece Spash

168
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Hanley University of Glasgow

Alex Y. Lo Victoria University of Wellington

Heinz Schandl Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Lucia A. Reisch Copenhagen Business School

Sigrid Stagl Vienna University of Economics and Business

Arild Vatn Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Simon Duncan University of Bradford

Bruno S. Frey University of Basel

Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia

Mark van Vugt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External Links

Personal website of Clive L. Spash

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