2026 Giles Atkinson: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	36	6332	5884	1023	951	111	13462

Overview

Giles Atkinson is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting domains, focused primarily on economics, econometrics, finance, and environmental science. Their work integrates approaches from economics and environmental science with an emphasis on sustainability and policy analysis.

The scientist has contributed to multiple fields and subfields of study, including:

Economics and Econometrics
Global and Planetary Change
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Water Science and Technology

Key research topics addressed in their work are:

Economic and Environmental Valuation
Climate Change Policy and Economics
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Global Energy and Sustainability Research
Environmental Education and Sustainability
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Their recent publications include:

"Understanding public support for international climate adaptation payments: Evidence from a choice experiment," 2022, published in Ecological Economics
"Distributional Issues in Natural Capital Accounting: An Application to Land Ownership and Ecosystem Services in Scotland," 2021, published in Environmental and Resource Economics
"Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the United Kingdom," 2021, published in Annual Review of Resource Economics
"Climate change and food security: Assessing the prospect for Kuwait using an economywide model," 2022, published in Kuwait Journal of Science
"Sustaining wealth: Simulating a sovereign wealth fund for the UK's oil and gas resources, past and future," 2020, published in Energy Policy

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Joseph E. Aldy
Matthew J. Kotchen
Tobias Kruse
Paola Ovando
Ayele Gelan

Publication venues where they have appeared most frequently are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Ecological Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics
Annual Review of Resource Economics
Kuwait Journal of Science

Best Publications

Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development: an indicator of “weak” sustainability

David W. Pearce;Giles D. Atkinson

1851
Citations
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments

Ian J. Bateman;Ian J. Bateman;Ian J. Bateman;Georgina M. Mace;Carlo Fezzi;Giles Atkinson

1660
Citations
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Recent Developments

David w Pearce;Giles Atkinson;Susana Mourato

1468
Citations
Savings, Growth and the Resource Curse Hypothesis

Giles Atkinson;Kirk Hamilton

871
Citations
Measuring Sustainable Development: Macroeconomics and the Environment

Giles Atkinson;Richard Dubourg;Kirk Hamilton;Mohan Munasinghe

804
Citations
Measuring Corporate Sustainability

Giles Atkinson

614
Citations
Measuring Sustainable Development

Giles Atkinson;Richard Dubourg;Kirk Hamilton;Mohan Munasinghe

580
Citations
Measuring sustainable development

Giles Atkinson;David Pearce

438
Citations
Handbook of Sustainable Development

Giles Atkinson;Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer

362
Citations
Measuring sustainable development: progress on indicators*

David Pearce;Kirk Hamilton;Giles Atkinson

357
Citations
Are We Willing to Pay Enough to `Back the Bid'?: Valuing the Intangible Impacts of London's Bid to Host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games

Giles Atkinson;Susana Mourato;Stefan Szymanski;Ece Ozdemiroglu

347
Citations
The economics of sustainable development

David Pearce;Giles Atkinson;W. R. Dubourg

309
Citations
Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis

Giles Atkinson;Susana Mourato

279
Citations
Priority research areas for ecosystem services in a changing world

Emily Nicholson;Georgina M. Mace;Paul R. Armsworth;Giles Atkinson

273
Citations
Trade in'virtual carbon': empirical results and implications for policy

Giles Atkinson;Kirk Hamilton;Giovanni Ruta;Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe

243
Citations
International trade and the sustainability footprint: a practical criterion for its assessment

John L.R. Proops;Giles Atkinson;Burkhard Frhr.v. Schlotheim;Sandrine Simon

221
Citations
Recent advances in the valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity

Giles Atkinson;Ian J. Bateman;Susana Mourato

211
Citations
Siblings, Not Triplets: Social Preferences for Risk, Inequality and Time in Discounting Climate Change

Giles D. Atkinson;Simon Dietz;Jennifer Helgeson;Cameron Hepburn;Cameron Hepburn

207
Citations
The why, what, and how of global biodiversity indicators beyond the 2010 target

Julia P. G. Jones;Ben Collen;Giles Atkinson;Peter W. J. Baxter

201
Citations
Accounting for the Impact of Conservation on Human Well-Being

E. J. Milner-Gulland;J. A. Mcgregor;M. Agarwala;M. Agarwala;G. Atkinson

174
Citations
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services: A Review of Frameworks

Matthew Agarwala;Giles Atkinson;Benjamin Palmer Fry;Katherine Homewood

174
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Susana Mourato London School of Economics and Political Science

Georgina M. Mace University College London

R. Kerry Turner University of East Anglia

Andrew S. Pullin Bangor University

External Links

Personal website of Giles Atkinson Google Scholar page

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