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45
Citations
13100
World Ranking
336
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Neil Gunningham is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. The research work focuses on several interconnected areas including sustainability, climate finance, and governance. Their publications explore the intersections of environmental regulation, finance, and social change.

The scientist has contributed to multiple research topics, including:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Silkworms and Sericulture Research
  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Several recent papers underscore the scope of Neil Gunningham's research. These include:

  • "A Quiet Revolution: Central Banks, Financial Regulators, and Climate Finance" (2020), published in Sustainability
  • "Financing a low-carbon revolution" (2020), appearing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • "Can climate activism deliver transformative change? Extinction Rebellion, business and people power" (2020), featured in Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

The frequent publication venues for their work indicate an emphasis on regulatory and governance frameworks, including:

  • Regulation & Governance
  • Sustainability
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
  • Transnational Environmental Law

Research collaborations have been an important component of their academic activity. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • David Levi-Faur
  • Eva Thomann
  • Tim Bartley
  • John Braithwaite
  • Cary Coglianese

Their work covers a range of subfields, emphasizing environmental and social dimensions, such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Insect Science
  • Political Science and International Relations

Neil Gunningham's research engages with multidisciplinary aspects of climate change, combining policy analysis, economic perspectives, and social movements. Their publication record reflects contributions to developing understanding of how financial systems and activism intersect with environmental governance.

Best Publications

  • Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Go beyond Compliance

    Neil Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan;Dorothy Thornton

  • Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy

    Neil Gunningham;Peter N. Grabosky;Darren Sinclair

  • Industry Self‐Regulation: An Institutional Perspective

    Neil Gunningham;Joseph Rees

  • Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment

    Neil Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan;Dorothy Thornton

  • Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?

    Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton

  • Regulatory pluralism: Designing policy mixes for environmental protection

    Neil Gunningham;Darren L Sinclair

  • Environment Law, Regulation and Governance: Shifting Architectures

    Neil Gunningham

  • Regulating Workplace Safety: System and Sanctions

    Neil Gunningham;Richard Johnstone

  • General Deterrence and Corporate Environmental Behavior

    Dorothy Thornton;Neil A. Gunningham;Robert A. Kagan

  • Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance in Environmental Protection*

    Neil A. Gunningham;Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan

  • Leaders and Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation

    Neil Gunningham;Darren L Sinclair

  • The New Collaborative Environmental Governance: The Localization of Regulation

    Neil Gunningham

  • Environment, Self‐Regulation, and the Chemical Industry: Assessing Responsible Care*

    Neil Gunningham

  • Non-state governance and climate policy: the fossil fuel divestment movement

    Julie Ayling;Neil Gunningham

  • The New Environmental Governance

    Cameron Holley;Neil Gunningham;Clifford D. Shearing;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Reimbursing the Future: An Evaluation of Motivational, Voluntary, Price-based, Property-right and Regulatory Incentives for the Conservation of Biodiversity.

    Michael D. Young;Bruce Howard;Neil Gunningham;P. Grabosky

  • Managing the energy trilemma: The case of Indonesia☆

    Neil Gunningham

  • Toward Optimal Environmental Policy: The Case of Biodiversity Conservation

    Neil Gunningham;Mike D. Young

  • Organizational Trust and the Limits of Management-Based Regulation

    Neil Gunningham;Darren Sinclair

  • Enforcement and Compliance Strategies

    Neil Gunningham

  • Sources of Corporate Environmental Performance

    Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham

  • Policy Instrument Choice and Diffuse Source Pollution

    Neil Gunningham;Darren L Sinclair

  • Negotiated Non-Compliance: A Case Study of Regulatory Failure

    Neil Gunningham

  • When Social Norms and Pressures Are Not Enough: Environmental Performance in the Trucking Industry

    Dorothy Thornton;Robert A. Kagan;Neil Gunningham

  • Enforcing Environmental Regulation

    Neil Gunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Kagan
Robert A. Kagan University of California, Berkeley
Clifford Shearing
Clifford Shearing University of Cape Town
Peter Drahos
Peter Drahos Australian National University
Peter Grabosky
Peter Grabosky Australian National University

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