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Economics and Finance

D-Index
129
Citations
52541
World Ranking
23
National Ranking
3

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
129
Citations
57685
World Ranking
82
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Richard S. J. Tol is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a strong specialization in aspects related to climate change and environmental policy.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and soil science.

Research topics extensively covered by Tol include climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, economic and environmental valuation, fiscal policy and economic growth, environmental impact and sustainability, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and climate variability and models.

Among Tol's recent papers are:

  • Social cost of carbon estimates have increased over time (2023, Nature Climate Change)
  • A meta-analysis of the total economic impact of climate change (2023, Energy Policy)
  • The distributional impact of climate change (2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Francisco Estrada, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Fangzhi Wang, Jinchi Dong, and Hua Liao.

Tol has published in a variety of venues with high frequency, such as arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Energy Economics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Nature Climate Change.

Their academic contributions also extend to book publications, notably with Springer International Publishing, where a forthcoming title "Climate Change and Economic Growth" is scheduled for 2025.

Richard S. J. Tol has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2010.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Indicators for social and economic coping capacity—moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity

    Gary Yohe;Richard S.J. Tol

  • The Economic Effects of Climate Change

    Richard S. J. Tol

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Daniel Lincke;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Mahé Perrette

  • Considering the energy, water and food nexus: Towards an integrated modelling approach

    Morgan Bazilian;Holger Rogner;Mark Howells;Sebastian Hermann

  • The marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions: An assessment of the uncertainties

    Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change. Part 1: Benchmark Estimates

    Richard S.J. Tol

  • Weathering climate change: some simple rules to guide adaptation decisions

    Samuel Fankhauser;Joel B. Smith;Richard S.J. Tol

  • The Economic Impacts of Climate Change

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  • Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a 'beyond 4 ◦ C world' in the twenty-first century

    Robert J. Nicholls;Natasha Marinova;Jason A. Lowe;Sally Brown

  • Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change, Part II. Dynamic Estimates

    Richard S.J. Tol

  • Climate change and international tourism: A simulation study

    Jacqueline M. Hamilton;David J. Maddison;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Impact of climate on tourist demand

    Wietze Lise;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol

  • The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers, and Catastrophes

    Richard S. J. Tol

  • The damage costs of climate change toward more comprehensive calculations

    Richard S J Tol

  • New Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change

    Richard S. J. Tol

  • The direct impact of climate change on regional labor productivity.

    Tord Kjellstrom;R Sari Kovats;Simon J Lloyd;Tom Holt

  • On climate change and economic growth

    Samuel Fankhauser;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol

  • A general equilibrium analysis of climate change impacts on tourism

    Maria Berrittella;Maria Berrittella;Maria Berrittella;Andrea Bigano;Andrea Bigano;Andrea Bigano;Roberto Roson;Roberto Roson;Roberto Roson;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Evaluating the costs of desalination and water transport

    Yuan Zhou;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol

  • The marginal damage costs of carbon-dioxide emissions’

    R.S.J. Tol

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Rehdanz
Katrin Rehdanz Kiel University
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Gary W. Yohe
Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University
Samuel Fankhauser
Samuel Fankhauser University of Oxford
Athanasios T. Vafeidis
Athanasios T. Vafeidis Kiel University
Uwe A. Schneider
Uwe A. Schneider Universität Hamburg
Jochen Hinkel
Jochen Hinkel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute
Richard G. Richels
Richard G. Richels Electric Power Research Institute

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