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Simon Dietz is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily addresses issues within environmental science, economics, and policy, focusing on the intersection of climate change, sustainability, and economic systems.

They have contributed extensively to fields including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their subfields of study include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science

Main topics of their work reflect a focus on climate and environmental policy, including:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research

Simon Dietz has published in several prominent venues, several of which they have contributed to multiple times. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Science
  • Nature Communications

Among recent scientific papers, representative examples include:

  • "Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Are Economists Getting Climate Dynamics Right and Does It Matter?", 2021, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • "Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon," 2021, Nature
  • "Food system development pathways for healthy, nature-positive and inclusive food systems," 2021, Nature Food
  • "How ambitious are oil and gas companies' climate goals?", 2021, Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • James Rising
  • Gernot Wagner
  • Frank Venmans
  • Frances C. Moore
  • Thomas Stoerk

Best Publications

  • Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change

    Siobhan Peters;Vicki Bakhshi;Alex Bowen;Catherine Cameron

  • Climate value at risk of global financial assets

    Simon Dietz;Alex Bowen;Charlie Dixon;Philip Gradwell

  • Weak and strong sustainability in the SEEA: Concepts and measurement

    Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer

  • Handbook of Sustainable Development

    Giles Atkinson;Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer

  • Endogenous Growth, Convexity of Damage and Climate Risk: How Nordhaus' Framework Supports Deep Cuts in Carbon Emissions

    Simon Dietz;Nicholas Stern

  • Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving

    Simon Dietz;Eric Neumayer;Indra De Soysa

  • Cumulative carbon emissions and economic policy: In search of general principles

    Simon Dietz;Simon Dietz;Frank Venmans;Frank Venmans

  • Economic growth, biodiversity loss and conservation effort

    Simon Dietz;W.Neil Adger

  • 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

  • The Expansion of Modern Agriculture and Global Biodiversity Decline: An Integrated Assessment

    Bruno Lanz;Bruno Lanz;Simon Dietz;Timothy Swanson

  • Scientific ambiguity and climate policy

    Antony Millner;Antony Millner;Simon Dietz;Geoffrey Heal

  • Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system

    Simon Dietz;James Rising;Thomas Stoerk;Gernot Wagner

  • Adaptation in the UK: a decision-making process

    Nicola Ranger;Anthony Millner;Simon Dietz;Samuel Fankhauser

  • Why Economic Analysis Supports Strong Action on Climate Change: A Response to the Stern Review's Critics

    Simon Dietz;Nicholas Stern

  • Some economics of ‘dangerous’ climate change: Reflections on the Stern Review

    Simon Dietz;Simon Dietz;Chris Hope;Nicola Patmore

  • Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries

    Antony Millner;Simon Dietz

  • Reflections on the Stern review (1): a robust case for strong action to reduce the risks of climate change

    Simon Dietz;Nicholas Stern;Chris Hope;Dimitri Zenghelis

  • Vulnerability to Weather Disasters: the Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda

    Jennifer F. Helgeson;Simon Dietz;Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

  • High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change

    Simon Dietz

  • The climate beta

    Simon Dietz;Christian Gollier;Louise Kessler

  • Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements

    Simon Dietz;Carmen Marchiori;Alessandro Tavoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern London School of Economics and Political Science
Eric Neumayer
Eric Neumayer London School of Economics and Political Science
Cameron Hepburn
Cameron Hepburn University of Oxford
Giles Atkinson
Giles Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science
Geoffrey Heal
Geoffrey Heal Columbia University
Samuel Fankhauser
Samuel Fankhauser University of Oxford
Chris Hope
Chris Hope University of Cambridge
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Geir B. Asheim
Geir B. Asheim University of Oslo
Valentina Bosetti
Valentina Bosetti Bocconi University

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