Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Abstract Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form
of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped for aiding questions related to …

We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

Many models in energy economics assess the cost of alternative power generation
technologies. As an input, the models require well-calibrated assumptions for the cost of …

Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that humans obtain from nature, are of great
importance for human well-being. The challenge of meeting the growing human demands …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

International climate change agreements typically specify global warming thresholds as
policy targets, but the relative economic benefits of achieving these temperature targets …

Choices on discount rates have important implications for the outcomes of economic
evaluations of health interventions and policies. In global health, such evaluations typically …

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial metric for informing climate policy, most notably
for guiding climate regulations issued by the US government. Characterization of uncertainty …

The economic values of investing in long-term public projects are highly sensitive to the
social discount rate (SDR). We surveyed over 200 experts to disentangle disagreement on …