Shaun Larcom
Biographic Data
| ID | 96975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Larcom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Larcom |
| SIGNATURE | LARCOM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0029-3264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do religious people cope better in a crisis? Evidence from the UK pandemic lockdowns
Food for the Soul and the Planet
We measure the impact of a return to meatless Fridays for English and Welsh Catholics on consumption behaviour, climate change mitigation, and religiosity. We find evidence of partial compliance with the reimposed obligation. We then measure the corresponding greenhouse gas reductions - which are nontrivial. We find no discernible impact on religiosity. We highlight the important role that religious regulations can play in achieving environmental…
The impact of law on moral and social norms
We measure the extent that a prevailing law can affect moral and social norms. We use variations in facemask fines in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, as it presents us with many features of a natural experiment. Our analysis provides two important findings. First, we find that the legal status of a behaviour, that is whether the behaviour is illegal or not, is important in influencing stated compliance and moral and social no…
The consequences of legal pluralism for an interdisciplinary researcher
Seeing Covid-19 through an urban lens
Scaling the nexus
The emergence of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has resulted in changes to the way we perceive our natural resources. Stressors such as climate change and population growth have highlighted the fragility of our WEF systems, necessitating integrated solutions across multiple scales. While a number of frameworks and analytical tools have been developed since 2011, a comprehensive WEF nexus tool remains elusive, hindered in part by our limited da…
Regulating the water-energy-food nexus
There have been calls for an overhaul of regulatory and governance frameworks to incorporate the implications of the water-energy-food nexus. We map one small component of the regulatory space of the nexus and highlight its immense complexity. We draw on insights from the economics and socio-legal literatures to show that a decentralised approach to regulation based upon procedural justice can enable the trade-offs of the nexus to be considered a…
Natural Resource Contests and Precolonial Institutions in Papua New Guinea
This paper investigates the role that precolonial institutions play in relation to postcolonial natural resource ownership contests. Papua New Guinea provides a unique case study, as it is recorded as having the most decentralized precolonial political institutions of any postcolonial state. After an examination of its precolonial institutions, colonial land policy and three case studies, it is concluded that persistent highly decentralized custo…
Precolonial institutions and deforestation in Africa
Internalizing Legal Norms
This article investigates beliefs concerning the legitimacy of the traditional customary practice of payback in the New Guinea Islands; a practice that has been illegal for more than a century. The practice of payback is described and contextualized and a conceptual framework of norm internalization in a legal transplant society is developed. The empirical results highlight a stark urban-rural divide in attitudes. Yet, against expectations, those…
Problematic legal pluralism
The tools of analytical positivism and economic analysis are applied to the phenomenon of legal pluralism. An analytical framework is developed to ascertain when legal pluralism is problematic in the control of wrongdoing. It is demonstrated that there are three specific cases: rivalrous compliance, sanctions for wrong behaviour that are deemed to be wrongs themselves, and the uncoordinated sanctioning of common wrongs. Then there is a discussion…
Taking customary law seriously
This article outlines the legal arrangements in the Kieta District of Bougainville in relation to the sanctioning of wrongs. It is shown that the state recognises customary law, with its very different processes and sanctions, as a valid substitute for its own and how such arrangements developed. Importantly, this article provides an example of legal re-ordering where the state allows customary law the first opportunity to sanction a wrong, rathe…
Scaling the nexus
The emergence of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has resulted in changes to the way we perceive our natural resources. Stressors such as climate change and population growth have highlighted the fragility of our WEF systems, necessitating integrated solutions across multiple scales. While a number of frameworks and analytical tools have been developed since 2011, a comprehensive WEF nexus tool remains elusive, hindered in part by our limited da…
Seeing Covid-19 through an urban lens
Regulating the water-energy-food nexus
There have been calls for an overhaul of regulatory and governance frameworks to incorporate the implications of the water-energy-food nexus. We map one small component of the regulatory space of the nexus and highlight its immense complexity. We draw on insights from the economics and socio-legal literatures to show that a decentralised approach to regulation based upon procedural justice can enable the trade-offs of the nexus to be considered a…
Precolonial institutions and deforestation in Africa
Internalizing Legal Norms
This article investigates beliefs concerning the legitimacy of the traditional customary practice of payback in the New Guinea Islands; a practice that has been illegal for more than a century. The practice of payback is described and contextualized and a conceptual framework of norm internalization in a legal transplant society is developed. The empirical results highlight a stark urban-rural divide in attitudes. Yet, against expectations, those…
Natural Resource Contests and Precolonial Institutions in Papua New Guinea
This paper investigates the role that precolonial institutions play in relation to postcolonial natural resource ownership contests. Papua New Guinea provides a unique case study, as it is recorded as having the most decentralized precolonial political institutions of any postcolonial state. After an examination of its precolonial institutions, colonial land policy and three case studies, it is concluded that persistent highly decentralized custo…
Taking customary law seriously
This article outlines the legal arrangements in the Kieta District of Bougainville in relation to the sanctioning of wrongs. It is shown that the state recognises customary law, with its very different processes and sanctions, as a valid substitute for its own and how such arrangements developed. Importantly, this article provides an example of legal re-ordering where the state allows customary law the first opportunity to sanction a wrong, rathe…
Problematic legal pluralism
The tools of analytical positivism and economic analysis are applied to the phenomenon of legal pluralism. An analytical framework is developed to ascertain when legal pluralism is problematic in the control of wrongdoing. It is demonstrated that there are three specific cases: rivalrous compliance, sanctions for wrong behaviour that are deemed to be wrongs themselves, and the uncoordinated sanctioning of common wrongs. Then there is a discussion…
Internalizing Legal Norms
This article investigates beliefs concerning the legitimacy of the traditional customary practice of payback in the New Guinea Islands; a practice that has been illegal for more than a century. The practice of payback is described and contextualized and a conceptual framework of norm internalization in a legal transplant society is developed. The empirical results highlight a stark urban-rural divide in attitudes. Yet, against expectations, those…
Precolonial institutions and deforestation in Africa
Regulating the water-energy-food nexus
There have been calls for an overhaul of regulatory and governance frameworks to incorporate the implications of the water-energy-food nexus. We map one small component of the regulatory space of the nexus and highlight its immense complexity. We draw on insights from the economics and socio-legal literatures to show that a decentralised approach to regulation based upon procedural justice can enable the trade-offs of the nexus to be considered a…
Natural Resource Contests and Precolonial Institutions in Papua New Guinea
This paper investigates the role that precolonial institutions play in relation to postcolonial natural resource ownership contests. Papua New Guinea provides a unique case study, as it is recorded as having the most decentralized precolonial political institutions of any postcolonial state. After an examination of its precolonial institutions, colonial land policy and three case studies, it is concluded that persistent highly decentralized custo…
Scaling the nexus
The emergence of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has resulted in changes to the way we perceive our natural resources. Stressors such as climate change and population growth have highlighted the fragility of our WEF systems, necessitating integrated solutions across multiple scales. While a number of frameworks and analytical tools have been developed since 2011, a comprehensive WEF nexus tool remains elusive, hindered in part by our limited da…
Seeing Covid-19 through an urban lens
The consequences of legal pluralism for an interdisciplinary researcher
Food for the Soul and the Planet
We measure the impact of a return to meatless Fridays for English and Welsh Catholics on consumption behaviour, climate change mitigation, and religiosity. We find evidence of partial compliance with the reimposed obligation. We then measure the corresponding greenhouse gas reductions - which are nontrivial. We find no discernible impact on religiosity. We highlight the important role that religious regulations can play in achieving environmental…
The impact of law on moral and social norms
We measure the extent that a prevailing law can affect moral and social norms. We use variations in facemask fines in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, as it presents us with many features of a natural experiment. Our analysis provides two important findings. First, we find that the legal status of a behaviour, that is whether the behaviour is illegal or not, is important in influencing stated compliance and moral and social no…
Do religious people cope better in a crisis? Evidence from the UK pandemic lockdowns
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Legal pluralism (3 works)