Anil Markandya
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anil Markandya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anil |
| FAMILY NAME | Markandya |
| SIGNATURE | MARKANDYA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Basque Centre for Climate Change |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6304-7103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Computing the social costs of carbon through Coase bargaining in the context of an offsetting program in the Venetian lagoon
The paper adds to the narrow literature on saltmarsh carbon storage. It aims at proposing and testing an original climate policy measure that encompasses other policies limitations, under specific conditions. In particular, the study aims at adopting nonmarket valuation methods (e.g., contingent valuation) for assessing the willingness to pay (WTP) of local CO2 polluters to carbon offsetting by refurbishing local stock of natural capital that abs…
Mobilising finance for global biodiversity targets
The article provides a review of biodiversity trends, drivers of biodiversity loss and looks at how finance can be mobilised to help achieve the targets set by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The GBF states that US$200 billion has to be raised by 2030 to finance the other biodiversity goals. So far, the amounts available are much smaller. On the private finance side, there are a number of new instruments, such as biodive…
Links between the sustainable development goals: An analysis for Italy
The article reviews the links between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examining how progress in one is related to the others and what factors determine the progress. While most previous work is at the national level, this article focusses at the sub‐national level for one country, namely Italy. After reviewing the evidence from the literature, the paper utilizes an unbalanced panel data collected for Italian provinces, covering the peri…
The impact of multipurpose dams on the values of nature's contributions to people under a water-energy-food nexus framing
The paper proposes a probabilistic approach to the assessment of the impacts of multipurpose dams. It is framed around the notion of Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) in the setting of the Water-Energy-Food nexus. The socio-ecological context of the Tana River Basin in Kenya and the construction of two multipurpose dams are used to highlight co-produced positive and negative NCP under alternative river regimes. These regimes produce both dam…
Climate and Development
In this paper we present a simple impact assessment exercise conducted with a \nCGE model with two purposes. Firstly, we address a specific criticism raised \nagainst IAMs: that of “overly optimistic” representation of adaptation processes \nthat brings, as a consequence, the implicit conclusion of a tendency to \nunderestimate climate change damages. We show that introducing rigidities in \nadaptation processes the general results of the economi…
Accounting for the Effects of Employment, Equity, and Risk Aversion in Cost–Benefit Analysis: An Application to an Adaptation Project
This paper sets out to explore to what extent integrating employment effects, equity, and risk aversion within cost–benefit analysis (CBA) affect the economic appraisal of a climate change adaptation project designed to protect against flood risk in a region of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). Four CBAs are conducted: (i) a standard CBA; (ii) a standard CBA considering equity; (iii) a standard CBA considering equity and employment; and (iv) a stan…
Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions
The debate on “Loss and Damage” (L&D) has gained traction over the last few years. Supported by growing scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change amplifying frequency, intensity and duration of climate-related hazards as well as observed increases in climate-related impacts and risks in many regions, the “Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage” was established in 2013 and further supported through the Paris Agreement in 2015…
Risk measures and the distribution of damage curves for 600 European coastal cities
A good understanding of climate change damages is vital to design effective adaptation policies and measures. Using a dataset of probabilistic sea-level rise and other of flood damages and protection cost curves for the 600 largest European coastal cities we generate stochastic damage curves and their distributions with and without adaptation. We apply the Generalized Extreme Value distribution to characterize the distributions and calculate two …
The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages in its accounting systems and standards. These shortcomings lead to perverse and pervasive outcomes for society at large. Our proposal is to consider all social and environmental externalities - both negative and positive, in gl…
South Asia's Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards
South Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change. Average temperatures have been rising throughout the region, and rainfall has become more erratic. These changes are projected to continue accruing over the coming decades. South Asia’s Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards is the first book of its kind to provide granular spatial analysis of the long-term impacts of changes in average temperature and p…
Addendum to ‘Understanding risks in the light of uncertainty: Low-probability, high-impact coastal events in cities’
This addendum adds to the analysis presented in 'Understanding risks in the light of uncertainty: low-probability, high-impact coastal events in cities' Abadie et al (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 014017). We propose to use the framework developed earlier to enhance communication and understanding of risks, with the aim of bridging the gap between highly technical risk management discussion to the public risk aversion debate. We also propose that t…
Impact and distribution of climatic damages: A methodological proposal with a dynamic CGE model applied to global climate negotiations
The Green Climate Fund as an effective compensatory mechanism in global climate negotiations
What Role Can Taxes and Subsidies Play in Changing Diets?
The study examines the use of fiscal instruments to achieve a healthier diet while reducing CO2 emissions. The methodology is to minimize the deadweight losses in attaining a healthy diet. Given that the shift should not impose a large burden on the consumer, the analysis is conducted with a system of taxes and subsidies - a bonus-malus framework. The model generates heavy subsidies on carbohydrates and heavy taxes on red meats, which would be po…
Analyzing Trade-offs in International Climate Policy Options: The Case of the Green Climate Fund
Wood provisioning in Mediterranean forests: A bottom-up spatial valuation approach
Beyond Current Practices: The Role of the External Costs of Carbon in Climate Decision Making
The Costs of Climate Change: A Study of Cholera in Tanzania
Increased temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns as a result of climate change are widely recognized to entail potentially serious consequences for human health, including an increased risk of diarrheal diseases. This study integrates historical data on temperature and rainfall with the burden of disease from cholera in Tanzania and uses socioeconomic data to control for the impacts of general development on the risk of cholera. The result…
Introduction: Sustainable Development, Energy, and Climate Change
Equity and Distributional Implications of Climate Change
Economics of Sustainable Tourism
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people. At the same time, it has many negative outsourced effects on the environment and local culture. Achieving a more sustainable pattern of tourism development is high on the global agenda aiming to meet human needs while preserving the environment now and for the future. The Economics of Sustain…
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: Overview and implications for policy makers
Can Climate Change be Reversed under Capitalism
This contribution seeks to examine the prospects for tackling climate change in a world dominated by capitalist economies. Since climate change is a relatively new phenomenon, we have to review the successes and failures of such economies in addressing other environmental issues. This review reveals a mixed picture, but the evidence suggests that once an issue is raised in the public consciousness the prospects for effective action are quite good…
Counting the cost of vulture decline—An appraisal of the human health and other benefits of vultures in India
The internalization of externalities in the production of electricity: Willingness to pay for the attributes of a policy for renewable energy
Jesp symposium: Climate change and social policy
Climate change is surely one of the most encompassing and egregious threats in Europe today, so it is appropriate that we consider its implications for social policy in Europe. It is true that climate change is a separate agenda, the preserve of a distinct academic and epistemic community, scholarly discourse, policy community, institutional structures and modes of governance; but the linkages between these two issues – climate change and its pol…
A method for the economic valuation of non-timber tropical forest products
Environmental Sustainability and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Efforts to 'operationalize' a concept of sustainability into appraisal methods for practical decisionmaking have been few and generally unpersuasive. In this paper it is argued that this need not be the case if a set of environmentally compensating, or 'shadow', projects within an overall portfolio are used to ensure a sustainability objective of setting a constraint on the depletion and degradation of the stock of natural capital. This can be ac…
Equity and Distributional Implications of Climate Change
Analyzing Trade-offs in International Climate Policy Options: The Case of the Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund as an effective compensatory mechanism in global climate negotiations
The Demand for Housing, Household Headship Rates, and Household Formation: An International Analysis
This study investigates the influence of availability and affordability of housing on demographic changes through an international analysis of the relationship between age specific headship rates and housing availability and affordability. The researchers describe the basic trends in household formation and headship rates in Canada, France, Great Britain and the United States, investigate the economic determinants of age specific household headsh…
Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life
Journal Article Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life Get access Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life. By WILLIAM J . BAUMOL and WALLACE E. OATES. (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall International, 1979. Pp. 377. £6.55.) Anil Markandya Anil Markandya University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 356, 1 December 1979, Pag…
Links between the sustainable development goals: An analysis for Italy
The article reviews the links between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examining how progress in one is related to the others and what factors determine the progress. While most previous work is at the national level, this article focusses at the sub‐national level for one country, namely Italy. After reviewing the evidence from the literature, the paper utilizes an unbalanced panel data collected for Italian provinces, covering the peri…
The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages in its accounting systems and standards. These shortcomings lead to perverse and pervasive outcomes for society at large. Our proposal is to consider all social and environmental externalities - both negative and positive, in gl…
Can Climate Change be Reversed under Capitalism
This contribution seeks to examine the prospects for tackling climate change in a world dominated by capitalist economies. Since climate change is a relatively new phenomenon, we have to review the successes and failures of such economies in addressing other environmental issues. This review reveals a mixed picture, but the evidence suggests that once an issue is raised in the public consciousness the prospects for effective action are quite good…
Accounting for the Effects of Employment, Equity, and Risk Aversion in Cost–Benefit Analysis: An Application to an Adaptation Project
This paper sets out to explore to what extent integrating employment effects, equity, and risk aversion within cost–benefit analysis (CBA) affect the economic appraisal of a climate change adaptation project designed to protect against flood risk in a region of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). Four CBAs are conducted: (i) a standard CBA; (ii) a standard CBA considering equity; (iii) a standard CBA considering equity and employment; and (iv) a stan…
Impact and distribution of climatic damages: A methodological proposal with a dynamic CGE model applied to global climate negotiations
The Welfare Measurement of Changes in Economic Mobility
This paper is concerned with the question, In what ways can a change in inter-generational mobility affect social welfare?' In answer to this, two important sources of influence are identified: first, that a change in mobility may lead to a more efficient utilization of resources; and second, that any change that increases mobility is (possibly) one that leads to a more just allocation of resources. This distinction between efficiency and equity …
The Measurement of Earnings Mobility Among Occupational Groups
An Introduction to a Mathematical Treatment of Economics
Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life
Journal Article Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life Get access Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life. By WILLIAM J . BAUMOL and WALLACE E. OATES. (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall International, 1979. Pp. 377. £6.55.) Anil Markandya Anil Markandya University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 356, 1 December 1979, Pag…
The Measurement of Earnings Mobility Among Occupational Groups
The Demand for Housing, Household Headship Rates, and Household Formation: An International Analysis
This study investigates the influence of availability and affordability of housing on demographic changes through an international analysis of the relationship between age specific headship rates and housing availability and affordability. The researchers describe the basic trends in household formation and headship rates in Canada, France, Great Britain and the United States, investigate the economic determinants of age specific household headsh…
The Welfare Measurement of Changes in Economic Mobility
This paper is concerned with the question, In what ways can a change in inter-generational mobility affect social welfare?' In answer to this, two important sources of influence are identified: first, that a change in mobility may lead to a more efficient utilization of resources; and second, that any change that increases mobility is (possibly) one that leads to a more just allocation of resources. This distinction between efficiency and equity …
Environmental costs and power systems planning
Environmental Sustainability and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Efforts to 'operationalize' a concept of sustainability into appraisal methods for practical decisionmaking have been few and generally unpersuasive. In this paper it is argued that this need not be the case if a set of environmentally compensating, or 'shadow', projects within an overall portfolio are used to ensure a sustainability objective of setting a constraint on the depletion and degradation of the stock of natural capital. This can be ac…
Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World
The Economics of Global Warning
Journal Article The Economics of Global Warning Get access The Economics of Global Warming. By (WILLIAM R.) Cline. (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1992. Pp. xi + 399. ISBN 0 88132 150 8, 0 88132 132 X.) A. Markandya A. Markandya Harvard Institute for International Development Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 421, 1 November 1993, Pages 1550–155…
A method for the economic valuation of non-timber tropical forest products
Reforming a Large Resource-Abundant Transition Economy: Russia
This chapter examines the contribution of Russia’s rich natural resource endowment to the slow progress of economic reform. Resource abundance caused social conflict, since the benefits were unequally distributed. The process of reform increased inequality, and the presence of rents slowed down institutional reforms in key areas.
The Economics of Tourism and Sustainable Development
Contents: Introduction 1. An Investigation on the Growth Performance of Small Tourism Countries 2. Forecasting International Tourism Demand and Uncertainty for Barbados, Cyprus and Fiji 3. Land, Environmental Externalities and Tourism Development 4. Tourism, Increasing Returns and Welfare 5. How to Develop an Accounting Framework for Ecologically Sustainable Tourism 6. The Effect of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events on Tourism 7. Sustaina…
Counting the cost of vulture decline—An appraisal of the human health and other benefits of vultures in India
The internalization of externalities in the production of electricity: Willingness to pay for the attributes of a policy for renewable energy
Jesp symposium: Climate change and social policy
Climate change is surely one of the most encompassing and egregious threats in Europe today, so it is appropriate that we consider its implications for social policy in Europe. It is true that climate change is a separate agenda, the preserve of a distinct academic and epistemic community, scholarly discourse, policy community, institutional structures and modes of governance; but the linkages between these two issues – climate change and its pol…
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: Overview and implications for policy makers
Can Climate Change be Reversed under Capitalism
This contribution seeks to examine the prospects for tackling climate change in a world dominated by capitalist economies. Since climate change is a relatively new phenomenon, we have to review the successes and failures of such economies in addressing other environmental issues. This review reveals a mixed picture, but the evidence suggests that once an issue is raised in the public consciousness the prospects for effective action are quite good…
Economics of Sustainable Tourism
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and employment for local people. At the same time, it has many negative outsourced effects on the environment and local culture. Achieving a more sustainable pattern of tourism development is high on the global agenda aiming to meet human needs while preserving the environment now and for the future. The Economics of Sustain…
Beyond Current Practices: The Role of the External Costs of Carbon in Climate Decision Making
The Costs of Climate Change: A Study of Cholera in Tanzania
Increased temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns as a result of climate change are widely recognized to entail potentially serious consequences for human health, including an increased risk of diarrheal diseases. This study integrates historical data on temperature and rainfall with the burden of disease from cholera in Tanzania and uses socioeconomic data to control for the impacts of general development on the risk of cholera. The result…
Introduction: Sustainable Development, Energy, and Climate Change
Equity and Distributional Implications of Climate Change
Wood provisioning in Mediterranean forests: A bottom-up spatial valuation approach
Analyzing Trade-offs in International Climate Policy Options: The Case of the Green Climate Fund
What Role Can Taxes and Subsidies Play in Changing Diets?
The study examines the use of fiscal instruments to achieve a healthier diet while reducing CO2 emissions. The methodology is to minimize the deadweight losses in attaining a healthy diet. Given that the shift should not impose a large burden on the consumer, the analysis is conducted with a system of taxes and subsidies - a bonus-malus framework. The model generates heavy subsidies on carbohydrates and heavy taxes on red meats, which would be po…
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