Thomas Sterner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1397109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Sterner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sterner |
| SIGNATURE | STERNER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4771-3545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The public’s views on climate policies in seven large global south countries
While public attitudes regarding climate change have been widely explored in the global north, survey work is still limited in the global south countries. Here we analysed survey data ( n = 8,400) from Chile, Colombia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Vietnam to understand climate knowledge, trusted information sources and policy preferences. Our results indicate that scientists stand out as the most trusted information source in all count…
The 30 by 30 biodiversity commitment and financial disclosure: Metrics matter
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commits nearly 200 nations to protect 30% of their territories. Given financial constraints, the ‘easiest’ approach to comply would be to protect the cheapest areas. But what would this mean for biodiversity conservation, and how could financial disclosure support — or undermine — success? We showcase and discuss the biological and financial consequences of area protection and restoration selecte…
Willingness to pay for antibiotic pollution control
Improving biodiversity protection through artificial intelligence
Over a million species face extinction, urging the need for conservation policies that maximize the protection of biodiversity to sustain its manifold contributions to people. Here we present a novel framework for spatial conservation prioritization based on reinforcement learning that consistently outperforms available state-of-the-art software using simulated and empirical data. Our methodology, CAPTAIN (Conservation Area Prioritization Through…
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets
Under the UN Paris Agreement, countries committed to limiting global warming to well below 2 °C and to actively pursue a 1.5 °C limit. Yet, according to the 2018 Economics Nobel laureate William Nordhaus, these targets are economically suboptimal or unattainable and the world community should aim for 3.5 °C in 2100 instead. Here, we show that the UN climate targets may be optimal even in the Dynamic Integrated Climate–Economy (DICE) integrated as…
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator. With this starting point we compare the result of trying to impose taxation…
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Policy sequencing toward decarbonization
Les instruments de la politique environnementale
Comment gérer l’économie globale pour un développement durable ? Comment concevoir et mettre en œuvre les instruments nécessaires ? Tout d’abord, il faut établir un diagnostic – de même que le médecin ne se contente pas de prescrire des médicaments, mais s’efforce d’analyser et de comprendre la nature de la maladie. Le diagnostic revient à se poser la question : pourquoi détruisons-nous notre maison ? Cette activité pourrait simplement s’explique…
Colloque « Paris 2015 and Beyond. Cooling The Climate Debate »: 29-30 Octobre 2015
En 2009, la Conférence de Copenhague sur le climat (COP15) a majoritairement été perçue comme un échec. Six ans plus tard, le monde est peut-être un peu plus sage. Le GIEC a rendu son cinquième rapport d’évaluation (AR5), et les États-Unis et la Chine ont enfin entamé des discussions. La Conférence de Paris en 2015 (COP21) sera-t-elle suffisamment efficace pour être qualifiée de succès ? Les économistes ont avancé une solution simple, la meilleur…
Refunded emission payments and diffusion of NOx abatement technologies in Sweden
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the capacity of social-ecological systems to adapt or transform in response to unfamiliar, unexpected and extreme shocks. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, re…
Short-Run Allocation of Emissions Allowances and Long-Term Goals for Climate Policy
How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies Be Designed
Is fairness blind?—The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
Commentaire sur l'article d'Alan Gelb et Sina Grasmann
Unobserved diversity, depletion and irreversibility The importance of subpopulations for management of cod stocks
Refunded emission payments theory, distribution of costs, and Swedish experience of NOx abatement
Monitoring and enforcement: Is two-tier regulation robust? — A case study of Ankleshwar, India
A Net Loss: Policy Instruments for Commercial Cod Fishing in Sweden
This paper describes the overfishing of the seas, in particular for cod in Sweden. It discusses policy instruments such as individual quotas, labelling and marine reserves. A tentative conclusion is that something needs to be done to the very structure of the policy instruments used. Information on stock depletion is available but goes unheeded and is counteracted by fishermen who want to fish more and who are routinely supported by "the politica…
A Net Loss: Policy Instruments for Commercial Cod Fishing in Sweden
This paper describes the overfishing of the seas, in particular for cod in Sweden. It discusses policy instruments such as individual quotas, labelling and marine reserves. A tentative conclusion is that something needs to be done to the very structure of the policy instruments used. Information on stock depletion is available but goes unheeded and is counteracted by fishermen who want to fish more and who are routinely supported by “the politica…
Discounting and distributional considerations in the context of global warming
Horaires de travail et durée d'utilisation des équipements: Quelques aspects théoriques
Arbeitszeit und Nutzungsdauer der Aniagen : einige theoretische Aspekte Die Nutzungsdauer der Aniagen ist eine Variable, deren Bedeutung fur die wirtschaftliche Analyse oftmals aufgrund von MeBschwierigkeiten unterschâtzt wird. Die Kapitaleffizienz hàngt jedoch unmittelbar von dieser Variablen ab. In einem Buch, das vor kurzem zu diesem Thema in der Reihe Insee Méthodes erschienen ist, wird dariiber berichtet, wie sich Forscher aus zehn Làndern u…
Foreign exchange and industrial development: A frontier production function analysis of two Tanzanian industries
Energy Use in Mexican Industry
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Improving biodiversity protection through artificial intelligence
Over a million species face extinction, urging the need for conservation policies that maximize the protection of biodiversity to sustain its manifold contributions to people. Here we present a novel framework for spatial conservation prioritization based on reinforcement learning that consistently outperforms available state-of-the-art software using simulated and empirical data. Our methodology, CAPTAIN (Conservation Area Prioritization Through…
Short-Run Allocation of Emissions Allowances and Long-Term Goals for Climate Policy
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator. With this starting point we compare the result of trying to impose taxation…
How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies Be Designed
A Net Loss: Policy Instruments for Commercial Cod Fishing in Sweden
This paper describes the overfishing of the seas, in particular for cod in Sweden. It discusses policy instruments such as individual quotas, labelling and marine reserves. A tentative conclusion is that something needs to be done to the very structure of the policy instruments used. Information on stock depletion is available but goes unheeded and is counteracted by fishermen who want to fish more and who are routinely supported by “the politica…
Energy Use in Mexican Industry
Foreign exchange and industrial development: A frontier production function analysis of two Tanzanian industries
Horaires de travail et durée d'utilisation des équipements: Quelques aspects théoriques
Arbeitszeit und Nutzungsdauer der Aniagen : einige theoretische Aspekte Die Nutzungsdauer der Aniagen ist eine Variable, deren Bedeutung fur die wirtschaftliche Analyse oftmals aufgrund von MeBschwierigkeiten unterschâtzt wird. Die Kapitaleffizienz hàngt jedoch unmittelbar von dieser Variablen ab. In einem Buch, das vor kurzem zu diesem Thema in der Reihe Insee Méthodes erschienen ist, wird dariiber berichtet, wie sich Forscher aus zehn Làndern u…
Discounting and distributional considerations in the context of global warming
A Net Loss: Policy Instruments for Commercial Cod Fishing in Sweden
This paper describes the overfishing of the seas, in particular for cod in Sweden. It discusses policy instruments such as individual quotas, labelling and marine reserves. A tentative conclusion is that something needs to be done to the very structure of the policy instruments used. Information on stock depletion is available but goes unheeded and is counteracted by fishermen who want to fish more and who are routinely supported by "the politica…
A Net Loss: Policy Instruments for Commercial Cod Fishing in Sweden
This paper describes the overfishing of the seas, in particular for cod in Sweden. It discusses policy instruments such as individual quotas, labelling and marine reserves. A tentative conclusion is that something needs to be done to the very structure of the policy instruments used. Information on stock depletion is available but goes unheeded and is counteracted by fishermen who want to fish more and who are routinely supported by “the politica…
Refunded emission payments theory, distribution of costs, and Swedish experience of NOx abatement
Monitoring and enforcement: Is two-tier regulation robust? — A case study of Ankleshwar, India
Unobserved diversity, depletion and irreversibility The importance of subpopulations for management of cod stocks
Commentaire sur l'article d'Alan Gelb et Sina Grasmann
Is fairness blind?—The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the capacity of social-ecological systems to adapt or transform in response to unfamiliar, unexpected and extreme shocks. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, re…
Short-Run Allocation of Emissions Allowances and Long-Term Goals for Climate Policy
How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies Be Designed
Refunded emission payments and diffusion of NOx abatement technologies in Sweden
Les instruments de la politique environnementale
Comment gérer l’économie globale pour un développement durable ? Comment concevoir et mettre en œuvre les instruments nécessaires ? Tout d’abord, il faut établir un diagnostic – de même que le médecin ne se contente pas de prescrire des médicaments, mais s’efforce d’analyser et de comprendre la nature de la maladie. Le diagnostic revient à se poser la question : pourquoi détruisons-nous notre maison ? Cette activité pourrait simplement s’explique…
Colloque « Paris 2015 and Beyond. Cooling The Climate Debate »: 29-30 Octobre 2015
En 2009, la Conférence de Copenhague sur le climat (COP15) a majoritairement été perçue comme un échec. Six ans plus tard, le monde est peut-être un peu plus sage. Le GIEC a rendu son cinquième rapport d’évaluation (AR5), et les États-Unis et la Chine ont enfin entamé des discussions. La Conférence de Paris en 2015 (COP21) sera-t-elle suffisamment efficace pour être qualifiée de succès ? Les économistes ont avancé une solution simple, la meilleur…
Policy sequencing toward decarbonization
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets
Under the UN Paris Agreement, countries committed to limiting global warming to well below 2 °C and to actively pursue a 1.5 °C limit. Yet, according to the 2018 Economics Nobel laureate William Nordhaus, these targets are economically suboptimal or unattainable and the world community should aim for 3.5 °C in 2100 instead. Here, we show that the UN climate targets may be optimal even in the Dynamic Integrated Climate–Economy (DICE) integrated as…
Environmental policy instruments and corruption
In this paper we discuss the choice of taxation or regulation of environmental externalities. The subject might appear to be a well-trodden path, but we believe we have a new angle on this well-established question. We think we are being quite realistic when we assume that corrupt practices lurk behind every corner, threatening to derail the good intents of any regulator. With this starting point we compare the result of trying to impose taxation…
Improving biodiversity protection through artificial intelligence
Over a million species face extinction, urging the need for conservation policies that maximize the protection of biodiversity to sustain its manifold contributions to people. Here we present a novel framework for spatial conservation prioritization based on reinforcement learning that consistently outperforms available state-of-the-art software using simulated and empirical data. Our methodology, CAPTAIN (Conservation Area Prioritization Through…
The public’s views on climate policies in seven large global south countries
While public attitudes regarding climate change have been widely explored in the global north, survey work is still limited in the global south countries. Here we analysed survey data ( n = 8,400) from Chile, Colombia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Vietnam to understand climate knowledge, trusted information sources and policy preferences. Our results indicate that scientists stand out as the most trusted information source in all count…
The 30 by 30 biodiversity commitment and financial disclosure: Metrics matter
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commits nearly 200 nations to protect 30% of their territories. Given financial constraints, the ‘easiest’ approach to comply would be to protect the cheapest areas. But what would this mean for biodiversity conservation, and how could financial disclosure support — or undermine — success? We showcase and discuss the biological and financial consequences of area protection and restoration selecte…
Willingness to pay for antibiotic pollution control
Economics (17 works) · Business (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Public economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)