Richard Sj Tol

Biographic Data

ID2909510
NAMERichard Sj Tol
GIVEN NAMESRichard Sj
FAMILY NAMETol
SIGNATURETOL R S
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0002-8012-3988
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS319
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX9

  • The Nobel family

    Open AccessRichard Sj TolARTICLEScientometrics2024

    Nobel laureates cluster together. 696 of the 727 winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics belong to one single academic family tree. 668 trace their ancestry to Emmanuel Stupanus, 228 to Lord Rayleigh (physics, 1904). Craig Mello (medicine, 2006) counts 51 Nobelists among his ancestors. Chemistry laureates have the most Nobel ancestors and descendants, economics laureates the fewest. Chemistry is the central disci…

  • Social cost of carbon estimates have increased over time

    Open AccessRichard Sj TolARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • Rise of the Kniesians

    Richard Sj TolARTICLEEuropean Journal of the History…2022

    The paper presents the professor-student network of Nobel laureates in economics. 82 of the 87 Nobelists belong to one family tree. The remaining five belong to three separate trees. There are 376 men in the graph, and five women. Karl Knies is the central-most professor, followed by Wassily Leontief. No classical and few neo-classical economists have left notable descendants. Harvard is the centralmost university, followed by Chicago and Berlin.…

  • Do climate dynamics matter for economics

    Open AccessRichard Sj TolARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • Environmental applications of the Coase Theorem

    Open AccessTatyana Deryugina, F C Moore et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 5References: 6

  • Methodological issues in natural disaster loss normalisation studies

    Open AccessW J Wouter Botzen, Francisco Estrada et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Hazards2020

    The mixed results in Pielke (2020) for natural disaster loss normalisation studies are due to methodological differences. Flaws exist in commonly used normalisation approaches that assume unitary elasticities between exposure indicators and losses. We refute Pielke’s arguments that statistical studies estimating these relationships are biased. We conclude with an agenda for future research

  • The Economic Impacts of Climate Change

    Richard Sj TolARTICLEReview of Environmental Economics…2018

    This article reviews the economic impacts of climate change and the policy implications of the results. Current estimates indicate that climate change will likely have a limited impact on the economy and human welfare in the twenty-first century. In fact, the initial impacts of climate change may well be positive. However, in the long run the negative impacts dominate the positive ones. Negative impacts will be substantially greater in poorer, ho…

  • Mediterranean Unesco World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise

    Open AccessLena Reimann, Athanasios T Vafeidis et al.ARTICLENature Communications2018

    UNESCO World Heritage sites (WHS) located in coastal areas are increasingly at risk from coastal hazards due to sea-level rise. In this study, we assess Mediterranean cultural WHS at risk from coastal flooding and erosion under four sea-level rise scenarios until 2100. Based on the analysis of spatially explicit WHS data, we develop an index-based approach that allows for ranking WHS at risk from both coastal hazards. Here we show that of 49 cult…

  • Temperature shocks, short-term growth and poverty thresholds

    Open AccessMarco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 10References: 11

  • Impact of natural disasters on income inequality in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessSubhani Keerthiratne, Richard Sj TolARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 9References: 4

  • Debating climate economics

    Open AccessRichard Sj TolARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2016References: 1

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Open AccessJochen Hinkel, Daniël Lincke et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2014

    Significance Coastal flood damages are expected to increase significantly during the 21st century as sea levels rise and socioeconomic development increases the number of people and value of assets in the coastal floodplain. Estimates of future damages and adaptation costs are essential for supporting efforts to reduce emissions driving sea-level rise as well as for designing strategies to adapt to increasing coastal flood risk. This paper presen…

  • One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

    Open AccessHalvard Buhaug, Jonas Nordkvelle et al.ARTICLEClimatic Change2014

    A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific evidence for a link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing markedly from other contemporary assessments of the empirical literature. This commentary revisits the review in order to understand the discrepancy. We believe the origins of the disagreement can be traced back to the review article’s underlying quantitative meta-analys…

  • Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAlvaro Calzadilla, Tingju Zhu et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2013

  • Does the Housing Market Reflect Cultural Heritage? A Case Study of Greater Dublin

    Open AccessMirko Moro, Karen Mayor et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2013Cited by: 6References: 35

    Does the housing market reflect cultural heritage? We estimate several specifications of a hedonic price equation to establish whether distance to, and density of, cultural heritage site is capitalised into housing prices in Greater Dublin, Ireland. We use a very rich dataset of housing and neighbourhood characteristics and include 104 location-fixed effects, which represent very small areas, ensuring the identification of the price effects on si…

  • Green growth

    Open AccessJohn Zsyman, Mark Huberty et al.ARTICLEIntereconomics2012

    Green growth is now a central theme of the international climate change negotiations. The Rio+20 Conference in June will concentrate on green growth as one of its main priorities. The Europe 2020 strategy has identified green growth as a fundamental pillar of EU economic policy. This Forum takes stock of the academic discussion and examines the theoretical and empirical underpinning of the concepts of green growth and employment through environme…

  • A unifying framework for metrics for aggregating the climate effect of different emissions

    Open AccessRichard S J Tol, Richard Sj Tol et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    Multi-gas approaches to climate change policies require a metric establishing equivalences among emissions of various species. Climate scientists and economists have proposed four kinds of such metrics and debated their relative merits. We present a unifying framework that clarifies the relationships among them. We show, as have previous authors, that the global warming potential (GWP), used in international law to compare emissions of greenhouse…

  • Climate damages in the Fund model

    Open AccessDavid Anthoff, Richard S J Tol et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2012

  • Civil war, climate change, and development

    Open AccessConor Devitt, Richard Sj TolARTICLEJournal of Peace Research2012Cited by: 8References: 69

    This article presents a model of development, civil war and climate change. There are multiple interactions. Economic growth reduces the probability of civil war and the vulnerability to climate change. Climate change increases the probability of civil war. The impacts of climate change, civil war and civil war in the neighbouring countries reduce economic growth. The model has two potential poverty traps - one is climate-change-induced and one i…

  • Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a ‘beyond 4°C world’ in the twenty-first century

    Open AccessRobert J Nicholls, Natasha Marinova et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Transactions of the…2011

    The range of future climate-induced sea-level rise remains highly uncertain with continued concern that large increases in the twenty-first century cannot be ruled out. The biggest source of uncertainty is the response of the large ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica. Based on our analysis, a pragmatic estimate of sea-level rise by 2100, for a temperature rise of 4°C or more over the same time frame, is between 0.5 m and 2 m—the probabili…

  • Public policy towards the sale of state assets in troubled times

    Open AccessPaul K Gorecki, Seán Lyons et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2011References: 1

  • International climate policy and regional welfare weights

    Open AccessDaiju Narita, Richard Sj Tol et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2010

  • The Direct Impact of Climate Change on Regional Labor Productivity

    Tord Kjellstrom, Stephen Kovat et al.ARTICLEArchives of Environmental &…2009

    Global climate change will increase outdoor and indoor heat loads, and may impair health and productivity for millions of working people. This study applies physiological evidence about effects of heat, climate guidelines for safe work environments, climate modeling, and global distributions of working populations to estimate the impact of 2 climate scenarios on future labor productivity. In most regions, climate change will decrease labor produc…

  • Risk aversion, time preference, and the social cost of carbon

    Open AccessDavid Anthoff, Richard S J Tol et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2009

    The Stern Review reported a social cost of carbon of over $300/tC, calling for ambitious climate policy. We here conduct a systematic sensitivity analysis of this result on two crucial parameters: the rate of pure time preference, and the rate of risk aversion. We show that the social cost of carbon lies anywhere in between 0 and $120 000/tC. However, if we restrict these two parameters to matching observed behaviour, an expected social cost of c…

  • Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change

    Open AccessDavid Anthoff, Cameron Hepburn et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2009