Andrew Sudmant

Biographic Data

ID6310872
NAMEAndrew Sudmant
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMESudmant
SIGNATURESUDMANT A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0001-8650-8419
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS39
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Valuing the wider benefits of net zero

    Open AccessJoshua Lait, Timothy J Foxon et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2025References: 15

    Highlighting the wider economic, social, and environmental benefits of climate change mitigation can strengthen the investment case for action, support policy coordination, and enhance political feasibility. In the United Kingdom (UK), new assessment frameworks and tools are emerging to better recognise these co-benefits in national net-zero pathways, municipal policy processes, and public procurement. Yet limited attention has been paid to how t…

  • Infrastructure Transitions in Southern Cities

    Open AccessLucy Oates, Andrew SudmantARTICLEUrban Planning2024

    Rapidly growing cities in the Global South are characterised by high levels of vulnerability and informality and are expected to bear a disproportionate share of the costs of a changing climate. The confluence of climate change impacts, inequitable urbanisation processes, and under-development emphasise the need for accelerated urban transitions in Southern cities, yet mainstream theories of urban sustainability transitions have been shown to be …

  • Climate policy as social policy? A comprehensive assessment of the economic impact of climate action in the UK

    Open AccessAndrew Sudmant, D K Boyle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2024Cited by: 2References: 14

    Co-benefits are central to the case for climate action but are side-lined in many economic analyses. This paper presents an evaluation of three dimensions of the costs and benefits of climate change interventions in six urban regions of the UK. Findings indicate that meeting the UK’s 2033–2037 climate targets could yield £164 billion in total benefits. Notably, only 13% of these benefits are financial, in contrast to the 79% of which are social b…

  • Pluralizing the urban waste economy

    Open AccessLucy Oates, Peter Kasaija et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2023Cited by: 1References: 8

    The delivery of urban basic infrastructure services is often guided by the modern infrastructure ideal, which aims for technical innovation, economic efficiency and uniformity through long-term, centralized management approaches. In rapidly growing urban centres of the global South, however, heterogeneous infrastructure configurations have long involved multiple systems in varying degrees of coexistence. This paper explores how community-based en…

  • Fair weather forecasting? The shortcomings of big data for sustainable development, a case study from Hubballi‐Dharwad , India

    Open AccessAndrew Sudmant, Vincent Viguié et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2021References: 8

    Sustainable urban mobility is an essential component of sustainable development but requires careful planning in rapidly growing urban areas. This paper investigates the value and limitations of Big Data for evaluating transport policies, plans, and projects in Hubballi‐Dharwad, India. Results show how Big Data can enable the outcomes of transport interventions to be evaluated more readily than conventional transport analysis. However, the analys…

  • The scope for low‐carbon development in Kigali, Rwanda

    Open AccessSarah Colenbrander, Andrew Sudmant et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2018Cited by: 4References: 8

    Urban plans and infrastructure investments in sub‐Saharan Africa need to support human and economic development, while also helping countries and cities stay within the global carbon budget. To date, however, no analyses have focused on the economic costs and benefits of pursuing less carbon‐intensive urban growth in sub‐Saharan African cities. This is significant as the perception that low‐carbon urban development is more expensive than higher‐c…

  • Can low-carbon urban development be pro-poor? The case of Kolkata, India

    Open AccessSarah Colenbrander, Andrew Gouldson et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2016Cited by: 11References: 5

    Fast-growing cities in the global South have an important role to play in climate change mitigation. However, city governments typically focus on more pressing socioeconomic needs, such as reducing urban poverty. To what extent can social, economic and climate objectives be aligned? Focusing on Kolkata in India, we consider the economic case for low-carbon urban development, and assess whether this pathway could support wider social goals. We fin…

  • Cities and climate change mitigation

    Open AccessAndrew Gouldson, Andy Gouldson et al.ARTICLECities2016Cited by: 8References: 30

    Cities are central to the fight against climate change, but the IPCC recently noted that many cities — and particularly those in the developing world — lack the institutional, financial and technical capacities needed to switch to low emission development paths. Based on detailed case studies of three Asian cities, this paper finds that the adoption of low emission development strategies (LEDS) at the urban level could be economically attractive.…

  • Exploring the economic case for climate action in cities

    Open AccessAndrew Gouldson, Andy Gouldson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 13References: 4

    There is increasing interest in the potential of cities to contribute to climate mitigation. Multiple assessments have evaluated the scale and composition of urban GHG emissions, while others have evaluated some aspects of urban mitigation potential. However, assessments of mitigation potential tend to be broadly focused, few if any have evaluated urban mitigation potential on a measure-by-measure basis, and fewer still have considered the econom…