Introduction
Environmental policy fails less often for want of instruments than for want of measurement and compliance. This line examines both. One group of papers builds spatial measurement where official statistics are thin, mapping deforestation frontiers in Central America’s tropical moist forests from satellite imagery, estimating the air-quality cost of agricultural straw burning in China from Landsat-8 data, and tracing the carbon-emission network of aviation across the Yangtze River Delta.
A second group asks whether environmental commitments survive contact with incentives. Chinese carbon markets stabilise emissions even when political oversight weakens, which suggests the market mechanism does work that monitoring alone would not. Corporate ESG disclosure often does not: measuring the gap between what listed firms say and what they do gives a direct estimate of environmental lip service. Alongside these sits a smaller behavioural thread on energy use by building occupants, on food security through insect protein, and on urban green space as a nature-based route to resilience.
A third group turns the same behavioural lens on climate risk in housing markets: a programme on the under-capitalisation of climate risk asks why markets under-respond to hazards households can see coming. Across three UK perils, flood, heat, and coastal erosion, it reads proprietary Rightmove search and listing data to catch the intent to adapt that forms under a hazard’s salience and fades before it is acted on. The finding runs through all three: search reorients but does not convert into moves or capitalised prices, the signal is faint or mis-aimed, and the under-response falls hardest on the exposed and least mobile.
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Publications
- Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
- From participation to partnership: A systematic review of public engagement in sustainable urban planning
- Impact of straw burning on air quality in China: An empirical analysis based on Landsat-8 moderate resolution satellite monitoring data
- Mapping deforestation frontiers in Central America’s tropical moist forests
- Network analysis of aviation carbon emissions: Spatiotemporal patterns and policy implications in the Yangtze River Delta
- Political uncertainty and carbon emission trading: Evidence from China
- Improving food security through entomophagy: can behavioural interventions influence consumer preference for edible insects?
- Behavior Change of Building Users and Energy Consumption