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Climate Publications from ECI in 2007

Below are a list of key recent outputs from the ECI in relation to climate change policy debates. For a list of all publications and outputs from the ECI please see our full publications list.

  1. Boardman, B. 2007 Home Truths: A low carbon strategy to reduce UK housing emissions by 80% Research Report for Co-operative Bank and Friends of the Earth. 27 November 2007
  2. Boardman, B., Darby, S., Killip, G., Hinnells, M., Jardine, C.N., Palmer, J., and Sinden, G., 2005 40% House. Environmental Change Institute Research Report Number 31
  3. Boyd E., Hultman N E., Roberts T., Corbera E., Ebeling J., Liverman D, Brown K, Tippmann R., Cole J., Mann P, Kaiser M., Robbins M,. 2007 The Clean Development Mechanism: An assessment of current practice and future approaches for policy: Tyndall Centre Working Paper 114
  4. Boyd, E. Scalar approaches in the new carbon economy: deliberating the social consequences of carbon sequestration programmes. Environment and Planning A. In review
  5. Boyd, E., Hultman, N. et al. Governing CDM for sustainable development: Lessons learned and future prospects. Environmental Science and Policy. In review
  6. Boyd, E. Governing carbon markets for development: lessons from a carbon sequestration project in Bolivian Amazonia Development and Change. In review
  7. Boyd, E. Corbera, E., Kjellen, B., Gutierrez M., Estrada M. UNFCCC negotiations (pre-Kyoto to COP-9): What the process says about the politics of sinks and CDM International Environmental Agreements. In review
  8. Boyd, E. On the road to carbon governance: Exploring scale challenges in the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia. Global Environmental Change. In review
  9. Boyd, E., May P., Veiga, F., Chang, M. 2007. Can the CDM bring sustainable development? Insights from carbon forestry projects in Brazil and Bolivia. Environmental Science and Policy 10 (5): 419-433.
  10. Boyd, E, Gutierrez, M and Chang, M. 2007. Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities, Global Environmental Change 17 (2): 250-259.
  11. Mansfield, M & Boyd, E. 2007 Commodifying Carbon: The Ethics of Markets in Nature. ECI Workshop Report, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, July 2007.
  12. Lemos, M. C., Boyd, E., Tompkins, E.L., Osbahr, H. and Liverman, D. 2007. Developing adaptation and adapting development. Ecology and Society 12(2): 26.
  13. M. Boykoff, D. Frame and S. Randalls, Stabilize this! How the discourse of ‘climate stabilization’ became and remains entrenched in climate science-policy/practice interactions, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. In review.
  14. Bumpus A.G. and Liverman D.M. 2007. Accumulation by decarbonisation and the governance of carbon offsets. Economic Geography. In press.
  15. Ericksen, P.J., (2007) Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research. Available online 25 October 2007. Global Environmental Change. In Press
  16. Allen, M., Frame, D. 2007 Abandon the Quest! Uncertainty in climate sensitivity—the long-term warming response to doubling carbon dioxide may not be a problem after all, unless the politicians choose to turn it into one. Science Vol 318. p582-583.
  17. D. J. Frame, N. E. Faull, M. M. Joshi & M. R. Allen. 2007. Probabilistic climate forecasts and inductive problems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2069 2007.
  18. D. Frame and M. Allen, 2007. Climate Change and Global Risk, Chapter in Global Catastrophic Risks, N. Bostrom and M. Cirkovic eds. Oxford University Press: Oxford. In press.
  19. C. G. Knight, S. H. E. Knight, N. Massey, T. Aina, C. Christensen, D. J. Frame, J. A. Kettleborough, A. Martin, S. Pascoe, B. Sanderson, D. A. Stainforth, M. R. Allen. 2007. Association of parameter, software and hardware variation with large scale behavior across 57,000 climate models PNAS, July 2007.
  20. M. Allen, P. Pall, D. Stone, P. Stott, D. Frame, S.-K. Min, T. Nozawa, and S. Yukimoto. 2007. Scientific challenges in the attribution of harm to human influence on climate. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 155, 6, 1353-1400.
  21. C. Piani, T. Aina, C. Christensen, D. Frame, N. Faull and M. Allen. 2007. Regional probabilistic climate forecasts from a multi-thousand, multi-model ensemble of simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research. In press.
  22. B. M. Sanderson, R. Knutti, T. Aina, C. M. Christensen, N. E. Faull, D. J. Frame, W. J. Ingram, C. Piani, D. A. Stainforth, D. A. Stone and M. R. Allen. 2007. Constraints on model response to greenhouse gas forcing and the rose of sub-grid scale processes, Journal of Climate. In press.
  23. Helgeson, J. - ECI MSc Dissertation 2007 "Climate Ethics Survey: Disentangling Public Risk Preferences from Inequality & Time.
  24. Liverman D.M. 2007. Assessing Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Reflections on the Working Group II Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Global Environmental Change. In press.
  25. Liverman D.M. 2007. From Uncertain to Unequivocal The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change. Environment Vol 49 No 8 pp 36-39.
  26. Lovell, H., Buckley, H. and Liverman, D., 2007. Carbon offsetting: sustaining consumption?
  27. Lovell, H. and Bumpus, A. 2007.'Voluntary & compliance market perspectives on carbon finance' Presentation from Bali COP side event, 7 December 2007.
  28. Malhi, Y., Roberts, T., Betts, R., Killeen, T., Li, W., Nobre, C. 2007. Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon. Science Express
  29. Malhi Y. 2007. Carbon in the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere in the early Anthropocene, in Advances in Science (editor P. Sammonds), Cambridge University Press.
  30. Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., Roman-Cuesta, R.M., Saatchi, S., Anderson, L.O., and Shimabukuro, Y.E. 2007. Spatial patterns and fire response of recent Amazonian droughts. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(7).
  31. Parmentier, I., Malhi, Y., Senterre, B., Whittaker, R.J. et al. 2007. The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? Journal of Ecology.
  32. D.B. Metcalfe, M. Williams, L.E.O.C. Aragão, A.C. Costa, S. Almeida, A. Braga, P. Goncalves, J. Junior, Y. Malhi, P. Meir. 2007. A method for extracting plant roots from soil which facilitates rapid sample processing withoutcompromising measurement accuracy. New Phytologist.
  33. Malhi, Y., Wood, D., Baker, T.R., et al. 2006. The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology, 12(7): 1107-1138.
  34. Okereke C., Mann P., Osbahr H. 2007. Assessment of key negotiating issues at Nairobi climate COP/MOP and what it means for the future of the climate regime: Tyndall Centre Working Paper No. 106 June 2007.
  35. Mann, P. 2007. Energy Planning in Developing Countries - facing the challenges of equitable access, secure supply and climate change. A research scoping study for UK Department for International Development. ECI, University of Oxford, ESD Ltd, CEEEZ, ESD Africa and PDG ltd. For further information contact Philip Mann at
  36. Sælen, H - ECI MSc Dissertation 2007 "Risk, Inequality and Time: How Can Public Attitudes Be Incorporated Better Into The Economics of Climate Change?
  37. Okereke C., Bulkeley H, Schroeder H. 2007. Conceptualizing Climate Governance beyond the International Regime
  38. Young, O., King, L.A., and Schroeder, H. 2007. Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. MIT Press. In press.