Network economics and the environment: insights and perspectives

Currarini, Sergio, Marchiori, Carmen and Tavoni, Alessandro ORCID: 0000-0002-2057-5720 (2016) Network economics and the environment: insights and perspectives. Environmental and Resource Economics, 65 (1). pp. 159-189. ISSN 0924-6460

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Abstract

Local interactions and network structures appear to be a prominent feature of many environmental problems. This paper discusses a wide range of issues and potential areas of application, including the role of relational networks in the pattern of adoption of green technologies, common pool resource problems characterized by a multiplicity of sources, the role of social networks in multi-level environmental governance, infrastructural networks in the access to and use of natural resources such as oil and natural gas, the use of networks to describe the internal structure of inter-country relations in international agreements, and the formation of bilateral “links” in the process of building up an environmental coalition. For each of these areas, we examine why and how network economics would be an effective conceptual and analytical tool, and discuss the main insights that we can foresee.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://link.springer.com/journal/10640
Additional Information:	© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Divisions:	Geography & Environment Grantham Research Institute
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2015 13:07
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 07:00
Projects:	ES/K006576/1
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63951

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