Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Co-edited with Karl-Göran Mäler and Eric S. Maskin
“This volume of twenty essays seeks to honour Sir Partha Dasgupta and the field he helped establish: environment and development economics. With contributions by some of the world’s leading economists, including five recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics, in addition to scholars based in developing countries, this collection without any doubt leads the reader to desire more knowledge of Sir Partha Dasgupta and his body of work.”
Publication of this eBook, incorporating 35 chapters, was timed to coincide with the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), held in Paris in December 2015. The book was distributed at the conference, and presentations of the book were given there by all three editors, in addition to several of the chapter authors. When the book was in preparation, it wasn't obvious that an agreement would be reached; and we couldn't be sure what the treaty would say, should an agreement be reached. But we did have a very good sense for what the text of the treaty was likely to include, and the book offers not just a window into this possible treaty, but a view of the much larger landscape of the problem--and of all the things that will need to be done after Paris, whether or not an agreement was reached there. This agenda remains as relevant today as it was then. The book is available for free online here.
Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime, CEPR and FERDI eBook, 2015.
Co-edited with Carlo Carraro and Jaime de Melo