Organisation
London School of Economics (LSE)
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a social science universities.
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist university with an international intake and a global reach. Its research and teaching span the full breadth of the social sciences, from economics, politics and law to sociology, anthropology, accounting and finance. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the university has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence.
Published Documents
- Unburnable carbon 2013: wasted capital and stranded assets
- London School of Economics, 2013
- According to this report, despite fossil fuel reserves already far exceeding the carbon budget to avoid global warming of more than two degrees Celsius, US$674 billion was spent in 2012 finding and developing new potentially stranded ...
- Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: emerging powers and Africa
- C. Alden / London School of Economics, 2010
- Over the last fifteen years, emerging powers have made significant inroads into Western political and economic dominance in Africa. The result is a diversification of external actors involved across a range of sectors of the African e...
- Green growth: economic theory and political discourse
- London School of Economics, 2012
- This paper explores the concept of green growth in international policy discourse. It distinguishes between a ‘standard’ version, which asserts the long-run economic benefit of environmental protection, and a ‘strong...
- Achieving low carbon development in developing economies
- A. Bowen; S. Fankhauser / London School of Economics, 2011
- This paper argues that least developed countries (LDCs) are greatly threatened by human induced climate change, because their dependence on rain-fed agriculture and forestry as sources of employment and income make them vulnerable to ...
