Dean Spears

I am Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director at Research Institute for Compassionate Economics. I am also visiting economist at Indian Statistical

Nature Communications  Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s

World Bank Economic Review 33, 21-40 Abstract How much should the present generations sacrifice to reduce emissions today, in order to reduce the future harms of climate change? Within climate economics,

Harper Collins India’s air pollution is a deadly threat. Will its politics meet the challenge? Exposure to the world’s worst air pollution kills over a million Indians each year. It also affects childr

I Budolfson, M, McPherson, Tristram & D. Plunkett (eds), Philosophy and Climate Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. From the introduction [...] we believe that philosophical work on climat

Working paper series 2021:1-10 Joe Roussos & Paul Bowman (eds) This volume comprises the third collection of working papers by researchers within the program Climate ethics and future generations.Th

Working paper series 2020:1–11. Paul Bowman & Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (eds) This volume comprises the second round of preprint papers written as part of the Climate ethics and future generations

Research on population change, ageing and the economy, by Dean Spears, researcher in the project “Sustainable population in the time of climate change” at IFFS, is cited in "The Economic Report of the".

Seminar on "Sustainable Population in the Time of Climate Change". This is an internal seminar for IFFS only.  The seminar will have five sessions. Each session is 30 minutes, ca 20 min presentation and

Jason J. Czarnezki: Linking Environmental Law, Climate Justice and Global Security (webinarium)

Jason J. Czarnezki, Olof Palme visiting Professor, Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives, Elisab