The UK government currently faces an unprecedented budget crisis. If it fails to curb government spending, the national debt will … Continue reading “Foreign aid target has no empirical basis and should be scrapped”

Executive Summary The book begins with an exploration of the development and meaning of the precautionary principle (PP). Definitions abound … Continue reading “Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle”

Executive Summary The world’s climate is in constant flux: on time-scales from days to millennia, global and regional temperature, wind … Continue reading “Climate Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom”

In the late 1980s governments and private sector companies developed seal of approval ‘ecolabels’ purporting to denote the most environment-friendly … Continue reading “Green Goods: Consumers, Product Labels and the Environment”

Pressure Groups, Foreign Aid and the Myth of Man-Made Deserts. The root causes of land degradation are the actions of … Continue reading “The Political Economy of Land Degradation”