Publications

Schill, C., Wijermans, N., Schlüter, M., Lindahl, T., 2016. Cooperation Is Not Enough—Exploring Social-Ecological Micro-Foundations for Sustainable Common-Pool Resource Use. PLOS ONE 11, e0157796. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157796

Cooperation amongst resource users holds the key to overcoming the social dilemma that characterizes community-based common-pool resource management. But is cooperation alone enough to achieve sustainable resource use? The short answer is no. Developing management strategies in a complex social-ecological environment also requires ecological knowledge and approaches to deal with perceived environmental uncertainty. Recent beha...

Nyborg, K., Anderies, J.M., Dannenberg, A., Lindahl, T., Schill, C., Schlüter, M., Adger, W.N., Arrow, K.J., Barrett, S., Carpenter, S., et. al. 2016. Social norms as solutions. Science 354, 42–43.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, antibiotic resistance, and other global challenges pose major collective action problems: A group benefits from a certain action, but no individual has sufficient incentive to act alone. Formal institutions, e.g., laws and treaties, have helped address issues like ozone depletion, lead pollution, and acid rain. However, formal institutions are not always able to enforce collectively desirable...

Lindahl, T., B. Stikvoort. 2015. Nudging: The new black in environmental policy. Fores Study 2015:3. Stockholm, Sweden.

Nudging is increasingly receiving more attention from politicians, the media and academics. In 2014, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency published a report on the subject and Vetenskapsradion dedicated several programs towards the concept of nudging. In the United States, Britain and Australia, there are public institutions that actively work with nudging and researchers are trying to understand, criticize, reflect and...

Lindahl, T. 2015. Beteendevetenskap och miljöekonomi. Kapitel i boken Nationalekonomi för miljöintresserade (red Ulrika Stavlöt), Ivrig förlag.

I ”Nationalekonomi för miljöintresserade” resonerar tio nationalekonomer kring miljöproblem och hållbarhet. Den innehåller kapitel om ekonomisk tillväxt, om vad som driver teknisk utveckling, om BNP och andra välfärdsmått, om ändliga och förnybara resurser, om styrmedel och klimatekonomi, och om vad miljöekonomin lär från beteendevetenskapen. Boken är skriven för den ekonomiintresserade miljövännen och för den miljöintresserad...