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Timber nation: architecture, forest industry, and the construction of Finnishness
No full textThis thesis examines the politics of timber, a national resource vested with vital potentiality in Finnish architecture. Over the past decade, new engineered wooden products and decarbonisation efforts have recast timber from a modest rural material into an innovative resource for low-carbon urban development. The transformation of nature to provision the urban realm is an essential feature of urban modernity, yet urban researchers have often taken the natural resources for granted, whilst resource geographers have focused on the rural landscapes of resource production. In contrast, this thesis analyses resource-making and city-making as mutually imbricated processes. Drawing on multilocal ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with architects and public officials, the thesis argues that the resurgence of timber construction as a national project in Finland arises in response to experiences of faltering progress at different levels of society, compounded by global instability, neoliberal reforms and public austerity. In architecture, choosing timber offers a moral uplift in increasingly technocratic and financialised construction projects, but in a northern logging town it also surfaces new tensions between the promise of sustainable regeneration and intensifying forest harvesting. In suburban housing, timber represents a break from concrete to build an image of green middle-class living. Across these distinct topographies, the politics and aesthetics of timber are structured by an ideology of improvement and social differentiation that inscribes ideas of Finnishness onto changing landscapes. Even as timber architecture trades on uplifting metaphors of socioecological reconciliation, it simultaneously obscures and naturalises the extractive and exclusionary dynamics underlying the fractured present
Replication Data for: How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
No full textField experiment on migration from Northeast India to Gulf Regio
Replication Data for: 'Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field'
No full textThe programs replicate tables and figures from "Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field," by Jiang, Liu, Peng, and Yan. (2025-07-22
Replication Package Claridge Delabastita Gibbs EcHR 2025
No full textReplication package for the manuscript "The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
What does “open research” mean for qualitative research?
Get PDFOpen research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent methods and the sensitivity of data from marginalised people mean that openness takes many different forms
Ten queer South Asian reads for LGBT+ History Month 2025
Get PDFIn this reading list for LGBT+ History Month 2025, Rohit K. Dasgupta (LSE Department of Gender Studies) shares a selection of 10 recent books exploring LGBTQ+ culture, politics and history in South Asia that have motivated and inspired his research
A fair deal for the sustainable development of the Congo Basin countries and the protection of the rainforest
No full textThe Congo Basin forests, including the world’s second largest rainforest after the Amazon, cover more than 300 million hectares across 11 countries in Central Africa. They represent the world’s largest land-based carbon sink, and provide a unique and vital biodiversity haven. Development, commercial and demographic pressures have increased considerably in the Congo Basin, particularly since 2010, leading to rising deforestation and degradation in its forests. While recent analysis has suggested that the rate of deforestation has decreased significantly over the past five years, and that it is now less than half, in percentage terms, of that experienced in the Amazon Basin, nearly 10% of the Congo Basin’s forest area was lost between 1990 and 2025. There are also signs that the impacts of climate change are beginning to adversely affect the absorption of carbon dioxide by the Congo Basin forests. Given these threats, this is a critical moment for the forests’ future. This report highlights the gap between the value of the natural capital of the Congo Basin rainforest and the forestry revenues of the countries that cover it. The authors show how destructive and degrading forestry practices in the countries of the Congo Basin currently produce only a fraction of the value of the available natural capital and call for a genuine ‘fair deal’ that would enable the protection of the Congo Basin and the sustainable development of the countries that cover it
Just Energy Transition Partnership grants and country platforms: lessons from Indonesia and South Africa
No full textJust Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are political agreements between a group of donor countries and an emerging economy partner country to mobilise and coordinate public and private finance to support a just energy transition. When they were initially launched in 2021 they represented a turning point in international climate finance towards a more comprehensive, country-led approach linking emissions mitigation with social equity in coal-dependent economies. However, their disproportionate reliance on loans has been suggested to have put the ‘just’ component of the transition at risk, particularly in countries already grappling with mounting debt and fiscal constraints. Country platforms build on the ambitions of JETPs in mobilising and coordinating public and private finance to support a just energy transition while placing greater emphasis on country ownership, coherence, and integration into long-term development and climate objectives. This report analyses the grant distribution of JETPs in Indonesia and South Africa to support future country platform design
Essays in urban and environmental economics
No full textThis thesis comprises four independent chapters at the intersection of urban, environmental, and development economics. The first chapter presents novel evidence on how temperature fluctuations affect wealth inequality in both rural and urban settings. The second investigates how land scarcity drives urban expansion into high flood risk zones. The third evaluates the impact of flood defence investments on local population growth, leveraging a unique institutional setting in Vietnam. The final chapter analyzes the local economic effects of relocating economic activity across space using the BBC’s move from London to Manchester as a natural experiment
Replication Data for: Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
No full textThis is the replication package for "Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research," accepted in 2025 by the Journal of Political Economy