A Taxonomy of Oil Spill Costs: What are the Likely Costs of theDeepwater Horizon Spill?

Who Pays, When, and How Much?: A Primer on Oil Spill Liability Law

The legal consequences of the ongoing BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, now the largest in U.S. history, will reverberate for years to come.

Co-Managing Natural Catastrophic Risks by the Insurance Industry and Government

This paper assesses current and potential roles of government in sustaining the insurability of climate-related perils across 13 country and US markets.

New Metrics for Measuring Energy Affordability, with Destenie Nock

Destenie Nock outlines the challenges of evaluating energy accessibility and the measures decisionmakers can take to get better data.

Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: The Tradeoff Between Protection and Exposure

This paper examines how communities balance adaptation infrastructure investments to address current problems without inducing future development in high-risk areas, focusing on public sewer expansion to address exposure of private septic systems to sea l