Dr Shaikh Eskander

About

An environmental economist, I apply applied econometric and microeconomic methods to investigate issues on climate and energy policy and sustainable development related issues. My recent research has been published by Nature Climate Change, NBER, Environmental & Resource Economics, Land EconomicsWorld Development, and Ecological Economics, among others. 

I supervise PhD theses on environmental and development economics (completed: 1, on-going: 2). I currently serve as the director of postgraduate research in economics. Please get in touch at Shaikh.Eskander@Kingston.ac.uk if you have a question about Economics PhD program at Kingston.

My external research affiliations include visiting fellow with Grantham Research Institute at LSE, research associate with CAMA at Australian National University, non-resident fellow with CDES at Monash University, and courtesy research assistant professor at Florida Int'l University. In the past, I worked at the London School of Economics and the University of Dhaka. I also consulted for many international organizations including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

For more information, please visit my personal website: https://www.shaikheskander.com/ or google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WcF0S1MAAAAJ&hl=en.

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Qualifications

  • PhD Economics, University of Wyoming, 2015
  • MA Economics, Carleton University, 2010
  • MSS Economics, University of Dhaka, 2005
  • BSS (Hon.) Economics, University of Dhaka, 2003
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA)

Teaching and learning

My current teaching includes microeconomics, industrial economics, development economics and applied econometrics. I also serve as an external examiner at the University of Chichester. 

I supervise undergraduate dissertations, MA/MS/MSc dissertations and PhD theses on environmental and development economics. 

Undergraduate courses taught

Research

I am currently working on sustainable development and climate change related issues. My ongoing research projects include

  • Political economy of Climate legislation and litigation (with Sam Fankhauser (Oxford))
  • Climate, gender and entrepreneurship (with Kate Gannon (LSE))
  • Energy use efficiency
  • Livestock Productivity and CO2 Emissions (with FAO)
  • Natural Resource Use and Management under Risk (with Ed Barbier (CSU))
  • Climate finance (with IIED and UNDP)

For more information, please visit my personal website: https://www.shaikheskander.com/ or google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WcF0S1MAAAAJ&hl=en.

Research student supervision

Publications

Number of items: 30.

Article

Li, Shuping, Meng, Jing, Hubacek, Klaus, Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U., Li, Yuan, Chen, Peipei and Guan, Dabo (2024) Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets. Nature Climate Change, 14(5), pp. 468-475. ISSN (print) 1758-678X

Eskander, Shaikh, Higham, Catherine, Hamley, Maggie, Setzer, Joana and Fankhauser, Samuel (2024) Testing the ambition loop : do country- and company-level net-zero targets reinforce each other? A global comparison. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, ISSN (print) 1387-6988 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Eskander, Shaikh M. S. U. and Fankhauser, Sam (2023) The impact of climate legislation on trade-related carbon emissions 1996–2018. Environmental and Resource Economics, ISSN (print) 0924-6460 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Eskander, Shaikh M. S. U. and Steele, Paul (2023) Private disaster expenditures by rural Bangladeshi households : evidence from survey data. Climate and Development, ISSN (print) 1756-5529 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Istiak, Khandokar (2022) Energy efficiency and CO2 emissions : evidence from the UK universities. Applied Economics, ISSN (print) 0003-6846 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Eskander, Shaikh M. S. U. (2022) The heterogeneity of energy transition. Nature Energy, ISSN (online) 2058-7546 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Barbier, Edward B. (2022) Long-term impacts of the 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh. World Development, 152, p. 105793. ISSN (print) 0305-750X

Eskander, Shaikh M. S. U. and Fankhauser, Sam (2022) Income diversification and income inequality : household responses to the 2013 floods in Pakistan. Sustainability, 14(1), p. 453. ISSN (online) 2071-1050

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Nitschke, Jakob (2021) Energy use and CO2 emissions in the UK universities : an extended Kaya identity analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 309, p. 127199. ISSN (print) 0959-6526

Eskander, Shaikh and Fankhauser, Sam (2021) How well do climate laws help reduce global warming? Science Journal for Kids and Teens,

Eskander, Shaikh and Fankhauser, Sam (2021) G7 climate laws 'cut emissions by 1.3bn tonnes in 2019'. Carbon Brief,

Eskander, Shaikh, Fankhauser, Sam and Setzer, Joana (2020) Can climate change legislation keep its momentum? Principles for Responsible Investment Blog,

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Fankhauser, Sam (2020) Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation. Nature Climate Change, 10, pp. 750-756. ISSN (print) 1758-678X

Eskander, Shaikh and Fankhauser, Sam (2020) The impact of current climate policies on greenhouse gas emissions. Grantham Research Institute,

Eskander, Shaikh and Steele, Paul (2019) Rural households in Bangladesh are shouldering the country's climate burden. The Daily Star,

Crick, Florence, Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U., Fankhauser, Sam and Diop, Mamadou (2018) How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal. World Development, 108, pp. 157-168. ISSN (print) 0305-750X

Crick, Florence and Eskander, Shaikh (2018) How businesses in sub-Saharan Africa are adapting to climate change. LSE Business Review,

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U., Barbier, Edward B. and Gilbert, Benjamin (2018) Fishing and nonfishing income decisions : the role of human capital and family structure. Land Economics, 94(1), pp. 114-136. ISSN (print) 0023-7639

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Barbier, Edward B. (2017) Tenure security, human capital and soil conservation in an overlapping generation rural economy. Ecological Economics, 135, pp. 176-185. ISSN (print) 0921-8009

Book Section

Eskander, Shaikh Muhammed Shahid Uddin (2011) A policy scan of ODA in the education sector : Bangladesh. In: Khan, Maria Lourdes Almazan , Castillo, Raquel De Guzman , Lovegrove, Bernard , Raya, Rene , Tanvir, Mohammad Muntasim and Claridad, Claudine D., (eds.) ODA for education in Asia and the Pacific. Asia South Pacific Association for Basic & Adult Education. pp. 43-66. ISBN 8127800470

Conference or Workshop Item

Eskander, Shaikh, Fankhauser, Sam and Setzer, Joana (2020) Lessons from global trends in climate change legislation and litigation. In: NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Meeting; 21 May 2020, Online.

Eskander, Shaikh (2019) Energy efficiency in UK Universities. In: 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business and Social Sciences in a period of uncertainty; 03 - 04 Jun 2019, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Eskander, Shaikh and Barbier, Edward (2019) Legacies of gusts and bloods : long-term impacts of the series of 1970-74 disasters in Bangladesh. In: 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business and Social Sciences in a period of uncertainty; 03 - 04 Jun 2019, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Submitted)

Eskander, Shaikh and Barbier, Edward (2018) Adaptation to natural disasters through the agricultural land rental market : evidence from Bangladesh. In: Allied Social Science Associations 2018 Annual meeting; 05 - 07 Jan 2018, Philadelphia, U.S..

Monograph

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Istiak, Khandokar (2021) Energy efficiency and CO2 emissions in the UK universities. (Working Paper) Canberra, Australia : Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis. 34 p. (CAMA Working Paper, no. 94/2021)

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. and Fankhauser, Sam (2021) The impact of climate legislation on trade-related carbon emissions 1997-2017. (Working Paper) London, U.K. : London School of Economics and Political Science. 45 p. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper, no. 395/367)

Ludi, Eva, Nathe, Nathalie, Gueye, Bara, Suleri, Abid, Ndin, Rebecca, Fankhauser, Sam, Jobbins, Guy, Sisodia, Rajeshree, Pasanen, Tiina, Fonua, Helen, Carabine, Elizabeth, Salik, Kashif, Quaisrani, Ayesha, Wade, Cheikh, Gannon, Kate, Crick, Florence, Newborne, Peter, Bedelian, Claire, Eskander, Shaikh, Clare, Abbie, Batool, Samavia, Stockwell, Catherine, Rouhaud, Estelle and Embrose, Kaia (2019) Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies (PRISE) CARIAA consortium report February 2014 - November 2018. (Project Report) International Development Research Centre. 120 p.

Eskander, Shaikh, Fankhauser, Sam, Jha, Shikha, Batool, Samavia and Qaisrani, Ayesha (2018) Do natural disasters change savings and employment choices? Evidence from Pakistan. (Working Paper) London, U.K. : Grantham Research Institute. 36 p. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper, no. 328/293)

Eskander, Shaikh and Barbier, Edward (2017) Adaptation to natural disasters through the agricultural land rental market : evidence from Bangladesh. (Working Paper) London, U.K. : Grantham Research Institute. 51 p. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper, no. 266/236)

Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U., Fankhauser, Samuel and Jha, Shikha (2016) Do natural disasters change savings and employment choices? Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan. (Working Paper) Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank. 29 p. (ADB Economics Working Paper Series, no. 505)

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