Peer reviewed journal articles
Gibney, Garreth, Thomas K.J. McDermott and John Cullinan (2023) “Temperature, Morbidity and Behaviour in Milder Climates”, Economic Modelling, 118: 106106.
Castells-Quintana, David, Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe, Thomas K.J. McDermott (2022). “Population displacement and urban conflict: Global evidence from more than 3300 flood events”, Journal of Development Economics, 158: 102922
McDermott, T.K.J. (2022). “Global exposure to flood risk and poverty”, Nature Communications 13: 3529.
Vila, Daniel and Thomas K.J. McDermott (2022). “On the frontlines
An exploratory analysis of unequal exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 in the United States”, International Journal for Equity in Health, 21: 105.
Doherty, Edel, Thomas K.J. McDermott, Sinead Mellett, Danny Norton, Denis O’Hora and Mary Ryan (2021).“A discrete choice experiment exploring farmer preferences for insurance against extreme weather events”, Journal of Environmental Management , 290: 112607.
Castells-Quintana, D., M. Krause and T.K.J. McDermott (2021) “The urbanising force of global warming: The role of climate change in the spatial distribution of population”, Journal of Economic Geography. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaa030
Kocornik-Mina, A, T.K.J. McDermott, G. Michaels, and F. Rauch (2020) “Flooded Cities”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12 (2): 35-66.
Kilgarriff, Paul, T.K.J. McDermott, Amaya Vega, Karyn Morrissey and Cathal O’Donoghue (2018) “The impact of flooding disruption on the spatial distribution of commuter’s income“, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21606544.2018.1502098
How normative interpretations of climate risk assessment affect local decision-making: an exploratory study at the city scale in Cork, Ireland”,
Castells-Quintana, David, Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe, and Thomas K.J. McDermott (2018) “Adaptation to climate change: A review through a development economics lens”, World Development 104 April 2018: 183-196.
Castells-Quintana, D., M.D. Lopez-Uribe and T.K.J. McDermott (2017) “Geography, institutions and development: A review of the long-run impacts of climate change”, Climate and Development 9(5): 452-470. DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2016.1167665
Millner, A. and T.K.J. McDermott (2016) “On model confirmation in climate economics”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, .
Baur, D.G. and T.K.J. McDermott (2016) “Why is Gold a Safe Haven?” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 10:63-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2016.03.002
Fankhauser, S. and T.K.J. McDermott (2014). “Understanding the Adaptation Deficit: Why are Poor Countries More Vulnerable to Climate Events than Rich Countries?” Global Environmental Change 27:9-18.
McDermott, T.K.J., F. Barry and R.S.J. Tol (2014). “Disasters and Development: Natural Disasters, Credit Constraints and Economic Growth”. Oxford Economic Papers 66(3):750-773.
McDermott, T.K.J. (2011). “On Natural Disasters and Economic Development”. Trinity College Dublin Journal of Postgraduate Research 10:54-66 [pdf].
Baur, D.G. & T.K. McDermott (2010). “Is Gold a Safe Haven? International Evidence”. Journal of Banking and Finance, 34(8):1886-98.
Books & Book Chapters
Castells-Quintana, D., Krause, M., McDermott, T.K.J. (2022). Climate Change and the Spatial Concentration of Population. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_25-1
The Economics of Climate Resilient Development, co-edited with Sam Fankhauser. Edward Elgar (July 2016). Webpage here. Online version here.
Endorsements:
“This book brings much-needed nuance and evidence to the complicated relationship between vulnerability and climate change – A must-read for all interested in climate and development.” – Prof Richard Tol (U. Sussex)
“This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature [and] also provides timely guidance to policy practitioners on how to make climate resilient development a reality.” – Dr Shardul Agrawala (Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division at the OECD Environment Directorate)
“An extremely timely book … it should be read not only by students of development and planning but also by practitioners, in both the public and private sectors, whose development choices will affect future vulnerabilities to climate change.” – Dame Prof Judith Rees (London School of Economics)
“Climate resilient development: An introduction” (with Sam Fankhauser) in The economics of climate resilient development (Fankhauser and McDermott, eds). Edward Elgar (2016). Available online (free download of pdf).
“The role of climate in development” (with David Castells-Quintana and Maria Lopez-Uribe) in The economics of climate resilient development (Fankhauser and McDermott, eds). Edward Elgar (2016).
“Coping with climate risk: The options” (with David Castells-Quintana and Maria Lopez-Uribe) in The economics of climate resilient development (Fankhauser and McDermott, eds). Edward Elgar (2016).
McDermott, T.K.J. “Investing in Disaster Risk Management in an Uncertain Climate”, in Surminski, S. and T. Tanner (eds) Realising the Triple Resilience Dividend: A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management, Springer (2016).
Also published as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No.7631.
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