RICHARD PERKINS
Associate Professor of Environmental Geography, LSE
Publications
Diemer, A., Iammarino, S., Perkins, R., & Gros, A. (2025). Technology, resources and geography in a paradigm shift: the case of critical and conflict materials in ICTs. Regional Studies, 59(1), 1-13.
Buentjen, C., Perkins, R., & Sullivan, R. (2025). Net-zero norms in sustainable finance: what explains asset managers’ target-setting? Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 1-32.
Berger-Schmitz, Z., George, D., Hindal, C., Perkins, R., & Travaille, M. (2023). What explains firms’ net zero adoption, strategy and response? Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(8), 5583-5601.
Perkins, R. (2021). Governing for growth: standards, emergent markets and the lenient zone of qualification for green bonds. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(7), 2044-2061.
Clementino, E., & Perkins, R. (2020). How do companies respond to environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings? Evidence from Italy. Journal of Business Ethics, 171(2), 379-397.
Monk, A., & Perkins, R. (2020). What explains the emergence and diffusion of green bonds? Energy Policy, 145(1), 111641.
Perkins, R., & Nachmany, M. (2019). A very human business – transnational networking initiatives and domestic climate action. Global Environmental Change, 54(1), 250-259.
Rietig, K., & Perkins, R. (2017). Does learning matter for policy outcomes? The case of integrating climate finance into the EU budget. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(4), 487–505.
Chalmin-Pui, L. S., & Perkins, R. (2016). How do visitors relate to biodiversity conservation? An analysis of London Zoo’s ‘BUGS’ exhibit. Environmental Education Research, 23(10), 1462–1475.
Sharman, A., & Perkins, R. (2017). Post-decisional logics of inaction: The influence of knowledge controversy in climate policy decision-making. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 49(10), 2281-2299.
Gibbons, S., Neumayer, E., & Perkins, R. (2015). Student satisfaction, league tables and university applications: Evidence from Britain. Economics of Education Review, 48(1), 148-164.
Dechezleprêtre, A., Neumayer, E., & Perkins, E. (2015). Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: Evidence from automobile patents. Research Policy, 44(1), 244-257.
Perkins, R., Neumayer, E. (2014). Adoption and compliance in second-hand smoking bans: a global econometric analysis. International Journal of Public Health, 59, 859–866.
Perkins, R., Neumayer, R. (2013). Geographies of educational mobilities: exploring the uneven flows of international students. The Geographical Journal, 180(3), 246-259.
Perkins, R. (2013). Sustainable Development and the Making and Unmaking of a Developing World. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31(6), 1003-1022.
Bulkeley, H., Jordan, A., Perkins, R., & Selin, H. (2013). Governing Sustainability: Rio+20 and the Road beyond. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31(6), 958-970.
Perkins, R., Neumayer, E. (2012). The ties that bind: the role of migrants in the uneven geography of international telephone traffic. Global networks: a journal of transnational affairs, 13(1), 79-100.
Perkins, R., Neumayer, E. (2012). Do recipient country characteristics affect international spillovers of CO2-efficiency via trade and foreign direct investment? Climatic Change, 112(1), 469–491.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2012). Transnational economic and strategic interdependencies in the geography of extra territorial patent filings. London School of Economics.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2011). Does the ‘California effect’ operate across borders? Trading- and investing-up in automobile emission standards. Journal of European Public Policy, 19(2), 217–237.
Dechezleprêtre, A., Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2012). Regulatory distance and the transfer of new environmentally sound technologies: Evidence from the automobile sector. Nota di Lavoro, 33(1), 1-41.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2010). Is the Internet Really New After All? The Determinants of Telecommunications Diffusion in Historical Perspective. The Professional Geographer, 63(1), 55–72.
Perkins, R. (2010). The Internationalisation of Managerial Environmentalism: Globalisation, Diffusion and Territorialisation. Geography Compass, 4(8), 1069-1083.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2010). The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: Human rights, democracy and Western arms sales. Geoforum, 41(2), 247-256.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2010). Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 42(2), 347-365.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2009). Transnational linkages and the spillover of environment-efficiency into developing countries. Global Environmental Change, 19(3), 375-383.
Perkins, R., & Aalbers, M. (2009). Reviews: The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation, the Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Societies and the Role of Housing. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27(3), 568-570.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2008). Fostering Environment Efficiency through Transnational Linkages? Trajectories of CO2 and SO2, 1980–2000. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 40(12), 2970-2989.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2008). Extra-territorial interventions in conflict spaces: Explaining the geographies of post-Cold War peacekeeping. Political Geography, 27(8), 895-914.
Perkins, R. (2008). Incentivizing Climate Mitigation: Engaging Developing Countries. Harvard International Review, 30(2), 42-47.
Perkins, R. (2007). Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry. Studies in Comparative International Development, 42, 279–309.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2007). Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements: An Analysis of EU Directives. Global Environmental Politics, 7(3), 13–41.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2007). Do Membership Benefits Buy Regulatory Compliance? An Empirical Analysis of EU Directives 1978—99. European Union Politics, 8(2), 180-206.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2007). A brave new geography of the Internet age? : the determinants of telecommunications growth in historical perspective. Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.
Perkins, R. (2005). Review of Balkrishan Vaidya Geography of Transport Development in India 2003. Journal of Transport Geography, 13(4), 363–364.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2005). The International Diffusion of New Technologies: A Multitechnology Analysis of Latecomer Advantage and Global Economic Integration. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(4), 789–808.
Neumayer, E., & Perkins, R. (2005). Uneven geographies of organizational practice: explaining the cross-national transfer and diffusion of ISO 9000. Economic Geography, 81(3), 237-259.
Perkins, R. (2005). Electricity sector restructuring in India: an environmentally beneficial policy? Energy Policy, 33(4), 439-449.
Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2004). Europeanisation and the Uneven Convergence of Environmental Policy: Explaining the Geography of EMAS. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22(6), 881-897.
Neumayer, E., & Perkins, R. (2004). What Explains the Uneven Take-Up of ISO 14001 at the Global Level? A Panel-Data Analysis.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 36(5), 823-839.
Perkins, R. (2003). Environmental leapfrogging in developing countries: a critical assessment and reconstruction. National Resources Forum, 27(3), 177-188.







