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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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​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.

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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.

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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.

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Perkins, R., Neumayer, R. (2013). Geographies of educational mobilities: exploring the uneven flows of international students. The Geographical Journal, 180(3), 246-259.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2012). Transnational economic and strategic interdependencies in the geography of extra territorial patent filings. London School of Economics.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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​Perkins, R. (2010). The Internationalisation of Managerial Environmentalism: Globalisation, Diffusion and Territorialisation. Geography Compass, 4(8), 1069-1083.

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Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2010). The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: Human rights, democracy and Western arms sales. Geoforum, 41(2), 247-256.

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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.

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Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2009). Transnational linkages and the spillover of environment-efficiency into developing countries. Global Environmental Change, 19(3), 375-383.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Perkins, R. (2008). Incentivizing Climate Mitigation: Engaging Developing Countries. Harvard International Review, 30(2), 42-47.

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Perkins, R. (2007). Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry. Studies in Comparative International Development, 42, 279–309.

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Perkins, R., & Neumayer, E. (2007). Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements: An Analysis of EU Directives. Global Environmental Politics, 7(3), 13–41.

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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.

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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.

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Perkins, R. (2005). Review of Balkrishan Vaidya Geography of Transport Development in India 2003. Journal of Transport Geography, 13(4), 363–364.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Perkins, R. (2003). Environmental leapfrogging in developing countries: a critical assessment and reconstruction. National Resources Forum, 27(3), 177-188.

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