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Publications

Journal Articles

Knowledge Asymmetries and Climate Finance: An Inquiry into Environmental Market Failures and Political Legitimacy

Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 2025

In archetypal credit and capital markets, informational gaps can lead to the withdrawal of high-impact participants and incentivise excessive risk-taking by parties unaware of the risks they face. Within climate-related markets there is a similar trend: investors systematically underestimate tail risks associated with carbon-intensive assets—including risks from climate-caused natural events, which threaten those assets—while firms strategically under-disclose their exposure to these physical and transition risks.

Recommended citation: Rice, James. (2025). "Knowledge Asymmetries and Climate Finance: An Inquiry into Environmental Market Failures and Political Legitimacy." Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 2(2), 117-135.
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The Prospect of Just Emissions as an International Norm of Environmental Governance

Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 2024

So-called luxury emissions of Global North countries need to be curtailed in line with, and also more rapidly than, the increase in emissions from Global South nations. I argue there is a growing need for radical social austerity and climate conservatism on the part of large emitters.

Recommended citation: Rice, James. (2024). "The Prospect of Just Emissions as an International Norm of Environmental Governance." Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 1(2), 194-203.
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Working Papers

Climate Change and Complexity in Classical Liberal Theories of Development

In this essay, I develop a complexity-based theory of social interaction within legal constraints, highlighting how rule-of-law institutions enable cooperation even in the face of intricate political and economic pressures based on inequities in mitigating and preparing for climate change..

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2025). "Climate Change and Complexity in Classical Liberal Theories of Development." Working Paper.

Interdisciplinarity in International Sustainable Business

This essay proposes that international business - characterized most prominently by the multinational corporation (MNC) - is defined by the types of social problems it wishes to solve. It is also defined by the manner, strategy, or approach that it uses to define the problem landscape and technological or product-related solution space.

Recommended citation: James Rice and Charles Mensah. (2025). "Interdisciplinarity in International Sustainable Business." Working paper with Charles Mensah.

The Effect of Climate Misinformation on Climate Policy Uncertainty

If the impacts of online fake news were well understood, then the spread of work covering misinformation would be more grounded in concrete solutions, including ones implementable by the political leaders who create regulations and the technocrats who moderate online public fora.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2025). "The Effect of Climate Misinformation on Climate Policy Uncertainty." This is the first paper of my PhD at the University of Essex.

The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality

This is my LSE dissertation. It is currently a conference paper, as I prepare for publication.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality." Working Paper.

An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene: Environmental Justice and Religion

This essay examines the relationship between critical theological theories within avant-garde scholarship on religion as a social phenomenon and the equally, if not more, pressing revelations of climate scientists regarding the ecological crisis which is partly the result of a society whose faith has been misplaced in a form of unsustainable technology which threatens to destroy us.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene: Environmental Justice and Religion." Science & Religion Forum 2024 Conference.

Climate Change Misinformation and Integrity in Environmental Communication

While our beliefs about crucial political issues such as climate change are shaped by a variety of psychological and socioeconomic influences, this essay argues that one source of those beliefs comes from the responsibility that climate scientists have, as domain experts on the science and policy of climate change, to protect the public from misinformation.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "Climate Change Misinformation and Integrity in Environmental Communication." Working Paper.