Neal is an inter-disciplinary researcher interested in a diverse range of social, economic and environmental topics including:
Justice, equity and rights in relation to natural resources and indigenous peoples
Institutions and mechanisms of nature conservation (including Payments for Ecosystem Services and Community-Based Natural Resources Management).
Policy evaluation, including the use and misuse of cost-benefit analysis.
Growth, technology and the environment
Economic and institutional aspects of natural resource management in Madagascar
'Worthless' forest carbon offsets risk exacerbating climate change
Aug 25, 2023 08:00 am UTC| Nature
In early 2023, the Guardian published an article suggesting that more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. These credits are essentially a promise to protect forests and can be bought as a way to offset...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects