Department of Development Studies & Centre for Development, Environment and Policy

Dr Giuseppina Siciliano

Key information

Roles
Centre for Development, Environment and Policy Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development
Qualifications
BSc (University of Siena), MSc (Autonomous University of Barcelona), PhD (Cà Foscari University of Venice)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Email address
gs45@soas.ac.uk
Support hours
By email appointment

Biography

Giuseppina is a Lecturer in Sustainable Development in the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, Department of Development Studies. She works on the land-water-energy-food nexus, with a particular focus on land use changes, energy transitions and development. Her research interests include political ecology, ecological economics, participatory decision-making, sustainability and societal transformations, environmental justice, human-environment interaction and development. Giuseppina has conducted research in different international contexts in Asia, Africa and Latin America on the analysis of the socio-environmental implications of Chinese-backed hydropower dams in Asia and Africa; on the policy and practice for sustainable nutrient management and water resources protection in UK and Chinese agro-ecosystems and on green transformations in the energy and land use sectors in the global South. She previously worked as a Research Fellow on human-environment interaction and environmental change in various academic and research institutions, the IUAV University in Venice (2010-2012), ECOSUR - Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Mexico (2005-2006), the National Research Council of Italy (2003-2005). She was also guest lecturer in Political Economy of the Environment at University of Siena (2011-2012) and in Social-Environmental Planning and Participatory Methods at IUAV University in Venice, (2012-2013). Giuseppina has authored numerous research articles (Google Scholar) and co-edited the book Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building (2017, Routledge).

Research interests

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