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).
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Research Pursuit “Food-Energy-Water Interdependencies of the Global Agrarian Transition”, University of Maryland, US (2018 – present);
Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South
Siciliano, Giuseppina, Del Bene, Daniela, Scheidel, Arnim, Liu, Juan and Urban, Frauke, 2019, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (37), pp 20-27
Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Wallbott, Linda, Lederer, Markus and Dang Nguyen, Anh, 2018, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (5), 3, pp 558-582
The Limits of Social Protection: The Case of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous Peoples' Land
Cooke, Fadzilah Majid, Nordensvard, Johan, Saat, Bin Gusni, Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina, 2017, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (4), 3, pp 437-450
China’s hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Implications for resource access and development
Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke (2017). In: Siciliano, Giuseppina, (eds.) and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building. Abingdon: Routledge, pp 1-13
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building
Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017). In: Siciliano, Giuseppina, (eds.) and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam building. Abingdon: Routledge
Chinese dam building, renewable energy and socioecological change in East Malaysia
Majid Cooke, Fadzilah, Saat, Gusni, Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017). In: Siciliano, Giuseppina, (eds.) and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam building. Abingdon: Routledge, pp 145-162
The socio-economic and biophysical dimensions of urbanisation strategies in China: land use changes, human time and energy intensity
Siciliano, Giuseppina (2011). In: Ramos-Martín, Jesús, (eds.), Giampietro, Mario, (eds.), Ulgiati, Sergio, (eds.) and Bukkens, Sandra G.F., (eds.), Can we break the addiction to fossil energy? : proceedings of the 7th Biennial International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies, Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 October 2010. Bellaterra, Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology