Dr Giuseppina Siciliano

Giuseppina is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development.

She works on sustainability and green transformations and just transitions, with a focus on land use changes, land grabbing, low-carbon development and climate change. She has conducted research in different international contexts in Asia, Africa and Latin America on the analysis of socio-environmental implications of Chinese-backed hydropower dams in Southeast Asia and West Africa (ESRC-funded project); on the policy and practice for sustainable management of water resources in UK and China (DEFRA-funded project); and on green transformations in the energy and land use sectors in the global South (Southeast Asia and Latin America) (Wellcome Trust-funded project). 

She has also collaborated in two team-based international research pursuit on the “Socio-environmental impacts of large hydropower dams across the Global South” and “Food-Energy-Water Interdependencies of the Global Agrarian Transition” of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Centre (SESYNC- University of Maryland, US). 

She has authored numerous research articles and co-edited the book Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building (Routledge, 2017).

At SOAS Giuseppina teaches on environment and development, water and land management for sustainable development, low-carbon development and energy transitions. She welcomes PhD applications in the areas of land use changes, land grabbing, land-water-energy nexus, low-carbon development and climate change, hydropower, just energy transitions.

• Political ecology
• Sustainability and green transformations
• Environmental justice, Human-environment
• Low-carbon development
• Hydropower
• Just energy transitions
• Climate change
• Land grabbing
• Land-water-energy nexus

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