Monica Di Gregorio

Lecturer: Environmental Policy & Governance

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 31592
Email address: m.digregorio@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.110

Biography

I am an environmental social scientist and a Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Governance. My current research examines contentious environmental politics and development and is centered on environmental movements and policy networks. I also work on climate change policy in developing countries with a focus on national level REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) policy strategies. I have also worked on natural resources governance and much of my work relates in one way or another to forest resources.

Prior to joining SRI in 2011, I was a fellow in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). My work at the LSE focused on activism around forest tenure issues in Indonesia. Before joining the LSE, I worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on institutions and natural resource management with a particular focus on property rights and collective action issues. I have a background in International Development (LSE) and Development Economics (MSc, SOAS) and a regional interest in Southeast Asia.

Research Interests

• Environmental movements and development
• Environmental policy networks
• Natural resource governance
• Climate change and forests

Publications

• Di Gregorio M (2012) Networking in environmental movement organisation coalitions: interest, values or discourse?, ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 21, pp.1-25. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2011.643366
• Di Gregorio M; Hagedorn K; Kirk M; Korf B; McCarthy N; Meinzen-Dick R; Swallow B; Mwangi E; Markelova H (2012) Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction, In: Mwangi E; Markelova H; Meinzen-Dick R (Ed) Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction, University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Eyzaguirre P; Di Gregorio M; Meinzen-Dick R (2007) Introduction to the special issue on "property rights, collective action, and local conservation of genetic resources", WORLD DEVELOPMENT, 35, pp.1481-1488. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.016
• McCarthy N; Di Gregorio M (2007) Climate variability and flexibility in resource access: the case of pastoral mobility in Northern Kenya, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, 12, pp.403-421. doi: 10.1017/S1355770X07003609
• Meinzen-Dick RS; Di Gregorio M; McCarthy N (2004) Methods for studying collective action in rural development, Agricultural Systems, 82, pp.197-214.
• Knox A; Meinzen-Dick RS; Di Gregorio M (2001) Collective action, property rights, and devolution of natural resource management: Exchange of knowledge and implications for policy, DSE/ZEL.