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Stavros Afionis Dr Stavros Afionis

Research Fellow

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 31635
Email address: S.Afionis@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.118

Biography

Stavros is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School, working with Dr. Lindsay C. Stringer to review the current sustainability policy and guidelines on biofuels from the European Union, for the purposes of the following EU-funded project: Sustainable Liquid Biofuels from Biomass Biorefining (SUNLIBB).

Qualifications

  • PhD in International Relations & Politics (Keele University)
  • MA (Dist.) in Environmental Politics (keele University)
  • BA in Political Science (University of La Verne)

Research Interests

  • EU environmental politics
  • International climate change negotiations
  • Global biofuels policies

Publications

  • Afionis S; Bailey I (2012) Ever Closer Partnerships? European Union Relations with Rapidly Industrializing Countries on Climate Change, In: Bailey I; Compston H (Ed) Feeling the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Rapidly Industrializing Countries (Energy, Climate and the Environment), Palgrave Macmillan, pp.57-74.
  • Afionis S; Stringer LC (2012) European Union leadership in biofuels regulation: Europe as a normative power?, Journal of Cleaner Production, 32, pp.114-123.
  • Afionis S (2011) The European Union as a negotiator in the international climate change regime, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS-POLITICS LAW AND ECONOMICS, 11, pp.341-360. doi: 10.1007/s10784-010-9135-5
  • Afionis S; Chatzopoulos I (2010) Russia's role in UNFCCC negotiations since the exit of the United States in 2001, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS-POLITICS LAW AND ECONOMICS, 10, pp.45-63. doi: 10.1007/s10784-009-9106-x
  • Afionis S (2010) Brazil's Ethanol Fuel Program, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing.
  • Afionis S (2009) European Union Coherence in UNFCCC negotiations under the new Treaty of Lisbon (Reform Treaty), Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 9, pp.43-47.
  • Afionis S (2009) The Role of the G-8 in International Climate Change Negotiations, Inspire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies, 4, pp.1-12.
  • Afionis S (2008) From Montreal to Bali: The 2005-2007 EU Strategy for Reengaging the United States in UNFCCC Negotiations, Inspire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies, 3, pp.1-14.