Biography
Lorenzo Pellegrini, PhD is a Professor of Economics of Environment and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and an Adjunct Professor at the University San Francisco of Quito, Ecuador. He received his PhD from the VU University of Amsterdam.
His research interests include the socio-environmental impact of extractive industries, environmental justice, policies to keep fossil fuels in the ground, impact evaluation, institutions and corruption. Recent publications have appeared in Nature Communications, Global Environmental Politics, Geoforum, Political Geography, The Extractive Industries and Society, and Ecological Economics. Countries of research experience include Bhutan, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Italy, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Lorenzo has also led a number of participatory and action-oriented research projects in the Global South. He teaches courses on research methodology, development economics, development theory, sustainable development, and ecological economics.
The FULL CV is available HERE (updated June 2024)
International Institute of Social Studies
- pellegrini@iss.nl
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Work
- Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2024) - Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post-neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador - Geo: Geography and Environment, 11 (2) - doi: 10.1002/geo2.150 - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, Gorka Muñoa, Guillem Rius-Taberner, Carlos Mena & Martí Orta-Martínez (2024) - The atlas of unburnable oil for supply-side climate policies - Nature Communications, 15 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46340-6 - [link]
- Alessandra Arcuri, Kyla Tienhaara & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2024) - Investment law v. supply-side climate policies: insights from Rockhopper v. Italy and Lone Pine v. Canada - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 24 (1), 193-216 - doi: 10.1007/s10784-023-09622-w
- Fergus Simpson & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2023) - Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation andArmed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC’sKahuzi-Biega National Park - Development and Change, 54 (3), 601-640 - doi: 10.1111/dech.12764 - [link]
- M Arsel, BA Demena, A Floridi, GM Gomez, G Haile, A Kalfagianni, F Mukhtarov, SM Murshed, E Papyrakis, L Pellegrini, M Rieger, Z Shigute, GJA Uzin, R van der Hoeven, R Vos & N Wagner (2023) - International Collaboration in Times of Pandemics: An Urgent Need for Reforming our Global Financial System - Progress in Development Studies, 23 (3), 338-343 - doi: 10.1177/14649934231157238 - [link]
- Fergus Simpson & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2023) - Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary) - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini & Murat Arsel (2022) - The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground - Global Environmental Politics, 22 (4), 1-14 - doi: 10.1162/glep_a_00691 - [link]
- Martí Orta-Martínez, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, Carlos Mena & Gorka Muñoa (2022) - Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders - Global Environmental Politics, 22 (4), 15-27 - doi: 10.1162/glep_a_00688 - [link]
- Murat Arsel & L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini (2022) - Global Extractive Imperative: from local resistance to unburnable fuels - International Development Planning Review, 44 (1), 1-12 - doi: 10.3828/idpr.2021.25 - [link]
- Murat Arsel & L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini (2022) - Indigenous People, Extractive Imperative and Covid-19 in the Amazon - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82339-9_10
- Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2022) - Global Environmental Politics (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - Lorenzo Pellegrini (2019) - Community-Based Environmental Monitoring in The Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon: Technologies as Instruments in the Struggle for Environmental Justice (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print) (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Bram Buscher, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Wendy Harcourt (2012) - A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November) (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Professional - Lorenzo Pellegrini (2011) - On the left turn in Latin America and alternative development models (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Lorenzo Pellegrini (2011) - Political Economy of Extractive Industries Workshop (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Popular
COVA Contro, NGO
- Start date approval
- mei 2023
- End date approval
- mei 2026
- Place
- ITALY
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
- Start date approval
- mei 2023
- End date approval
- mei 2026
- Place
- QUITO, ECUADOR
4181 Devt Economics and Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-4181-24-25
Major ECD
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-ECD-24-25
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-24-25
General Information
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-24-25
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-24-25
1107 Development Economics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-1107-24-25
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-24-25
