Giuseppina is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development whose work focuses on sustainability, green transformations, and just transitions. Her research explores critical issues such as land use change, land grabbing, low-carbon development, and climate change.
She has conducted extensive research across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, examining the socio-environmental impacts of development initiatives. Notably, her work includes: the socio-environmental implications of Chinese-backed hydropower dams in Southeast Asia and West Africa (ESRC-funded project); sustainable water resource management in the UK and China ( DEFRA-funded project); green transformations in energy and land use sectors across the global South, particularly in Southeast Asia and Latin America (Wellcome Trust-funded project).
Giuseppina has also contributed to two major collaborative research initiatives hosted by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland, US: The Socio-environmental Impacts of Large Hydropower Dams across the Global South, and Food-Energy-Water Interdependencies of the Global Agrarian Transition.
She has authored numerous academic 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, sustainable water and land management, low-carbon development, and energy transitions. She welcomes PhD applications in areas such as land use change, land and water grabbing, the land-water-energy nexus, low-carbon development and climate change, hydropower, and just energy transitions.
Research Interests
Political ecology
Environment and development
Sustainability and green transformations
Environmental justice
Low-carbon development
Hydropower
Just energy transitions
Climate change
Land grabbing
Land-water-energy nexus
Teaching and Learning
At SOAS Giuseppina teaches on environment and development, water and land management for sustainable development, low-carbon development and energy transitions.
PhD Supervision Availability
Yes
PhD Topics
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.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
