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Monica Di Gregorio

Monica Di Gregorio

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Political Science

D-Index
25
Citations
2776
World Ranking
1620
National Ranking
268

Overview

Monica Di Gregorio is a researcher affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on environmental and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change, as well as political science and international relations. Their research addresses complex issues related to climate change governance, policy transfer, and sustainability.

The main fields of study in which they publish include Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Subfields frequently explored in their research are Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, and Development.

Some of the main topics covered in their work are:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • International Development and Aid
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Social Capital and Networks

Monica Di Gregorio's publication record features papers in notable academic venues, including:

  • Global Environmental Change
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • AMBIO
  • Climate Policy
  • Policy Sciences

The following recent publications illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Building authority and legitimacy in transnational climate change governance: Evidence from the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity, 2021, AMBIO
  • Climate change policy networks: connecting adaptation and mitigation in multiplex networks in Peru, 2020, Climate Policy
  • Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation, 2021, Policy Sciences
  • Indicators to Evaluate the Institutional Effectiveness of National Climate Financing Mechanisms, 2020, Forest and Society

The researcher collaborates frequently with other academics, including Maria Brockhaus, Phạm T.T., Josiane Gakou-Kakeu, Jouni Paavola, and Dénis Sonwa. These collaborations point to an interdisciplinary approach involving diverse perspectives on climate change and policy innovation.

Best Publications

  • Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

    Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Leandra Fatorelli;Jouni Paavola;Bruno Locatelli;Bruno Locatelli

  • Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages

    Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat;Jouni Paavola;Intan Maya Sari

  • COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Monica di Gregorio

  • Integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture and forestry: opportunities and trade-offs

    Bruno Locatelli;Charlotte Pavageau;Emilia Pramova;Monica Di Gregorio

  • Equity and REDD+ in the Media: a Comparative Analysis of Policy Discourses

    Monica Di Gregorio;Maria Brockhaus;Tim Cronin;Efrian Muharrom

  • Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

    Monica di Gregorio;Konrad Hagedorn;Michael Kirk;Benedikt Korf

  • Enabling factors for establishing REDD+ in a context of weak governance

    K. Korhonen-Kurki;J. Sehring;M. Brockhaus;M. Di Gregorio

  • REDD+ policy networks: exploring actors and power structures in an emerging policy domain

    Maria Brockhaus;Monica Di Gregorio;Rachel Carmenta

  • REDD+, transformational change and the promise of performance-based payments: a qualitative comparative analysis

    Maria Brockhaus;Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki;Jenniver Sehring;Monica Di Gregorio

  • Information networks and power: confronting the "wicked problem" of REDD+ in Indonesia

    Moira Moeliono;Caleb Gallemore;Levania Santoso;Maria Brockhaus

  • National REDD+ policy networks: from cooperation to conflict

    Maria Brockhaus;Monica Di Gregorio

  • Networking in environmental movement organisation coalitions: interest, values or discourse?

    Monica Di Gregorio

  • Transaction costs, power, and multi-level forest governance in Indonesia

    Caleb Gallemore;Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Moira Moeliono;Maria Brockhaus

  • The REDD+ policy arena in Vietnam: participation of policy actors

    Thuy T. Pham;Monica Di Gregorio;Rachel Carmenta;Maria Brockhaus;Maria Brockhaus

  • The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity

    Maria Brockhaus;Maria Brockhaus;Monica Di Gregorio;Houria Djoudi;Moira Moeliono

  • COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: OVERVIEW

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Monica di Gregorio

  • Advocacy coalitions, REDD+, and forest governance in Papua New Guinea: how likely is transformational change?

    Andrea Babon;Dan McIntyre;Gae Y. Gowae;Caleb Tyrell Gallemore

  • Multistakeholder environmental governance in action: REDD+ discourse coalitions in Tanzania

    Salla Rantala;Monica Di Gregorio

  • Deadlock or Transformational Change?: Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries

    Monica Di Gregorio;Maria Brockhaus;Tim Cronin;Efrian Muharrom

  • What drives policy change for REDD+?: A qualitative comparative analysis of the interplay between institutional and policy arena factors

    Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki;Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki;Maria Brockhaus;Jenniver Sehring;Jenniver Sehring;Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio

  • Climate variability and flexibility in resource access: the case of pastoral mobility in Northern Kenya

    Nancy Mccarthy;Monica Di Gregorio

  • How institutions and beliefs affect environmental discourse: Evidence from an eight-country survey on REDD+

    Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Caleb Tyrell Gallemore;Maria Brockhaus;Maria Brockhaus;Leandra Fatorelli

  • Decentralization, Pro-Poor Land Policies, and Democratic Governance

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Monica di Gregorio;Stephan Dohrn

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Brockhaus
Maria Brockhaus University of Helsinki
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
Jouni Paavola
Jouni Paavola University of Leeds
Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder University of East Anglia
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Sven Wunder
Sven Wunder European Forest Institute
Brent Swallow
Brent Swallow University of Alberta
Benedikt Korf
Benedikt Korf University of Zurich

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