Biography
Daniel Petrovics is a postdoctoral researcher studying the role of meta-organizations in scaling community enterprises for sustainability, as part of the SCENSUS project at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds MSc degrees in International Development and Urban Planning from the University of Amsterdam, and completed his PhD at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), focusing on the development of energy communities. He has worked as a research associate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on EU-funded projects such as NEWCOMERS (Horizon 2020) and RESILIO (Urban Innovation Action). Prior to academia, Daniel worked with the Global Reporting Initiative and consulted on sustainability policy and strategy for organizations including UNGC, UNEP, PwC, CDP, and REN21.
His current work focuses on the scaling of community enterprises, such as energy communities and shared mobility solutions as part of the SCENSUS project. He has a keen interest in studying how initiatives targeting climate mitigation and adaptation at the local urban scale organize at the meso-level and how they form meta-organizations and umbrella organizations. To study these initiatives he has worked with a broad range of literature including polycentric governance thinking and strategic niche management.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- petrovics@rsm.nl
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Work
- Daniel Petrovics, Dave Huitema, Mendel Giezen & Barbara Vis (2024) - Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives - Global Environmental Change, 84 - doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102780 - [link]
