prof.dr. (Lorenzo) L Pellegrini

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 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.

International Institute of Social Studies

Full professor | Academic staff unit
Email
pellegrini@iss.nl
Room
I3-19
Location
Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage

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Work

  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (8 June 2023) - Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

  • Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2022) - Global Environmental Politics (Journal)
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (2019) - Community-Based Environmental Monitoring in The Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon: Technologies as Instruments in the Struggle for Environmental Justice
  • Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print) (Journal)
  • Bram Buscher, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Wendy Harcourt (2012) - A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November)
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (2011) - On the left turn in Latin America and alternative development models
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (2011) - Political Economy of Extractive Industries Workshop

COVA Contro, NGO

Start date approval
May 2023
End date approval
May 2026
Place
ITALY

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Start date approval
May 2023
End date approval
May 2026
Place
QUITO, ECUADOR

General Information

Year
2023
Course Code
ISSGENERAL-23-24

Major ECD

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-ECD-23-24

1107 Development Economics

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-1107-23-24

3105 Research Paper Preparation

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-3105-23-24

5401 Research Paper

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-5401-23-24

Board of Examiners

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-BOE-23-24

4181 Devt Economics and Public Policy

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-4181-23-24

Major ECD

Year
2023
Course Code
ISS-ECD-22-23

News regarding prof.dr. (Lorenzo) L Pellegrini

New study maps oil reserves to remain unburned to meet 1.5°C climate threshold

ISS professors Lorenzo Pellegrini and Murat Arsel co-author article mapping oil reserves best left untouched to meet Paris Agreement goals.

"We want to help invent an economy in the Amazon that is not based on oil"

Stopping deforestation and standing up for local communities in the Amazon is the aim of the 'All Eyes on the Amazon' project.
Drones being inspected by inhabitants of the Amazon

The ears and eyes of the Amazon

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Associate Professor of Economics of Environment and Development at ISS, tells about his research in the Amazon forest.
All eyes on the amazon

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