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Edited Book or Journal Volume

Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke, eds. (2017) Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies)

Book Chapters

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2023) 'Hydropower, climate change and sustainable energy transitions.' In: Urban, Frauke and Nordensvärd, Johan, (eds.), Handbook on Climate Change and Technology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 82-101.

Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Villalobos, Alonso, Dang, Nguyen Anh and Markus, Lederer (2020) 'Costa Rica and Vietnam: Pioneers in green transformations.' In: Wurzel, Rüdiger K.W., Skou Andersen, Mikael and Tobin, Paul, (eds.), Climate Governance across the Globe. Pioneers, Leaders and Followers. Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Series)

Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017) 'Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building.' In: Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam building. Abingdon: Routledge. (Routledge explorations in development studies)

Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke (2017) 'China’s hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Implications for resource access and development.' In: Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-13. (Routledge explorations in development studies)

Majid Cooke, Fadzilah, Saat, Gusni, Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017) 'Chinese dam building, renewable energy and socioecological change in East Malaysia.' In: Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam building. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 145-162. (Routledge explorations in development studies)

Tan-Mullins, May, Mang, Grace and Urban, Frauke (2017) 'The political ecology of rising China: Case study of Chinese hydropower dams in Africa and Asia.' In: Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke, (eds.), Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam building. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 80-99. (Routledge explorations in development studies)

Antonelli, Marta, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Turvani, Margherita (2015) 'La corsa globale alla terra. Il ruolo dell’Europa e le sfide per la sicurezza idrica, alimentare ed energetica.' In: Bozzini, Emanuela, (ed.), Nutrire il pianeta? Per un’alimentazione giusta, sostenibile, conviviale. Rome: Bruno Mondadori. (Studi economici e sociali Carocci ; v 96)

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2011) 'The socio-economic and biophysical dimensions of urbanisation strategies in China: land use changes, human time and energy intensity.' In: Ramos-Martín, Jesús, Giampietro, Mario, Ulgiati, Sergio and Bukkens, Sandra G.F., (eds.), Can we break the addiction to fossil energy? : proceedings of the 7th Biennial International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies, Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 October 2010. Bellaterra, Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology.

Journal Article

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Cantoni, Roberto, Lonn, Pichdara, Por, Narith, Kry, Solany, Morn, Chimmor and Oudom, Ham (2025) ''Leave no one behind': A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia.' World Development, 185 (106793).

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Linda, Wallbott, Markus, Lederer and Ahn, Dang (2021) 'Low-carbon energy, sustainable development and justice: towards a just energy transition for the society and the environment.' Sustainable Development, 29 (6). pp. 1049-1061.

Rosa, Lorenzo, Rulli, Maria Cristina, Ali, Saleem, Chiarelli, Davide Danilo, Dell'Angelo, Jampel, Mueller, Nathaniel D., Scheidel, Arnim, Siciliano, Giuseppina and D'Odorico, Paolo (2021) 'Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition.' Nature Communications, 12 (2319).

Lederer, Markus, Wallbott, Linda, Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Dang Nguyen, Anh (2020) 'Implementing climate change top-down: climate, energy and industrial politics in Vietnam.' Sociology, 8 (2). pp. 12-29.

Lederer, Markus, Höhne, Chris, Navarro, Guillermo, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Alonso, Villalobos (2020) 'REDD+ and the State: New Forest Politics in Costa Rica, Vietnam and Indonesia.' Sociology, 8 (2). pp. 29-49.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Del Bene, Daniela, Scheidel, Arnim, Liu, Juan and Urban, Frauke (2019) 'Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South.' Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 37. pp. 20-27.

Wallbott, Linda, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Lederer, Markus (2019) 'Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?' Ecology and Society, 24 (1). p. 24.

Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Wallbott, Linda, Lederer, Markus and Dang Nguyen, Anh (2018) 'Green transformations in Vietnam's energy sector.' Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 5 (3). pp. 558-582.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Urban, Frauke, Tan-Mullins, May and Mohan, Giles (2018) 'Large dams, energy justice and the divergence between international, national and local developmental needs and priorities in the global South.' Energy Research and Social Science, 41. pp. 199-209.

Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Nordensvard, Johan (2018) 'China’s Dam Builders: their role in transboundary river management in Southeast Asia.' International Journal of Water Resources Development, 34 (5). pp. 747-770.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Rulli, Maria Cristina and D'Odorico, Paolo (2017) 'European large-scale farmland investments and the land-water-energy-food nexus.' Advances in Water Resources, 110. pp. 579-590.

Bellarby, Jessica, Surridge, Ben, Haygarth, Philip, Liu, Kun, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Smith, Laurence, Rahn, Clive and Meng, Fanqiao (2017) 'The stocks and flows of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium across a 30-year time series for agriculture in Huantai county, China.' Science of the Total Environment, 619-20. pp. 606-620.

Cooke, Fadzilah Majid, Nordensvard, Johan, Saat, Bin Gusni, Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017) 'The Limits of Social Protection: The Case of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous Peoples' Land.' Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 4 (3). pp. 437-450.

Olorunfemi, Felix, May, Tan-Mullins, Giles, Mohan, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke (2017) 'Hope, Politics and Risk: The Case of Chinese Dam in Nigeria.' Energy and Environment Research, 7 (2). pp. 1-13.

Yankson, Paul, Asiedu, Alex, Owusu, Kwadwo, Urban, Frauke and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2017) 'The Livelihood Challenges of Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana and the Role of Chinese Dam-Builders.' Development Policy Review, 36 (S1). 0476-0494.

Bellarby, Jessica, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Smith, Laurence, Xin, Lai, Zhou, Jianbin, Liu, Kun, Jie, Li, Meng, Fanqiao, Inman, Alex, Rahn, Clive, Surridge, Ben and Haygarth, Philip (2017) 'Strategies for sustainable nutrient management: Insights from a mixed natural and social science analysis of Chinese crop production systems.' Environmental Development, 21. pp. 52-65.

Siciliano, Giuseppina and Urban, Frauke (2017) 'Equity-based Natural Resource Allocation for Infrastructure Development: Evidence From Large Hydropower Dams in Africa and Asia.' Ecological Economics, 134. pp. 130-139.

Smith, Laurence, Inman, Alex, Xin, Lai, Haifang, Zhang, Meng, Fanqiao, Zhou, Jianbin, Burke, Sean, Rahn, Clive, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Haygarth, Philip, Bellarby, Jessica and Surridge, Ben (2016) 'Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer.' Land Use Policy, 61. pp. 208-219.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Urban, Frauke, Tan-Mullins, May, Lonn, Pich Dara and Kim, Sour (2016) 'The Political Ecology of Chinese Large Dams in Cambodia: Implications, Challenges and Lessons Learnt from the Kamchay Dam.' Water, 8 (45). pp. 1-18.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Urban, Frauke, Sour, Kim and Pich, Dara Lonn (2015) 'Hydropower, social priorities and the rural–urban development divide: The case of large dams in Cambodia.' Energy Policy, 86. pp. 273-285.

Smith, Laurence and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2015) 'A comprehensive review of constraints to improved management of fertilizers in China and mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture.' Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 209. pp. 15-25.

Urban, Frauke, Nordensvard, Johan, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Li, Binqin (2015) 'Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The Bui Dam in Ghana and the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia.' Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 2 (3). pp. 573-589.

Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Sour, Kim, Lonn, Pich Dara, Tan-Mullins, May and Mang, Grace (2015) 'South–South Technology Transfer of Low-Carbon Innovation: Large Chinese Hydropower Dams in Cambodia.' Sustainable Development, 23 (7-8). pp. 232-244.

Antonelli, Marta, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Turrvani, Margherita Emma and Rulli, Maria Cristina (2015) 'Global investments in agricultural land and the role of the EU: Drivers, scope and potential impacts.' Land Use Policy, 47. pp. 98-111.

Ravera, Federica, David, Tarrasón and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2014) 'Rural change and multidimensional analysis of farm’s vulnerability: a case study in a protected area of semi-arid northern Nicaragua.' Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16. pp. 873-901.

Stefania, Munaretto, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Margherita E., Turvani (2014) 'Integrating adaptive governance and participatory multicriteria methods: a framework for climate adaptation governance.' Ecology and Society, 19 (2).

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2013) 'Rural–Urban Migration and Domestic Land Grabbing in China.' Population, Space and Place, 20 (4). pp. 333-351.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Crociata, Alessandro and Turvani, Margherita (2012) 'A Multi-level Integrated Analysis of Socio-Economic Systems Metabolism: an Application to the Italian Regional Level.' Environmental Policy and Governance, 22 (5). pp. 350-368.

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2012) 'Urbanization strategies, rural development and land use changes in China: A multiple-level integrated assessment.' Land Use Policy, 29 (1). pp. 165-178.

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2009) 'Social multicriteria evaluation of farming practices in the presence of soil degradation. A case study in Southern Tuscany, Italy.' Environment, Development and Sustainability, 11 (6). pp. 1107-1133.

Siciliano, Giuseppina, Märker, Michael, Angeli, Luca, Bottai, Lorenzo, Costantini, Roberto, Ferrari, Raffaella and Innocentic, Lucia (2008) 'Assessment of land degradation susceptibility by scenario analysis: a case study in Southern Tuscany, Italy.' Geomorphology, 93 (1-2). pp. 120-129.

Monographs and Working Papers

Smith, Laurence, Inman, Alex, Xin, Lai, Zhang, Haifang, Wang, Zhiwen, Meng, Fanqiao, Zhou, Jianbin, Burke, Sean, Rahn, Clive, Siciliano, Giuseppina and Surridge, Ben (2016) Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer. SAIN.

Smith, Laurence, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Inman, Alex, Rahn, Clive, Bellarby, Jessica, Surridge, Ben, Haygarth, Philip, Xin, Lai, Zhang, Guilong, Ji, L., Zhou, Jianbin, Meng, Fanqiao and Burke, Sean (2015) Delivering improved nutrient stewardship in China: the knowledge, attitudes and practices of farmers and advisers. London: UK-China Sustainable Agricultural Innovation Network (SAIN).

Bellarby, Jessica, Surridge, Ben, Haygarth, Philip, Xin, Lai, Zhang, Guilong, Xialong, S, Zhou, Jianbin, Meng, Fanqiao, Shen, Jianbo, Rahn, Clive, Burke, Sean, Smith, Laurence and Siciliano, Giuseppina (2015) Inefficiency and Environmental Risks associated with Nutrient Use in Agriculture within China and the UK. London: UK-China Sustainable Agricultural Innovation Network (SAIN).

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2021) COP26: A “just” decision-making process is needed for a “just” transition. SOAS Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2021) Community-led energy solutions as the future of just and clean energy transitions. SOAS Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Urban, Frauke, Siciliano, Giuseppina, Wallbott, Linda, Lederer, Markus and Anh, Nguyen Dang (2018) It's not easy going green: Can Vietnam achieve its vision of a ‘green transformation’? Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Policy Forum [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Siciliano, Giuseppina (2018) Large-Scale Farmland Investments And The Land-Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Science Trends [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]