Laurence Delina
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Laurence Delina
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Areas of Expertise
Energy transition; Climate mobilization; International development; Energy studies; Energy policy
Short Bio
Laurence Delina is researching on the rapid mitigation of anthropogenic global climate change, accelerating sustainable and just energy transitions, and nonviolent climate mobilizations especially in emerging economies and the Majority World. He is the author of Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation (2016), Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transitions (2017), Climate Actions (2018), and Emancipatory Climate Actions (2019). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and a visiting research fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. His research has received support from the Sumimoto Foundation, The World Academy of Sciences, The United States Institute of Peace, International Studies Association, the Philippines Department of Science and Technology, The Robert Ho Family Foundation, and the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict. He was a Returning Scientist at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2019 and at the University of Science and Technology in Southern Philippines in 2020 and 2021, a Rachel Carson Fellow in 2017, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in 2013 and 2016.
Selected Papers and Publications
- Delina, L. (2021). Promises and pitfalls of China-Southeast Asia energy connectivity, Energy Strategy Reviews 33:100574.
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Delina, L. (2021). Topographies of coal mining dissent: Power, politics and protests in southern Philippines, World Development, 137:105194.
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Delina, L. (2020). Potentials and critiques of building a Southeast Asian interdisciplinary knowledge community on critical geoengineering studies, Climatic Change, 163(2): 973-987.
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Delina, L. (2020). Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape. Energy Research & Social Science 65:101463.
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Delina, L. (2020). Climate mobilizations and democracy: The promise of community energy transitions in a deliberative system. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 22:30-42.
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Delina, L. and B.K. Sovacool. (2018). Of temporality and plurality: An epistemic and governance agenda for accelerating just transitions for energy access and sustainable development. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 34:1-6.
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Delina, L. and A. Janetos. (2018). Cosmopolitan, dynamic and contested energy futures: Navigating the pluralities and polarities of the energy systems of tomorrow. Energy Research and Social Science 35:1-10.
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Delina, L. (2018). Whose and what futures? Navigating the contested coproduction of Thailand’s energy sociotechnical imaginaries. Energy Research and Social Science 35:48-56.
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Delina, L. (2017). Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries: The Challenges of Climate Change and Sustainable Development. New York: Routledge.
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Delina, L. (2018). Whose and what futures? Navigating the contested coproduction of Thailand’s energy sociotechnical imaginaries. Energy Research and Social Science 35:48-56.
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Delina, L. (2016). Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: War Mobilisation as Model for Action? New York: Routledge.
