Lorenzo Pellegrini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1361144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Pellegrini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pellegrini |
| SIGNATURE | PELLEGRINI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0622-2950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beauty is in the brain of the beholder: Psychological and physiological effects of expertise on the perception of classicist and modernist buildings
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon
Over the past two decades, Latin American States have adopted laws and created institutions to oversee the activities of transnational extractive companies. Despite these efforts, scholars argue that companies routinely breach environmental regulations and face little consequences. This study employs a case study of oil blocks 1AB/192 and 8 to examine how environmental enforcement operates in practice. Drawing on data from the Peruvian Environmen…
Mind the gap, mind corruption: Cross-country differences between multidimensional and monetary poverty
Countries with similar rates of monetary poverty differ with respect to their multidimensional poverty rates. A large positive multidimensional/monetary poverty gap suggests that many non-monetary poor still fail to meet some of their most basic needs. We make use of panel data to examine these cross-country differences between monetary and multidimensional poverty and explicitly link them to underlying country characteristics. Our analysis build…
Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post‐neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador
With the election of President Rafael Correa in the 2006 elections, Ecuadorian environmentalists became influential policymaking actors. Agenda‐setting successes were followed by their decisive contribution to determining legislative content and its passing. However, the moment of alliance between environmentalists and Correa proved to be temporary. Environmentalists returned to a more adversarial posture in relation to the state and its approach…
Investment law v. supply-side climate policies: Insights from Rockhopper v. Italy and Lone Pine v. Canada
New fossil fuel developments are inconsistent with keeping global warming below 1.5 °C, and while most climate policies focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels, an emerging transversal consensus promotes efforts to simultaneously reduce supply. In this article, we discuss the obstacles to effective supply-side climate policies posed by international investment treaties that protect corporations against state interventions through investor-state…
Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC
International Collaboration in Times of Pandemics: An Urgent Need for Reforming our Global Financial System
Better, swifter and more responsive international coordination is needed within our global financial system for the containment of the pandemic and its effects. This requires better international tax coordination with a higher global minimum corporate tax, comprehensive coverage of sectors and firms, inclusion of all current tax havens and more generous redistribution of excess profits to developing nations based on user location. There also need…
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Ongoing debates in conservation studies stress the dire consequences of 'fortress' and 'militarized' conservation at violent frontiers. Presenting evidence from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article shows how the park has become a focal point for armed insurgent groups in the region. Although fortress conservation has contributed to one major incident of violent resistance in recent years,…
Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders
To limit the increase in global mean temperature to 1.5°C, CO2 emissions should be capped at 440 gigatons. To achieve this, about 89 percent, 59 percent, and 58 percent of existing coal and conventional gas and oil reserves, respectively, need to remain unburned. This implies an economic cost for fossil fuel rights owners, and any successful climate policy will rely on resolving the distributional challenge of how to allocate the right to use the…
The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground
As the urgency of responding to climate change and the insufficiency of current demand-side policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions become clearer, supply-side initiatives are beginning to gain prominence and acceptance globally. Policies such as moratoria and compensation for leaving fossil fuels unextracted in exchange for financial compensation of rights owners are likely to be effective and complementary to existing policies. A number o…
Global extractive imperative: From local resistance to unburnable fuels
Since the early 2000s, there has been an ‘extractive imperative’ in Latin America that made intensified extraction the policy solution to all socioeconomic challenges. More recently, a similar consensus has emerged in a diversity of political, economic and geographical contexts - such as Turkey, India and the United States - that makes it possible to speak of a ‘global extractive imperative’. The imperative is especially evident in settings also …
Conservation, extraction and social contracts at a violent frontier: Evidence from eastern DRC's Itombwe Nature Reserve
Conservation efforts must develop strategies to perform at violent frontiers where environmental values, mineral extraction and conflict intersect. Using war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Itombwe Nature Reserve as an illustrative example, this article explores how community conservation is implemented and received at a violent frontier. Taking inspiration from an emerging body of literature which portrays conservation as a form of ‘…
The impact of the Fairmined Certification on the well-being of small-scale miners: Evidence from Colombia and Peru
In this study, we estimate the impact of the Fairmined certification scheme on the well-being of participating artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Colombia and Peru. First, we collected information through phone surveys of certified and non-certified miners. Second, we constructed a well-being index that covers multiple dimensions of well-being, including material and subjective measures. Third, through linear regression techniques and prope…
A regional resource curse? A synthetic-control approach to oil extraction in Basilicata, Italy
Basilicata is a region of Southern Italy where the expansion of oil operations in the 1990s was promoted as an opportunity to foster economic development. Flash-forward to 2020, Basilicata is one of the poorest regions in Italy despite the exploitation of some of the largest onshore hydrocarbon reserves within the European Union. The coincidence of high poverty rates with abundant natural resources suggests that the region is experiencing a ‘reso…
International Investment Agreements, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Texaco/Chevron Case From the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Texaco/Chevron lawsuit, which started in November 1993 and is still being litigated in 2020, is a prominent example of the process of judicialization of environmental conflict. The Ecuadorian plaintiffs claim that the oil company's operations generated ruinous impacts on the environment and on the development prospects and health of nearby individuals and communities. The tortuous and lengthy judiciary process was further hindered by an arbit…
Community-Based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This paper reports on an ongoing initiative that seeks to enhance the detection, monitoring, and reporting capabilities of local communities in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon through the introduction of hardware and digital tools, as a strategy to strengthen their ability to produce socio-environmental evidence. A Community Based Monitoring (CBM) system has been created to link social organizations, fighting for environmental justice, and academi…
Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia ‐ by Young, K. A
Oil and Conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon: An Exploration of Motives and Objectives
This exploration piece challenges the dominant reading of oil-related social conflicts through an environmental prism. Through a methodological intervention that classifies conflicts as ‘brown’ (concerning primarily the distribution and investment of economic rents) or ‘green’ (demanding ecological remediation, improved extraction practices, or cessation of oil extraction altogether), it analyses a database of oil related conflicts in the Norther…
Imaginaries of development through extraction: The ‘History of Bolivian Petroleum’ and the present view of the future
This article offers a reading of the ideas expressed in Walter Soln Romero Gonzales' mural, the 'History of Bolivian Petroleum' from 1956, and juxtaposes these ideas to the current public discourse that emerges from speeches of high officials and from policy documents of President Evo Morales' government. The objective is to investigate the understanding of the role natural resources vis--vis development in Bolivia at these two points in time and…
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease"? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon
Orta-Martínez, M., L. Pellegrini, and M. Arsel. 2018. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease”? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon. Ecology and Society 23(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10098-230307
The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America
The Electrification–Malaria Nexus: The Case of Rural Uganda
The extractive imperative in Latin America
The demise of a new conservation and development policy? Exploring the tensions of the Yasuní ITT initiative
The Effects of Rwanda’s Biogas Program on Energy Expenditure and Fuel Use
The extractive imperative in Latin America
The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America
The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground
As the urgency of responding to climate change and the insufficiency of current demand-side policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions become clearer, supply-side initiatives are beginning to gain prominence and acceptance globally. Policies such as moratoria and compensation for leaving fossil fuels unextracted in exchange for financial compensation of rights owners are likely to be effective and complementary to existing policies. A number o…
Imaginaries of development through extraction: The ‘History of Bolivian Petroleum’ and the present view of the future
This article offers a reading of the ideas expressed in Walter Soln Romero Gonzales' mural, the 'History of Bolivian Petroleum' from 1956, and juxtaposes these ideas to the current public discourse that emerges from speeches of high officials and from policy documents of President Evo Morales' government. The objective is to investigate the understanding of the role natural resources vis--vis development in Bolivia at these two points in time and…
International Investment Agreements, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Texaco/Chevron Case From the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Texaco/Chevron lawsuit, which started in November 1993 and is still being litigated in 2020, is a prominent example of the process of judicialization of environmental conflict. The Ecuadorian plaintiffs claim that the oil company's operations generated ruinous impacts on the environment and on the development prospects and health of nearby individuals and communities. The tortuous and lengthy judiciary process was further hindered by an arbit…
Community-Based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This paper reports on an ongoing initiative that seeks to enhance the detection, monitoring, and reporting capabilities of local communities in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon through the introduction of hardware and digital tools, as a strategy to strengthen their ability to produce socio-environmental evidence. A Community Based Monitoring (CBM) system has been created to link social organizations, fighting for environmental justice, and academi…
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease"? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon
Orta-Martínez, M., L. Pellegrini, and M. Arsel. 2018. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease”? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon. Ecology and Society 23(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10098-230307
Oil and Conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon: An Exploration of Motives and Objectives
This exploration piece challenges the dominant reading of oil-related social conflicts through an environmental prism. Through a methodological intervention that classifies conflicts as ‘brown’ (concerning primarily the distribution and investment of economic rents) or ‘green’ (demanding ecological remediation, improved extraction practices, or cessation of oil extraction altogether), it analyses a database of oil related conflicts in the Norther…
The demise of a new conservation and development policy? Exploring the tensions of the Yasuní ITT initiative
Crop diversification, dietary diversity and agricultural income: Empirical evidence from eight developing countries
This study sheds light on the dilemma between food crop specialisation and diversification. We use data from household surveys to estimate the effects of crop diversification on nutrition (dietary diversity) and on income (crops sold) of rural households from eight developing and transition economies. We find that the vast majority of households grow crops despite the modest contribution of agriculture to income. Most agricultural land is devoted…
Bhutan: Between Happiness and Horror
We have now clearly distinguished the ‘happiness’ ... in GNH [Gross National Happiness] from the fleeting, pleasurable ‘feel good’ moods so often associated with that term. We know that true abiding
Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Ongoing debates in conservation studies stress the dire consequences of 'fortress' and 'militarized' conservation at violent frontiers. Presenting evidence from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article shows how the park has become a focal point for armed insurgent groups in the region. Although fortress conservation has contributed to one major incident of violent resistance in recent years,…
A regional resource curse? A synthetic-control approach to oil extraction in Basilicata, Italy
Basilicata is a region of Southern Italy where the expansion of oil operations in the 1990s was promoted as an opportunity to foster economic development. Flash-forward to 2020, Basilicata is one of the poorest regions in Italy despite the exploitation of some of the largest onshore hydrocarbon reserves within the European Union. The coincidence of high poverty rates with abundant natural resources suggests that the region is experiencing a ‘reso…
Rural Electrification Now and Then: Comparing Contemporary Challenges in Developing Countries to the USA's Experience in Retrospect
Despite its widely recognized importance, electricity is not yet available everywhere, and there are many areas of the globe which still depend on alternative sources of energy such as wood, charcoal and kerosene. In contrast, the USA was the first country to be fully electrified. This article explores the current challenges faced by developing countries, presents the historical evidence from the USA and compares these experiences discussing the …
Joan Martinez-Alier
Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC
Global extractive imperative: From local resistance to unburnable fuels
Since the early 2000s, there has been an ‘extractive imperative’ in Latin America that made intensified extraction the policy solution to all socioeconomic challenges. More recently, a similar consensus has emerged in a diversity of political, economic and geographical contexts - such as Turkey, India and the United States - that makes it possible to speak of a ‘global extractive imperative’. The imperative is especially evident in settings also …
Forest Management and Poverty in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua: Reform Failures
The Impact of Tenancy Reform in West Bengal: Evidence from the National Sample Survey
Investment law v. supply-side climate policies: Insights from Rockhopper v. Italy and Lone Pine v. Canada
New fossil fuel developments are inconsistent with keeping global warming below 1.5 °C, and while most climate policies focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels, an emerging transversal consensus promotes efforts to simultaneously reduce supply. In this article, we discuss the obstacles to effective supply-side climate policies posed by international investment treaties that protect corporations against state interventions through investor-state…
Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders
To limit the increase in global mean temperature to 1.5°C, CO2 emissions should be capped at 440 gigatons. To achieve this, about 89 percent, 59 percent, and 58 percent of existing coal and conventional gas and oil reserves, respectively, need to remain unburned. This implies an economic cost for fossil fuel rights owners, and any successful climate policy will rely on resolving the distributional challenge of how to allocate the right to use the…
Conservation, extraction and social contracts at a violent frontier: Evidence from eastern DRC's Itombwe Nature Reserve
Conservation efforts must develop strategies to perform at violent frontiers where environmental values, mineral extraction and conflict intersect. Using war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Itombwe Nature Reserve as an illustrative example, this article explores how community conservation is implemented and received at a violent frontier. Taking inspiration from an emerging body of literature which portrays conservation as a form of ‘…
The Effects of Rwanda’s Biogas Program on Energy Expenditure and Fuel Use
Planning and Natural Resources in Bolivia: Between Rules without Participation and Participation without Rules
This article focuses on participation in the main planning documents produced in Bolivia in the first decade of the 2000s: the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the National Development Plan (PND). We analyze how these planning instruments have been able to capture popular participation through diverse mechanisms and how these practices fit in the current mainstream participation discourse. Special attention is paid to natural resources…
Natural Resources and Economic Development by Edward B. Barbier
Assessing the State of the World: Environment and Development
Causes of corruption: A survey of cross-country analyses and extended results
We survey and assess the empirical literature on the sources of corruption Thanks to the improved availability of data, we are able to produce an improved cross-country econometric model to test well-established and more recent hypotheses jointly. We do not find that the common law system, or a past as a British colony predicts corruption. Our results support cultural theories on the causes of corruption, and suggest that a medium-long exposure t…
The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy by Johann Graf Lambsdorff
The Impact of Tenancy Reform in West Bengal: Evidence from the National Sample Survey
Forest Management and Poverty in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua: Reform Failures
Corruption, Development and the Environment
Land reform in Bolivia: The forestry question
In this paper we discuss forestry issues related to land reform in Bolivia. We fi nd that although the current land reform satisfi es most of the conditions necessary for adequately addressing development issues in the agrarian sector, it does not deal with many challenges related to forest management, and in fact contains provisions confl icting with the objectives of sustainable forest management. Given that a large part of the land being title…
Rural Electrification Now and Then: Comparing Contemporary Challenges in Developing Countries to the USA's Experience in Retrospect
Despite its widely recognized importance, electricity is not yet available everywhere, and there are many areas of the globe which still depend on alternative sources of energy such as wood, charcoal and kerosene. In contrast, the USA was the first country to be fully electrified. This article explores the current challenges faced by developing countries, presents the historical evidence from the USA and compares these experiences discussing the …
Planning and Natural Resources in Bolivia: Between Rules without Participation and Participation without Rules
This article focuses on participation in the main planning documents produced in Bolivia in the first decade of the 2000s: the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the National Development Plan (PND). We analyze how these planning instruments have been able to capture popular participation through diverse mechanisms and how these practices fit in the current mainstream participation discourse. Special attention is paid to natural resources…
Joan Martinez-Alier
Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win‐win solutions
In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in improving environmental governance, we argue that over‐reliance on payments as win‐win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes, similar to earlier experience with integrated conservation and development projects. Our objective is to raise awareness, particularly amo…
The demise of a new conservation and development policy? Exploring the tensions of the Yasuní ITT initiative
The Effects of Rwanda’s Biogas Program on Energy Expenditure and Fuel Use
Crop diversification, dietary diversity and agricultural income: Empirical evidence from eight developing countries
This study sheds light on the dilemma between food crop specialisation and diversification. We use data from household surveys to estimate the effects of crop diversification on nutrition (dietary diversity) and on income (crops sold) of rural households from eight developing and transition economies. We find that the vast majority of households grow crops despite the modest contribution of agriculture to income. Most agricultural land is devoted…
Bhutan: Between Happiness and Horror
We have now clearly distinguished the ‘happiness’ ... in GNH [Gross National Happiness] from the fleeting, pleasurable ‘feel good’ moods so often associated with that term. We know that true abiding
The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America
The Electrification–Malaria Nexus: The Case of Rural Uganda
The extractive imperative in Latin America
Oil and Conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon: An Exploration of Motives and Objectives
This exploration piece challenges the dominant reading of oil-related social conflicts through an environmental prism. Through a methodological intervention that classifies conflicts as ‘brown’ (concerning primarily the distribution and investment of economic rents) or ‘green’ (demanding ecological remediation, improved extraction practices, or cessation of oil extraction altogether), it analyses a database of oil related conflicts in the Norther…
Imaginaries of development through extraction: The ‘History of Bolivian Petroleum’ and the present view of the future
This article offers a reading of the ideas expressed in Walter Soln Romero Gonzales' mural, the 'History of Bolivian Petroleum' from 1956, and juxtaposes these ideas to the current public discourse that emerges from speeches of high officials and from policy documents of President Evo Morales' government. The objective is to investigate the understanding of the role natural resources vis--vis development in Bolivia at these two points in time and…
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease"? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon
Orta-Martínez, M., L. Pellegrini, and M. Arsel. 2018. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease”? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon. Ecology and Society 23(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10098-230307
Community-Based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This paper reports on an ongoing initiative that seeks to enhance the detection, monitoring, and reporting capabilities of local communities in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon through the introduction of hardware and digital tools, as a strategy to strengthen their ability to produce socio-environmental evidence. A Community Based Monitoring (CBM) system has been created to link social organizations, fighting for environmental justice, and academi…
Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia ‐ by Young, K. A
International Investment Agreements, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Texaco/Chevron Case From the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Texaco/Chevron lawsuit, which started in November 1993 and is still being litigated in 2020, is a prominent example of the process of judicialization of environmental conflict. The Ecuadorian plaintiffs claim that the oil company's operations generated ruinous impacts on the environment and on the development prospects and health of nearby individuals and communities. The tortuous and lengthy judiciary process was further hindered by an arbit…
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