Monica Di Gregorio

Biographic Data

ID1414352
NAMEMonica Di Gregorio
GIVEN NAMESMonica
FAMILY NAMEDi Gregorio
SIGNATUREDI GREGORIO M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0003-2545-217X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS290
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Power and inclusion in Redd+ policy networks in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessFelicien Kengoum Djiegni, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2026

    In forest governance research, how actors' power configurations shape national policy outcomes remain understudied, particularly regarding how distinct dimensions of power interact to influence these outcomes. We examine how two dimensions of power- reputational power (visibility of influence) as a proxy of overall multi-dimensional power, and collaborative power (relational embeddedness)- interact to shape policy outcomes. We introduce a two-dim…

  • Relational Processes and Networks in Environmental Politics

    Open AccessEva Fernández G G, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEPolitics and Governance2025References: 26

    The inherently relational nature of environmental politics has stimulated the growth of network-oriented research. This concluding commentary emphasizes relationality in environmental political processes as central to understanding multilevel, multi-actor socio-ecological polities. We consider the dual role of networks—both as connecting structures and as prisms of cognitive and symbolic interactions that co-constitute identities and value system…

  • The Politics of Environmental Networks

    Open AccessMonica Di Gregorio, Petr Ocelík et al.ARTICLEPolitics and Governance2025References: 17

    Environmental political networks research uses social network analysis to investigate the political processes underlying the complex relational dynamics of environmental governance. The analysis of internal political processes sheds light on the relational mechanisms of collaboration and contention that underpin coalition-building, mobilization, and environmental policy decision-making. Additionally, understanding environmental outcomes requires …

  • Data and information in a political forest: The case of Redd

    Open AccessMaria Brockhaus, Veronique De Sy et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024References: 17

  • Climate Governance and Federalism: A Forum of Federations Comparative Policy Analysis

    Open AccessFabiana Barbi Seleguim, Fernando Rei et al.BOOKClimate Governance and Federalism2023

    The majority of the world's largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realisation of the world's climate mitigation objectives therefore depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyse the emergence of low-carbon societies. This volume brings together leading experts to explore whether federal or decentra…

  • To what extent is Redd + integrated into land-use sectors driving deforestation? Insights from Cameroon

    Open AccessJosiane Gakou‐Kakeu, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2023

  • Evaluating the impact of adaptation interventions on vulnerability and livelihood resilience

    Open AccessM F Gaworek-Michalczenia, Susannah M Sallu et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2022

    Robust evaluation of adaptation interventions is necessary to monitor adaptation projects and ensure broader accountability in adaptation responses. Yet, to date very few frameworks are formulated with a robust impact assessment in mind. This study uses the Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) research design to develop the BACI Adaptation Impact Evaluation Framework. The framework compares participating and non-participating households across time…

  • Redd+ policy implementation and institutional interplay: Evidence from three pilot projects in Cameroon

    Open AccessJosiane Gakou‐Kakeu, Josiane Gakou-Kakeu et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021Cited by: 2References: 24

  • The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity

    Open AccessMaria Brockhaus, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Cited by: 4References: 89

    Halting forest loss and achieving sustainable development in an equitable manner require state, non-state actors, and entire societies in the Global North and South to tackle deeply established patterns of inequality and power relations embedded in forest frontiers. Forest and climate governance in the Global South can provide an avenue for the transformational change needed—yet, does it? We analyse the politics and power in four cases of mitigat…

  • Policy learning as complex contagion: How social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation

    Open AccessAntti Gronow, Maria Brockhaus et al.ARTICLEPolicy Sciences2021Cited by: 13References: 23

    Policy learning can alter the perceptions of both the seriousness and the causes of a policy problem, thus also altering the perceived need to do something about the problem. This then allows for the informed weighing of different policy options. Taking a social network perspective, we argue that the role of social influence as a driver of policy learning has been overlooked in the literature. Network research has shown that normatively laden bel…

  • Policy learning in Redd+ Donor Countries: Norway, Germany and the UK

    Open AccessHeike Schroeder, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 3References: 17

  • Building authority and legitimacy in transnational climate change governance: Evidence from the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force

    Open AccessMonica Di Gregorio, Kate Massarella et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 8References: 28

  • Multi-level processes and the institutionalization of forest conservation discourses: Insights from Natura 2000

    Open AccessMireia Pecurul-Botines, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2019Cited by: 5References: 14

  • Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

    Open AccessMonica Di Gregorio, Leandra Fatorelli et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 77References: 36

    This article proposes an innovative theoretical framework that combines institutional and policy network approaches to study multi-level governance. The framework is used to derive a number of propositions on how cross-level power imbalances shape communication and collaboration across multiple levels of governance. The framework is then applied to examine the nature of cross-level interactions in climate change mitigation and adaptation policy p…

  • How institutions and beliefs affect environmental discourse: Evidence from an eight-country survey on Redd

    Open AccessMonica Di Gregorio, Caleb Gallemore et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 13References: 20

    This paper investigates the adoption of discourses on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) across different national contexts. It draws on institutional theories to develop and test a number of hypotheses on the role of shared beliefs and politico-economic institutions in determining the discursive choices of policy actors. The results show that win–win ecological modernization discourse, embraced by powerful gover…

  • Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages

    Open AccessMonica Di Gregorio, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2016Cited by: 23References: 5

    This article re-conceptualizes Climate Policy Integration (CPI) in the land use sector to highlight the need to assess the level of integration of mitigation and adaptation objectives and policies to minimize trade-offs and to exploit synergies. It suggests that effective CPI in the land use sector requires i) internal climate policy coherence between mitigation and adaptation objectives and policies; ii) external climate policy coherence between…

  • Framing national Redd+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

    Open AccessMarjanneke J Vijge, Maria Brockhaus et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 13References: 1

  • Integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture and forestry: Opportunities and trade‐offs

    Open AccessBruno Locatelli, Charlotte Pavageau et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2015Cited by: 5References: 9

    Although many activities can jointly contribute to the climate change strategies of adaptation and mitigation, climate policies have generally treated these strategies separately. In recent years, there has been a growing interest shown by practitioners in agriculture, forestry, and landscape management in the links between the two strategies. This review explores the opportunities and trade‐offs when managing landscapes for both climate change m…

  • Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on Redd+ Across Seven Countries

    Monica Di Gregorio, Maria Brockhaus et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Politics2015Cited by: 8References: 12

    This article investigates the public discourses on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) across seven countries, to assess whether they support policy reforms. We argue that transformational discourses have at least one of these characteristics: they advocate specific policy reforms that address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation; take into account the potential risks of a REDD+ mechanism; go beyond…

  • Transaction costs, power, and multi-level forest governance in Indonesia

    Open AccessCaleb Gallemore, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2015Cited by: 21References: 17

  • National Redd+ policy networks: From Cooperation to Conflict

    Open AccessMaria Brockhaus, Monica Di GregorioARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 4

    Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a financial mechanism aimed at providing incentives to reduce carbon emissions from forests and enhance carbon stocks. In most forest-rich developing countries, policy actors, i.e., state and nonstate as well as international and national, are designing national REDD+ policies. Actors' interests and beliefs shape patterns of interactions, ranging from cooperation to conflict,…

  • Gaining Access to the State: Political Opportunities and Agency in Forest Activism in Indonesia

    Monica Di GregorioARTICLESocial movement studies2014Cited by: 3References: 39

    This paper investigates the complex nature of access to the state for environmental movement organisations (EMOs) and adopts an interactionist approach to explore inter-organisational networking between EMOs and state actors. The paper supports existing evidence that proximate political opportunities are in part contingent on the interests, claims and frames of policy actors. The main theoretical contribution of this paper is to illustrate that E…

  • The Redd+ policy arena in Vietnam: Participation of Policy Actors

    Open AccessT T Pham, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 4

    Pham, T. T., M. Di Gregorio, R. Carmenta, M. Brockhaus, and D. N. Le. 2014. The REDD+ policy arena in Vietnam: participation of policy actors. Ecology and Society 19(2): 22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06389-190222

  • Redd+ policy networks: Exploring Actors and Power Structures in an Emerging Policy Domain

    Open AccessMaria Brockhaus, Monica Di Gregorio et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 4

    Brockhaus, M., M. Di Gregorio, and R. Carmenta. 2014. REDD+ policy networks: exploring actors and power structures in an emerging policy domain. Ecology and Society 19(4): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07098-190429

  • Multistakeholder environmental governance in action: Redd+ discourse coalitions in Tanzania

    Open AccessSalla Rantala, Monica Di GregorioARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 5

    Rantala, S., and M. Di Gregorio. 2014. Multistakeholder environmental governance in action: REDD+ discourse coalitions in Tanzania. Ecology and Society 19(2): 66. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06536-190266