Marco Grasso
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Grasso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Grasso |
| SIGNATURE | GRASSO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6869-5959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Algorithmic bias, fairness, and inclusivity: A multilevel framework for justice-oriented AI
Contesting fossil extractivism: Practices of deactivation in Milan and Civitavecchia, Italy
Introduces the concept of deactivation as a strategic approach to dismantling fossil fuel systems, beyond conventional innovation-driven transitions. • Develops a relational approach to explain the resilience of fossil regimes through their embedded political, ideological, and infrastructural networks. • Provides a comparative analysis of Milan and Civitavecchia, illustrating contrasting modes of contestation: symbolic-urban versus territorial-lo…
Rethinking climate reparations through the fossil bloc
This Brief develops a framework for climate reparations grounded in principles of fault-based and political responsibility. Centred on the notion of the fossil bloc – a transnational constellation of fossil fuel producers, investors, political enablers and epistemic agents – it conceptualises fossil-related harm as a shared yet unequal consequence of production and structural facilitation. The framework allocates differentiated obligations across…
The resistance to solar energy expansion in Italy: A Systemic Perspective
This article examines the systemic resistance to the expansion of solar energy infrastructure in Italy. It does so with a focus on rural areas. Using a multifaceted methodological approach, the study analyses the economic, political, and cultural factors contributing to this resistance, which is closely intertwined with Italy’s reliance on fossil fuels. It identifies a complex network of opposing forces, including agricultural and industrial grou…
Rage against the fossil machine: The deactivation of fossil energy production in Italy
The ‘fossil machine’ is the powerful and widespread network that supports fossil fuels and obstructs their phase-out. This article assumes that in order to advance the decarbonisation of fossil-based socio-economic systems it is first necessary to ‘deactivate’ the related fossil machine: to investigate how to do so we propose a new reticular approach. The article adopts this approach to investigate the deactivation of the 2019–2022 fossil machine…
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility
This contribution argues that the fossil fuel industry has played a major role in human-driven climate change and should agree to shoulder the burden of the associated damages. To this end, the article develops a responsibility-based approach to operationalize and quantify fossil fuel companies' climate reparations and locate them in the current political economy context. It explains the rationale for a responsibility-based approach to climate re…
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages
Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: Why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill
The fossil industry has greatly contributed to the increase of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This evidence and five morally relevant facts establish its moral responsibility for climate harm. This responsibility imposes on fossil fuel companies a duty of reparation for the climate crisis which requires them to redress their wrongful actions that have led to climate harm by disgorging funds. The article justifies and dev…
Taranto: A flickering landscape of illusory progress, vanished hope, and invisible beauty
The article investigates the difficult and controversial landscape of Taranto, a recently industrialised city of southern Italy, which in the last 70 years has undergone dramatic changes. We analyse what the landscape is in material, cultural, and symbolic terms, what it does, and what it means in and for Taranto. In particular, by analysing bibliographic, cartographic, and audiovisual sources, we trace the evolution of contemporary Taranto, indi…
Legitimacy and procedural justice: How might stratospheric aerosol injection function in the public interest
The success of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) in limiting global heating requires the inclusion and maintenance of the political ideals of legitimacy and procedural justice. Without them, the prospects are slim that this institution can be developed and operated in the public interest in such a way that it will protect and promote social well-being by minimising climate-related harm. Long-term legitimacy and procedural justice are crucial …
Disrupting to decarbonise socio-energy systems: The ‘carbon transformation axes’ framework
From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis
A Moral Analysis of Carbon Majors’ Role in Climate Change
Two-thirds of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions over the past two centuries can be traced to the activities of a handful of companies (‘carbon majors'). Based on their direct contribution to climate change in terms of carbon emissions and on a number of morally relevant facts, this article proposes a normative framework to establish the responsibilities that carbon majors have in relation to climate change. Then, the analysis articulates…
Towards a broader climate ethics: Confronting the oil industry with morally relevant facts
Oily politics: A critical assessment of the oil and gas industry’s contribution to climate change
Just Instruments for Adaptation Finance
The paper discusses Baatz’s work (2018) published in a recent issue of this journal. It first considers the proposed framework of justice within which to evaluate instruments for adaptation finance; it then develops the framework’s criteria of fairness and feasibility further; finally, it proposes an option for increasing the capacity of Baatz’s framework to ensure that instruments for adaptation finance operate in a just way
Achieving the Paris goals: Consumption-based carbon accounting
The Political Feasibility of Consumption-Based Carbon Accounting
A consumption-based inventory can represent a promising accounting method for more effective collective action against carbon emissions. However, the current scientific debate has not yet proposed comprehensive analyses of the political features of consumption-based accounting. In particular, the ultimate objective of this article is to investigate the political feasibility of consumption-based accounting. The article argues that political feasib…
Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security
The Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security is a landmark publication which links the complexities of climate change to the wellbeing and resilience of human populations. It is written in an engaging and accessible way but also conveys the state of the art on both climate change research and work into human security, utilizing both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. Organized around thematic sections, each chapter is written by …
Climate ethics: With a Little Help From Moral Cognitive Neuroscience
Carbon emissions threaten the stability of climate systems and change climate dynamics in ways that inflict harm on present and future generations. Therefore, the ultimate moral crux of climate change involves harm avoidance and prevention. Moral cognitive neuroscience, and in particular the dual-process theory, indicates that up, close and personal harm triggers deontological moral reasoning, whereas harm originating from impersonal moral violat…
Sharing the Emission Budget
Scientific evidence suggests that to have a 75 per cent chance of limiting warming in 2100 to 2°C above the pre-industrial level, the cumulative emissions of CO2 over the period 2010–50 should be capped at 657.1 Gt. The objective of this article is to examine the distribution of such an emission budget by applying different ethical perspectives. In particular, the article first analyses the paths for sharing the emission budget, that is, the majo…
Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime
The role of justice in the North–South conflict in climate change: The case of negotiations on the Adaptation Fund
An ethical approach to climate adaptation finance
An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach
An ethical approach to climate adaptation finance
Oily politics: A critical assessment of the oil and gas industry’s contribution to climate change
An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach
Towards a broader climate ethics: Confronting the oil industry with morally relevant facts
Climate ethics: With a Little Help From Moral Cognitive Neuroscience
Carbon emissions threaten the stability of climate systems and change climate dynamics in ways that inflict harm on present and future generations. Therefore, the ultimate moral crux of climate change involves harm avoidance and prevention. Moral cognitive neuroscience, and in particular the dual-process theory, indicates that up, close and personal harm triggers deontological moral reasoning, whereas harm originating from impersonal moral violat…
The role of justice in the North–South conflict in climate change: The case of negotiations on the Adaptation Fund
Sharing the Emission Budget
Scientific evidence suggests that to have a 75 per cent chance of limiting warming in 2100 to 2°C above the pre-industrial level, the cumulative emissions of CO2 over the period 2010–50 should be capped at 657.1 Gt. The objective of this article is to examine the distribution of such an emission budget by applying different ethical perspectives. In particular, the article first analyses the paths for sharing the emission budget, that is, the majo…
The Political Feasibility of Consumption-Based Carbon Accounting
A consumption-based inventory can represent a promising accounting method for more effective collective action against carbon emissions. However, the current scientific debate has not yet proposed comprehensive analyses of the political features of consumption-based accounting. In particular, the ultimate objective of this article is to investigate the political feasibility of consumption-based accounting. The article argues that political feasib…
The resistance to solar energy expansion in Italy: A Systemic Perspective
This article examines the systemic resistance to the expansion of solar energy infrastructure in Italy. It does so with a focus on rural areas. Using a multifaceted methodological approach, the study analyses the economic, political, and cultural factors contributing to this resistance, which is closely intertwined with Italy’s reliance on fossil fuels. It identifies a complex network of opposing forces, including agricultural and industrial grou…
Disrupting to decarbonise socio-energy systems: The ‘carbon transformation axes’ framework
Achieving the Paris goals: Consumption-based carbon accounting
An Ethics-based Climate Agreement for the South Pacific Region
Rage against the fossil machine: The deactivation of fossil energy production in Italy
The ‘fossil machine’ is the powerful and widespread network that supports fossil fuels and obstructs their phase-out. This article assumes that in order to advance the decarbonisation of fossil-based socio-economic systems it is first necessary to ‘deactivate’ the related fossil machine: to investigate how to do so we propose a new reticular approach. The article adopts this approach to investigate the deactivation of the 2019–2022 fossil machine…
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility
This contribution argues that the fossil fuel industry has played a major role in human-driven climate change and should agree to shoulder the burden of the associated damages. To this end, the article develops a responsibility-based approach to operationalize and quantify fossil fuel companies' climate reparations and locate them in the current political economy context. It explains the rationale for a responsibility-based approach to climate re…
Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: Why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill
The fossil industry has greatly contributed to the increase of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This evidence and five morally relevant facts establish its moral responsibility for climate harm. This responsibility imposes on fossil fuel companies a duty of reparation for the climate crisis which requires them to redress their wrongful actions that have led to climate harm by disgorging funds. The article justifies and dev…
An Ethics-based Climate Agreement for the South Pacific Region
An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach
An ethical approach to climate adaptation finance
Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime
The role of justice in the North–South conflict in climate change: The case of negotiations on the Adaptation Fund
Sharing the Emission Budget
Scientific evidence suggests that to have a 75 per cent chance of limiting warming in 2100 to 2°C above the pre-industrial level, the cumulative emissions of CO2 over the period 2010–50 should be capped at 657.1 Gt. The objective of this article is to examine the distribution of such an emission budget by applying different ethical perspectives. In particular, the article first analyses the paths for sharing the emission budget, that is, the majo…
Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security
The Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security is a landmark publication which links the complexities of climate change to the wellbeing and resilience of human populations. It is written in an engaging and accessible way but also conveys the state of the art on both climate change research and work into human security, utilizing both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. Organized around thematic sections, each chapter is written by …
Climate ethics: With a Little Help From Moral Cognitive Neuroscience
Carbon emissions threaten the stability of climate systems and change climate dynamics in ways that inflict harm on present and future generations. Therefore, the ultimate moral crux of climate change involves harm avoidance and prevention. Moral cognitive neuroscience, and in particular the dual-process theory, indicates that up, close and personal harm triggers deontological moral reasoning, whereas harm originating from impersonal moral violat…
The Political Feasibility of Consumption-Based Carbon Accounting
A consumption-based inventory can represent a promising accounting method for more effective collective action against carbon emissions. However, the current scientific debate has not yet proposed comprehensive analyses of the political features of consumption-based accounting. In particular, the ultimate objective of this article is to investigate the political feasibility of consumption-based accounting. The article argues that political feasib…
Achieving the Paris goals: Consumption-based carbon accounting
Oily politics: A critical assessment of the oil and gas industry’s contribution to climate change
Just Instruments for Adaptation Finance
The paper discusses Baatz’s work (2018) published in a recent issue of this journal. It first considers the proposed framework of justice within which to evaluate instruments for adaptation finance; it then develops the framework’s criteria of fairness and feasibility further; finally, it proposes an option for increasing the capacity of Baatz’s framework to ensure that instruments for adaptation finance operate in a just way
Towards a broader climate ethics: Confronting the oil industry with morally relevant facts
A Moral Analysis of Carbon Majors’ Role in Climate Change
Two-thirds of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions over the past two centuries can be traced to the activities of a handful of companies (‘carbon majors'). Based on their direct contribution to climate change in terms of carbon emissions and on a number of morally relevant facts, this article proposes a normative framework to establish the responsibilities that carbon majors have in relation to climate change. Then, the analysis articulates…
Legitimacy and procedural justice: How might stratospheric aerosol injection function in the public interest
The success of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) in limiting global heating requires the inclusion and maintenance of the political ideals of legitimacy and procedural justice. Without them, the prospects are slim that this institution can be developed and operated in the public interest in such a way that it will protect and promote social well-being by minimising climate-related harm. Long-term legitimacy and procedural justice are crucial …
Disrupting to decarbonise socio-energy systems: The ‘carbon transformation axes’ framework
From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages
Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: Why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill
The fossil industry has greatly contributed to the increase of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This evidence and five morally relevant facts establish its moral responsibility for climate harm. This responsibility imposes on fossil fuel companies a duty of reparation for the climate crisis which requires them to redress their wrongful actions that have led to climate harm by disgorging funds. The article justifies and dev…
Taranto: A flickering landscape of illusory progress, vanished hope, and invisible beauty
The article investigates the difficult and controversial landscape of Taranto, a recently industrialised city of southern Italy, which in the last 70 years has undergone dramatic changes. We analyse what the landscape is in material, cultural, and symbolic terms, what it does, and what it means in and for Taranto. In particular, by analysing bibliographic, cartographic, and audiovisual sources, we trace the evolution of contemporary Taranto, indi…
Rage against the fossil machine: The deactivation of fossil energy production in Italy
The ‘fossil machine’ is the powerful and widespread network that supports fossil fuels and obstructs their phase-out. This article assumes that in order to advance the decarbonisation of fossil-based socio-economic systems it is first necessary to ‘deactivate’ the related fossil machine: to investigate how to do so we propose a new reticular approach. The article adopts this approach to investigate the deactivation of the 2019–2022 fossil machine…
The Case for Climate Reparations by Fossil Fuel Companies: Ethical Foundations, Monetary Estimates and Feasibility
This contribution argues that the fossil fuel industry has played a major role in human-driven climate change and should agree to shoulder the burden of the associated damages. To this end, the article develops a responsibility-based approach to operationalize and quantify fossil fuel companies' climate reparations and locate them in the current political economy context. It explains the rationale for a responsibility-based approach to climate re…
Rethinking climate reparations through the fossil bloc
This Brief develops a framework for climate reparations grounded in principles of fault-based and political responsibility. Centred on the notion of the fossil bloc – a transnational constellation of fossil fuel producers, investors, political enablers and epistemic agents – it conceptualises fossil-related harm as a shared yet unequal consequence of production and structural facilitation. The framework allocates differentiated obligations across…
The resistance to solar energy expansion in Italy: A Systemic Perspective
This article examines the systemic resistance to the expansion of solar energy infrastructure in Italy. It does so with a focus on rural areas. Using a multifaceted methodological approach, the study analyses the economic, political, and cultural factors contributing to this resistance, which is closely intertwined with Italy’s reliance on fossil fuels. It identifies a complex network of opposing forces, including agricultural and industrial grou…
Algorithmic bias, fairness, and inclusivity: A multilevel framework for justice-oriented AI
Political science (19 works) · Economics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Climate change (14 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Ecology (8 works)