Giovanna Gioli
Biographic Data
| ID | 952798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanna Gioli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Gioli |
| SIGNATURE | GIOLI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bath Spa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6918-3544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘From Space to Village’
This article draws attention to the neglected visual construction of climate as a service , which we claim is central to understanding processes of datafication and financialisation at the core of adaptive development interventions in the era that followed the 2007–2009 global financial crisis. To do so, it foregrounds the notion of climate services —data‐driven guidance produced by satellites, sensors and increasingly Artificial Intelligence (AI…
Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation
Highlighting a gap in adaptation studies regarding the role of digitalisation and datafication in environmental and climate governance, we argue for the need to critically engage with the ever-expanding experimental territory of smart adaptation . To accomplish this task, we emphasise the need to forge new alliances across the fields of digital geographies, political ecology, and political economy. We trace a genealogy of the discourse on smart a…
Thinking as Anarchists
Thinking as Anarchists brings together a series of influential papers from the Italian anarchist journal Volontà and the extended international circle connected to it. Initially published in the early 1980s, most of these papers have never appeared in English before. Together, they form a treasure trove of intellectual provocations on issues as diverse as authority, the state, utopia, freedom, patriarchy, and how we might envisage an anarchist ap…
Thinking as Anarchists
Newly translates and annotates 13 papers from the 1984 international anarchist gathering in Venice Introduces the meeting and these papers in their political and historical context, allowing new readers to engage with them for the first time Features a wealth of vibrant photographs and visual materials, providing a glimpse into the striking richness and creativity of anarchist aesthetics at the time Considers the journal Volontà in relation to em…
Understanding rural outmigration and agricultural land use change in the Gandaki Basin, Nepal
This study investigates agricultural land use change in Chitwan, Nuwakot and Lamjung districts of Nepal during 1990 –2017 in relation to rural outmigration. Agriculture in Nepal is characterized by subsistence farming, low productivity, limited access to markets, constraints of terrain, poor economic returns, and vulnerability to natural hazards now exacerbated by climate change. These challenging circumstances are further compounded by several p…
Clouded skies
As dangerous climate change becomes more and more likely, a consensus has been reached on the importance of addressing Loss and Damage (L&D) residual to mitigation (i.e., preventing climate change) and adaptation (i.e., adjusting in order to avert adverse impacts). In spite of sharp divisions in terms of how to understand and operationalize L&D, most approaches draw on classic environmental governance, with discrete analogic interventions impleme…
Climate migration myths
Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province, Pakistan
This paper reflects critically on the results of a vulnerability assessment process at the household and community scale using a quantitative vulnerabilities and capacities index. It validates a methodology for a social vulnerability assessment at the local scale in 62 villages across four agro-ecological/livelihood zones in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The study finds that the move from vulnerability narratives to numbers improves the comparability…
Neither Heroines nor Victims
Circular labour migration is frequently portrayed as a gender-neutral phenomenon. Despite the growing literature on the feminization of migration, scholarly and policy literature is often gender-blind. In Nepal, over the last decade, the share of women migrant workers has significantly increased. The National Population Census 2011 shows that about 13 per cent of the absentee population is composed of women. Due to prevailing patriarchal norms an…
Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characterist…
One step forward, two steps back? The fading contours of (in)justice in competing discourses on climate migration
In recent debates on climate change and migration, the focus on the figure of 'climate refugees' (tainted by environmental determinism and a crude understanding of human mobility) has given ground to a broader conception of the climate-migration nexus. In particular, the idea that migration can represent a legitimate adaptation strategy has emerged strongly. This appears to be a positive development, marked by softer tones that de-securitise clim…
Gendering flood early warning systems
After the devastating 2010 flood in Pakistan, an early warning system (EWS) for river floods has been established in the Lai basin passing through the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Inequalities in society are amplified at the time of disasters, and EWS that are people-centred proved more effective in communicating risk and saving people. This article undertakes a gender analysis of Pakistan's EWS for each of the four pillars of people-…
Gender, Conflict, and Global Environmental Change
Gender has long been identified as an important variable in both conflict (de-)escalation processes and vulnerability or adaptive capacity toward global environmental change. We understand gender a
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy and its Gendered Implications
Natural resource-dependent isolated mountain communities are highly vulnerable to climatic and environmental stresses, and migration is often the most important livelihood diversification strategy for insuring a household against shocks. In this paper, we present some key results from a study conducted in the West Karakoram region of Pakistan to assess the influence of environmental shocks on migration and the effect of remittances on the adaptiv…
One step forward, two steps back? The fading contours of (in)justice in competing discourses on climate migration
In recent debates on climate change and migration, the focus on the figure of 'climate refugees' (tainted by environmental determinism and a crude understanding of human mobility) has given ground to a broader conception of the climate-migration nexus. In particular, the idea that migration can represent a legitimate adaptation strategy has emerged strongly. This appears to be a positive development, marked by softer tones that de-securitise clim…
Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characterist…
Gender, Conflict, and Global Environmental Change
Gender has long been identified as an important variable in both conflict (de-)escalation processes and vulnerability or adaptive capacity toward global environmental change. We understand gender a
Clouded skies
As dangerous climate change becomes more and more likely, a consensus has been reached on the importance of addressing Loss and Damage (L&D) residual to mitigation (i.e., preventing climate change) and adaptation (i.e., adjusting in order to avert adverse impacts). In spite of sharp divisions in terms of how to understand and operationalize L&D, most approaches draw on classic environmental governance, with discrete analogic interventions impleme…
Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province, Pakistan
This paper reflects critically on the results of a vulnerability assessment process at the household and community scale using a quantitative vulnerabilities and capacities index. It validates a methodology for a social vulnerability assessment at the local scale in 62 villages across four agro-ecological/livelihood zones in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The study finds that the move from vulnerability narratives to numbers improves the comparability…
Gendering flood early warning systems
After the devastating 2010 flood in Pakistan, an early warning system (EWS) for river floods has been established in the Lai basin passing through the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Inequalities in society are amplified at the time of disasters, and EWS that are people-centred proved more effective in communicating risk and saving people. This article undertakes a gender analysis of Pakistan's EWS for each of the four pillars of people-…
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy and its Gendered Implications
Natural resource-dependent isolated mountain communities are highly vulnerable to climatic and environmental stresses, and migration is often the most important livelihood diversification strategy for insuring a household against shocks. In this paper, we present some key results from a study conducted in the West Karakoram region of Pakistan to assess the influence of environmental shocks on migration and the effect of remittances on the adaptiv…
Gendering flood early warning systems
After the devastating 2010 flood in Pakistan, an early warning system (EWS) for river floods has been established in the Lai basin passing through the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Inequalities in society are amplified at the time of disasters, and EWS that are people-centred proved more effective in communicating risk and saving people. This article undertakes a gender analysis of Pakistan's EWS for each of the four pillars of people-…
Gender, Conflict, and Global Environmental Change
Gender has long been identified as an important variable in both conflict (de-)escalation processes and vulnerability or adaptive capacity toward global environmental change. We understand gender a
Neither Heroines nor Victims
Circular labour migration is frequently portrayed as a gender-neutral phenomenon. Despite the growing literature on the feminization of migration, scholarly and policy literature is often gender-blind. In Nepal, over the last decade, the share of women migrant workers has significantly increased. The National Population Census 2011 shows that about 13 per cent of the absentee population is composed of women. Due to prevailing patriarchal norms an…
Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics
This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characterist…
One step forward, two steps back? The fading contours of (in)justice in competing discourses on climate migration
In recent debates on climate change and migration, the focus on the figure of 'climate refugees' (tainted by environmental determinism and a crude understanding of human mobility) has given ground to a broader conception of the climate-migration nexus. In particular, the idea that migration can represent a legitimate adaptation strategy has emerged strongly. This appears to be a positive development, marked by softer tones that de-securitise clim…
Climate migration myths
Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province, Pakistan
This paper reflects critically on the results of a vulnerability assessment process at the household and community scale using a quantitative vulnerabilities and capacities index. It validates a methodology for a social vulnerability assessment at the local scale in 62 villages across four agro-ecological/livelihood zones in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The study finds that the move from vulnerability narratives to numbers improves the comparability…
Understanding rural outmigration and agricultural land use change in the Gandaki Basin, Nepal
This study investigates agricultural land use change in Chitwan, Nuwakot and Lamjung districts of Nepal during 1990 –2017 in relation to rural outmigration. Agriculture in Nepal is characterized by subsistence farming, low productivity, limited access to markets, constraints of terrain, poor economic returns, and vulnerability to natural hazards now exacerbated by climate change. These challenging circumstances are further compounded by several p…
Clouded skies
As dangerous climate change becomes more and more likely, a consensus has been reached on the importance of addressing Loss and Damage (L&D) residual to mitigation (i.e., preventing climate change) and adaptation (i.e., adjusting in order to avert adverse impacts). In spite of sharp divisions in terms of how to understand and operationalize L&D, most approaches draw on classic environmental governance, with discrete analogic interventions impleme…
Thinking as Anarchists
Thinking as Anarchists brings together a series of influential papers from the Italian anarchist journal Volontà and the extended international circle connected to it. Initially published in the early 1980s, most of these papers have never appeared in English before. Together, they form a treasure trove of intellectual provocations on issues as diverse as authority, the state, utopia, freedom, patriarchy, and how we might envisage an anarchist ap…
Thinking as Anarchists
Newly translates and annotates 13 papers from the 1984 international anarchist gathering in Venice Introduces the meeting and these papers in their political and historical context, allowing new readers to engage with them for the first time Features a wealth of vibrant photographs and visual materials, providing a glimpse into the striking richness and creativity of anarchist aesthetics at the time Considers the journal Volontà in relation to em…
‘From Space to Village’
This article draws attention to the neglected visual construction of climate as a service , which we claim is central to understanding processes of datafication and financialisation at the core of adaptive development interventions in the era that followed the 2007–2009 global financial crisis. To do so, it foregrounds the notion of climate services —data‐driven guidance produced by satellites, sensors and increasingly Artificial Intelligence (AI…
Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation
Highlighting a gap in adaptation studies regarding the role of digitalisation and datafication in environmental and climate governance, we argue for the need to critically engage with the ever-expanding experimental territory of smart adaptation . To accomplish this task, we emphasise the need to forge new alliances across the fields of digital geographies, political ecology, and political economy. We trace a genealogy of the discourse on smart a…
Climate change (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)