Papers by Diana Mangalagiu
Springer climate, 2024
This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the transition process an... more This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the transition process and to identify empirical evidence of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) in the case studies on coal and carbon intensive regions (CCIRs) analyzed in the project TIPPING+. The interdisciplinary lens considers different modes of thought, frameworks, and multiple perspectives and interests from diverse stakeholders, a systems' understanding, and different culture considerations across the CCIRs. Within this interdisciplinary process, we applied various lenses to study the potential for SETPs by combining insights from human geography, social psychology, regional socio-technical systems, and political economy perspectives on the phases of low carbon transitions and on the justice component of the transitions. Subsequently, this chapter gives an overview of how the eight CCIRs case studies in this book have applied various interdisciplinary lenses to investigate the regional transition and the emergence of SETPs.
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
We develop and apply the concept of equitable knowledge co-production (EKC) by proposing a reflex... more We develop and apply the concept of equitable knowledge co-production (EKC) by proposing a reflexive framework to support inclusive stakeholder engagement with diverse knowledge-holders. This framework is built on the authors’ experiences of leading three ongoing Horizon 2020 projects, and its goal is to contribute to the realisation of epistemic and recognition justice in the context of large-scale research and innovation projects by raising awareness of how knowledge co-production is carried out during the project proposal and implementation phases.
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 2, 2009
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Aug 22, 2008
We have a climate crisis. We don’t mean the danger that human modifications of the earth atmospher... more We have a climate crisis. We don’t mean the danger that human modifications of the earth atmosphere will modify the earth’s climate with grave consequences for people and the planet. Rather we see as the crisis the inadequacy of society’s response to this threat
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People, 2019
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People, 2019
Armiento (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibil... more Armiento (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile), Rob Bailey (Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs), Elaine Baker
Environmental Science & Policy, 2020
Access to high-quality, timely and comparable data is a prerequisite for any effective decision-m... more Access to high-quality, timely and comparable data is a prerequisite for any effective decision-making process and having such data available for the environment is absolutely fundamental to efficient and evidence-based policymaking. This article reviews the establishment of a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) in Europe and Central Asia to improve our understanding of how environmental data value chains are being employed to produce, share and use reliable data on the environment and whether this data is used in policymaking. Three sources of data are utilised to analyse whether relevant environmental data and information are being drawn upon by policymakers, namely, the 2019 SEIS mid-term review, SEIS Factsheets and SEIS Gap Analysis Reports. The results reveal that the pan-European region still faces significant data harmonisation problems, owing in part to differences in types and methods of data collection, data definitions and legislation. Whilst problems in some individual country's participation have persisted since the launch of the SEIS initiative in the pan-European region, the development and successful piloting of the SEIS self-assessment framework is considered as evidence of positive progress. However, it remains difficult to adequately assess to what extent the data flows covered by this study impact on policymaking, nevertheless, the analysis serves to highlight the interlinkages between environmental data flows, policymakers and environmental governance. In practical terms, the paper demonstrate a disconnect between data production and data use in policymaking and emphasises the need to both improve our understanding of the political determinants of data use and to further investigate how the uptake of environmental data and information can be facilitated in policymaking.
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018
Most sharing mobility business models promise green and affordable transport in cities. However, ... more Most sharing mobility business models promise green and affordable transport in cities. However, their rapid scale-up processes have often caused significant disruption and stresses to urban governance. Free-floating bike sharing (FFBS) is highly-touted in Shanghai as a means to bring biking habits back to an overly car-congested city. Despite substantially changing the behaviour of Shanghai citizens to adopt shared bikes within a short period of time (2016)(2017), the FFBS has hit a threshold of oversupply, under-distribution and user misbehaviour problems, which endanger the environmental and social sustainability of innovative urban mobility schemes. In this paper, we focus on the FFBS case study and examine how commercial, political and social actors interact in addressing the emerging public problems in the FFBS scale-up process from a collaborative governance perspective. We find that the lack of recognition and integration of new social actors, such as user groups, as agents in the scheme are key obstacles to a fully-functioning government-business-society collaborative regime. We argue that this hindrance is a function of the existing socioeconomic relations within the city. Our results suggest that the city's government needs to be more agile to accommodate, nurture and integrate emerging social actors as governance partners in the sharing economy, in order to ensure its efficacy, resilience and sustainability. We propose an alternative governance model to improve the effectiveness of the collaborative governance regime towards urban sustainability through engaging the society in better and smarter ways in the sharing economy.
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has traditionally treated consumption and production... more Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has traditionally treated consumption and production as separate domains of economic activities with different solutions for sustainability. In the emerging sharing economy, consumption activities are more and more integrated into the production process of shared goods and services, which provides novel arenas for sustainability in cities. Increasingly, these sharing business models are aiming to solve long-standing urban sustainability problems, such as insufficient daily transport, and its problems of polluttion. In this article, we integrate theories of the sharing economy, value co-creation and SCP to argue that the emergent forms of value co-creation between consumers and sharing businesses provide new opportunities for SCP. We use two emergent and representative sharing mobility businesses in China e a bike-sharing scheme called Mobike and an electric-vehicle-sharing scheme called EVCARD e as case studies to analyze the sustainability potentials of value co-creation. The social, behavioral, economic, and infrastructural obstacles encountered in realising such potentials are also identified. Based on these empirical results, we propose a framework to conceptualize the emerging patterns of value co-creation between governments, sharing business firms, and consumers in the sharing economy. We highlight the importance of understanding value co-creation for development of SCP theory and practice to guide the evolving sharing economy.
Sustainability, 2017
The disruptive rise of the sharing economy has inspired multiple social innovations embodying sig... more The disruptive rise of the sharing economy has inspired multiple social innovations embodying significant potential towards achieving urban sustainability in crucial areas like low-carbon mobility. Increasingly, consumers in such sharing systems participate in activities of value co-creation together with firms and peers, such as through enforcing rules that help maintain trust and reciprocity. Why do people choose to invest their time and energy in co-creating values that may benefit wider social and environmental sustainability in the sharing economy? This study addresses this question through an analysis of an emerging shared mobility community, the innovative socio-economic relationships it has spawned, and the cultural and cognitive forces that underpin these new forms of economic organization and value creation in relation to sustainability. Through a mixed method case study of a newly emerged free-floating bike sharing system in China, called Mobike, the paper explores the main enabling factors which is transforming people from passive product/service receivers to active value co-creators in the sharing economy, such as self-efficacy, cognition of duty, anticipated awards and learning processes. The paper argues that business, social and government organizations may leverage these enabling factors to achieve a more sustainable sharing business and society. Finally, based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis, the article proposes a value co-creation framework between users and firms that involves a clear social learning process on the one hand, and has strong links with social innovations towards sustainability, on the other.
Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, 1999
Complexity Economics, 2013
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Reframing the Problem of Climate Change, 2013
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Papers by Diana Mangalagiu
• What is happening to the environment in the pan-European region and why?
• What are the consequences for the environment and the human population in the pan-European region?
• What is being done and how effective is it?
• What are the prospects for the environment in the future?
• What actions could be taken to achieve a more sustainable future?