
Daniela DEL BENE
- Position
- Research Grant Holder
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daniela.delbene@unive.it
- Website
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www.unive.it/people/daniela.delbene (personal record)
Academic Training
2018 PhD in Environmental Science and Technology at the Institut de Ciencias i Tecnologia Ambientals - ICTA, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona - UAB, Spain.
2010 Laurea Specialistica (MA) in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences – University of Turin, Italy
2007 Laurea di Primo Livello – Triennale (BA) in International and Diplomatic Sciences (International Relations) at the University of Triest, Italy
Academic Work Experience
2024 and currently: Research Grant Holder at Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea (DSAAM), Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
2023 – 2024: Visiting researcher at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with Lab on Area studies for Sustainability Transformations (LAST)
2022 - 2023: Post-doctoral research fellow at the Balzan Award project at ICTA - UAB
2018 - 2021: Post-doctoral research fellow at EU ERC ENVJUSTICE project at ICTA-UAB. Full-time position; main editor and chief coordinator of the EJAtlas, co-leader of the work package on Environmental Justice and Conflicts of the ENVJUSTICE project
2017 – 2018: PhD researcher at the EU ERC ENVJUSTICE project. Full-time position; main editor and chief coordinator of the EJAtlas
2017 – 2019: Researcher at RecerCaixa HAMLETS project at ICTA-UAB. Part-time collaboration; advisor on mapping work, lecturer for graduate and undergraduate students, field work in Catalunya, Spain.
2015 – 2016: PhD researcher at ACKnowl-EJ project at ICTA-UAB, funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). Full-time position; doctoral researcher, editor-in-chief of EJAtlas, and project assistant during the project's start-up year. Fieldwork in India and South America.
2012–2014: PhD researcher on the EU FP7 SiS EJOLT project at ICTA-UAB. Full-time position; PhD researcher and editor-in-chief of EJAtlas – Global Atlas of Environmental Justice. Fieldwork in India, Thailand, and Sri Lanka.
Academic mobility
Research visit to Wageningen University as part of the ERC Riverhood project with Prof. Rutgerd Boelens (May 2023)
ERASMUS exchange program at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University (Germany) 2005–2006.
Publications
- Brombal, D., Foggin, M., Pearson, K.R., Del Bene, D., Cui, M., Moriggi, A., Razmkhah, A., Lora-Wainwright, A., Peterson, C., Kolipaka, S. and Tritto, A., Life Beyond the Checklist: Revitalizing the Potential of Environmental Impact Assessments Through Co-Creation. Available at SSRN 5168300.
- Bontempi, A., Venturi, P., Del Bene, D., Scheidel, A., Zaldo-Aubanell, Q. and Zaragoza, R.M., 2023. Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice. Global Environmental Change, 82, p.102740.
- Hanaček, K., Tran, D., Landau, A., Sanz, T., Thiri, M.A., Navas, G., Del Bene, D., Liu, J., Walter, M., Lopez, A. and Roy, B., 2024. “We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. Sustainability science, 19(6), pp.1789-1808.
- Gaona, S.R., Del Bene, D., Argento, M., Ávila, S., Veintimilla, A.M., Jeziorny, D. and Milanez, F., 2023. Transición energética. Consenso hegemónico y disputas desde el Sur. Ecología Política, (65), pp.4-8.
- Del Bene, D. and Avila, S. (2023) Critical Mapping for Researching and Acting Upon Environmental Conflicts – The Case of the EJAtlas. In Muradian, R. and Villamayor, S. (eds) The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. Springer
- Scheidel, A., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Bara, A. H., Del Bene, D., David-Chavez, D. M., Fanari, E., ... & Whyte, K. P. (2023). Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights. Science advances, 9(23), eade9557.
- Scheidel, A., Liu, J., Del Bene, D., Mingorria, S., & Villamayor-Tomas, S. (2023). Ecologies of contention: How more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(7), 2777-2798.
- Lele, S., Del Bene, D., Avcı, D., Roa-Avendaño, T., Roy, B., Sahu, G., ... & Moore, D. (2023). Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 64, 101346.
- Bontempi, A., Venturi, P., Del Bene, D., Scheidel, A., Zaldo-Aubanell, Q., & Zaragoza, R. M. (2023). Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102740.
- Scheidel, A., Sorman, A. H., Avila, S., Del Bene, D., & Ott, J. Renewables Grabbing: Land and Resource Appropriations in the Global Energy Transition. In Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (pp. 189-204). Routledge.
- González-Hidalgo, M., Del Bene, D., Iniesta-Arandia, I., Piñeiro, C., (2022). Emotional healing as part of environmental and climate justice processes: Frameworks and community-based experiences in times of environmental suffering. Polit. Geogr. 98, 102721.
- Bontempi, A., Del Bene, D., & Di Felice, L. J. (2021). Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-26.
- Saes, B. M., Del Bene, D., Neyra, R., Wagner, L., & Martínez-Alier, J. (2021). Environmental justice and corporate social irresponsibility: the case of the mining company Vale SA. Ambiente & Sociedade, 24, e0014.
- Scheidel A., Del Bene D., Liu J., Navas G., Mingorría S., Demaria F., Avila S., Roy B., Ertör I., Temper L., Martínez-Alier J. (2020) "Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview". Global Environmental Change, vol. 63
- Temper, L., Avila, S., Del Bene, D., ... & Walter, M. (2020). Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), 123004.
- Siciliano, G., Del Bene, D., Scheidel, A., Liu, J., & Urban, F. (2019). Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South. Current Opinion in environmental sustainability, 37, 20-27.
- Del Bene D., Scheidel A., Temper L. (2018) "More dams, more violence? A global analysis on resistances and repression around conflictive dams through co-produced knowledge". Sustainability Science. p. 1-17Martinez-Alier, J., Temper, L., Del Bene, D., & Scheidel, A. (2016). Is there a global environmental justice movement?. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(3), 731-755.
- Del Bene, D., Soler, J. P., & Roa, T. (2019). Energy sovereignty. In Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F., & Acosta Espinosa, A. (2019). Pluriverse: A post-development dictionary. Tulika Books editor
- Temper L., Demaria F., Scheidel A., Del Bene D., Martinez-Alier J. (2018) Special Issue editorial "The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability". Sustainability Science, vol. 13, num. 3, p. 573–584
- Martínez-Alier, J., Owen, A., Roy, B., Del Bene, D., & Rivin, D. (2018). Blockadia: movimientos de base contra los combustibles fósiles ya favor de la justicia climática. Anuario Internacional CIDOB, 41-49.
- Temper L., Del Bene D. (2016) "Transforming knowledge creation for environmental and epistemic justice". Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. vol. 20, p. 41-49
- Temper L., Del Bene D., and Martinez-Alier, J. (2015) "Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas." Journal of Political Ecology 22.1 : 255-278.
- Martinez-Alier, J., Anguelovski, I., Bond, P., Del Bene, D., Demaria, F., & Gerber, J. F., Lucie Greyl, Willi Haas, Hali Healy, Victoria Marín-Burgos, and et al. (2014)“Between activism and science: Grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations.”. Journal of Political Ecology, 21, 20-60.
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