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Kallis, Giorgos
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Giorgos Kallis is an environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology with an emphasis on water issues. He was born in Athens, Greece, September 8, 1972. In 2008 he completed a Marie Curie International Fellowship at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley. His research there focused on socio-environmental coevolution, adaptive co-governance in large river basins, and droughts and social adaptation. He has a PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of the Aegean in Greece and a Masters in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Imperial College, London. He worked from 1995 to 1996 at the Office of Scientific and Technological Assessment of the European Parliament (STOA) contributing to the revision of the EU water directives. He has also served as a consultant for UNEP-MAP, PAP-RAC preparing guidelines for integrated urban water management in coastal areas (2004).
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Research Interests
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My research forms part of the inter-disciplinary field of environmental studies, that is, the study of the social and bio-physical causes of environmental degradation. I´ve worked on various topics, the connecting thread being water: drought vulnerability, conflicts and urban water conservation; adaptive water management and collaborative basin institutions; and methods for participatory water planning. I am motivated by a quest to cross conceptual divides between the social and the natural domains as, for example, in my collaboration with R. Norgaard at Berkeley, where we advanced the concept of socio-ecological coevolution. I am interested on the political-economic roots of environmental degradation and its uneven distribution along lines of power, income and class. My current research is motivated by the double global economic and ecological crisis. I explore the idea of sustainable de-growth: a smooth economic downscaling to a sustainable future where we can live better with less.
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KeyWords
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drought vulnerability, political ecology, coevolution, governance, de-growth
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