Zografos, Christos

Christos Zografos (MSc, MAS, PhD) is Associate Professor in Environmental Social Sciences at UPF’s Department of Political and Social Sciences. He is also part of the Johns Hopkins University – Universitat Pompeu Fabra (JHU-UPF) Public Policy Center where he coordinates the Barcelona node of its research theme on climate and environment.

Christos is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist whose contributions include more than 50 scientific articles, book chapters and reports on social and political challenges of implementing climate policies. His research in political ecology looks at the politics of implementing low carbon (just transition) and climate adapted futures in a warming world, by examining social and political challenges to climate change mitigation (e.g. wind energy) and adaptation (e.g. sea- level rise, urban greening) policy responses. Christos’s ecological economics work has explored ways of improving environmental governance through the inclusion of plural values and languages of valuation in environmental decision-making by means of deliberation (deliberative ecological economics). Another line of research uses mixed methods to look at attitudes and narratives about socio-ecological transformations; and a final line of work involves degrowth, where he examines the role of radical democracy and masculinities for degrowth transformations.

Selected relevant publications:

Zografos C., Robbins P. (2020) Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions. One Earth, pp. 543-546.

Andreucci D., Zografos C. (2022) Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio) political ecology of climate change. Political Geography.