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 MARCO GRASSO
Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies (GEDS)
Birkbeck, University of London,
Tavistock Square, 32 - London WC1H 9EZ – Phone: +44 020 3073 8393
Email: m.grasso@bbk.ac.uk
Website: www.koobook.net
CURRENT POSITION
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography
Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies (GEDS),
Birkbeck, University of London Associate Professor in Political Geography/International Environmental Policy,
Department of Sociology and Social Research, Università degli Studi di MilanoBicocca EXPERTISE
Climate change policy and politics, Political theory of climate change, Climate
ethics, Adaptation to climate change and its funding, Social vulnerability, Human
security, Marine policy
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
King’s College London – London
PhD Geography
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – Barcelona
Postgraduate course: System dynamics and the environment
Università degli Studi di Milano – Milano
Postgraduate Research Programme in Environmental Economics
Università L. Bocconi – Milano
Laurea in Economia e Commercio (BA Hons Economics)
APPOINTMENTS
Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies (GEDS)
Birkbeck, University of London
January 2015 –
: Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography
University of Maryland – School of Public Policy
January – June 2012 (Spring Semester): Visiting Scholar
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Sociology and Social
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Research and Department of Business and Economics
July 2011 – December 2014: Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political
Geography/International Environmental Policy
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Sociology and Social
Research and Department of Business and Economics
January 2008 – June 2011: Senior Lecturer in Public Economics
Free University, Amsterdam - Institute of Environmental Studies
January – June 2007: Visiting Scholar
Macquarie University, Sydney - Graduate School of the Environment
February – July 2004: Visiting Scholar
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Sociology and Social
Research
January 2004 – December 2007: Lecturer in Public Economics
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Sociology and Social
Research
January 1998 – December 2003: Postgraduate Fellow in Public and Environmental
Economics
Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente - Università degli Studi di Milano
January 1995 – December 1997: Postgraduate Fellow in Environmental Economics
and Policy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Single authored books
2010
Grasso, M. ‘Justice in funding adaptation under the international climate change
regime’, Springer, Dordrecht. ISBN 978-90-481-3438-0
Articles in refereed journals
2014
Grasso, M. and Markowitz, E. M. ‘The moral complexity of climate change and the
need for a multidisciplinary perspective on climate ethics’, forthcoming in Climatic
Change
Grasso, M. and Sacchi, S. ‘Impure procedural justice in climate governance
systems’, forthcoming in Environmental Values
Grasso, M., Moneo, M. and Arena, M. ‘Assessing social vulnerability to climate
change in Samoa’, Regional Environmental Change,14, 1329-1341
Grasso, M. and Roberts, J.T. ‘A compromise to break the climate impasse’, Nature
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Climate Change, 4, 543-549
Sacchi, S., Riva, P., Brambilla, M. and Grasso M. ‘Moral reasoning and climate
change mitigation: The deontological reaction toward the market-based approach’,
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 38, 252-261
2013
Grasso, M. ‘Climate ethics: with a little help from moral cognitive neuroscience’,
Environmental Politics, 22(3), 377-394
2012
Grasso, M. ‘Sharing the emission budget’, Political Studies, 60, 668-686
Grasso, M. and Feola, G., ‘Mediterranean agriculture under climate change:
adaptive capacity, adaptation, and ethics’, Regional Environmental Change, 12,
607-618
2011
Grasso, M. ‘The role of justice in the North-South conflict in climate change: the
case of negotiations on the Adaptation Fund’, International Environmental
Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 11, 361-377
2010
Grasso, M. ‘An ethical approach to climate adaptation finance’, Global
Environmental Change, 20, 74–81
2008
Grasso, M. and Canova, L. ‘An assessment of the quality of life in the European
Union’, Social Indicators Research, 87, 1-25
2007
Grasso, M. ‘A normative ethical framework in climate change’, Climatic Change,
81, 223-246
2006
Grasso, M. ‘An ethics-based climate agreement in the South Pacific region’,
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 6, 249-270
Articles under review
Markowitz, E. M., Grasso, M. and Jamieson, D. ‘Climate ethics at a
multidisciplinary crossroads: Five directions for future scholarship’
Grasso, M. ‘A consequentialist scheme for reducing carbon emissions and fighting
poverty’
Grasso, M. ‘Consumption-based accounting, proportional historical responsibility
and the international politics of emissions reductions in the great powers’
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Edited journals
2015
Climatic Change. Special Issue: Multidisciplinary perspective on climate ethics.
Guest Editor, with Ezra M. Markowitz (forthcoming, 2015)
Edited books
2013
Redclift, M.R. and Grasso, M. ‘Handbook on climate change and human security’,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, ISBN 978 0 85793 910 4
Book chapters
2014
Grasso, M. ‘Climate change and sustainable development’, in M.R. Redclift and D.
Springett (Eds.), Handbook of sustainable development, forthcoming, Routledge,
Oxford
2013
Redclift, M.R. and Grasso, M. ‘Introduction: human security in the age of carbon’, in
M.R. Redclift and M. Grasso (Eds.), Handbook on climate change and human
security’, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1-17
Grasso, M. and Feola, G. ‘Human security and climate change in the
Mediterranean region’, in M.R. Redclift and M. Grasso (Eds.), Handbook on climate
change and human security’, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 254-280
2004
Grasso, M. ‘The capability approach and sustainable development’, in E.M. Tacchi
(Ed.), Sustainability, Development and Environmental Risk, London, Foxwell and
Davies, 77-96
Book reviews
2013
Grasso, M. ‘F. Soltau: Fairness in international climate change law and policy’,
Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1/2013, 80-81
2009
Grasso, M. ‘S. Vanderheiden: Atmospheric justice. A Political theory of climate
change’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 4, 508-509 [longer review]
Grasso, M. ‘W. N. Adger, J. Paavola, S. Huq e M. J. Mace: Fairness in adaptation
to climate change’, Political Studies Review, 7, 268
Grasso, M., ‘S. Vanderheiden: Atmospheric justice. A Political theory of climate
change’, Political Studies Review, 7, 109-110
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2008
Grasso, M. ‘J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks: A Climate of injustice.
Global inequality, North-South Politics, and climate policy’, Carbon and Climate
Law Review, 1, 225-227
Grasso, M. ‘Edward A. Page: Climate change, justice and future generations’,
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 8, 183-186
2006
Grasso, M. ‘Frank Biermann and Steffen Bauer (eds): A world environmental
organization: solutions or threat for effective international environmental
governance’, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and
Economics, 7, 205-207
Policy briefs and published working papers
2013
Grasso, M. and Roberts, J.T. ‘A Fair Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse. A
Major Economies Forum (MEF) Approach to Emissions Reductions Budgeting’
The Brookings Institution – Global Economy and Development program: Global
Views Policy Paper, April 2013
2011
Grasso, M. ‘Consequentialist climate ethics’, London School of Economics,
SustainableRio Project – LSE ‘Distributive Justice and Sustainability Workshop’
Working Paper
Grasso, M. ‘The ethics of climate change: with a little help from moral cognitive
neuroscience’
CISEPS Research Paper No. 7-2011
Grasso, M. and Sacchi, S. ‘Procedural justice in climate change negotiations’
CISEPS Research Paper No. 6-2011
Works in progress
Grasso, M. ‘The political feasibility of consumption-based carbon accounting’
(article, presented at the 2014 Norwich Conference on Earth system Governance,
1-3 July 2014)
Grasso, M. ‘A regional governance system for adaptation to climate change in the
Mediterranean region’ (article)
Grasso, M. ‘Political legitimacy of institutions for managing global commons: the
case of the deep seabed’ (article)
Single authored books in Italian
2001
Grasso, M. ‘Analisi economica e ambiente’, Angeli, Milano. ISBN 88-464-3364-5
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Co-authored books in Italian
2004
Grillo F. and Grasso, M. ‘La macchina che cambiò il mondo’, Fazi Editore, Roma.
ISBN 88-8112-485-8
Articles in Italian refereed journals
2010
Grasso, M. ‘Economia e consumo: alla ricerca di un equilibrio con l’ambiente’,
Consumatori, Diritti e Mercato, 2, 7-16
2007
Grasso, M. and Pareglio, S. ‘Ranking well-being in the European Union’, Rivista
Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2, 242-263
Chiappero Martinetti, E., Grasso, M. and Pareglio, S. ‘La qualità della vita nelle
società avanzate: linee di ricerca per un modello basato sull’approccio delle
capacità di Amartya Sen’, Economia e Politica Industriale, 1, 49-69
2006
Grasso, M. and Pareglio, S. ‘Freedoms, institutions and sustainable human
development in Sen’s capability approach’, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze
Sociali, 3, 29-44
2002
Grasso, M. and Pareglio, S. ‘La valutazione economica dei beni ambientali nella
costruzione delle politiche europee’, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 3,
383-413
Grasso, M. ‘Una misurazione del benessere economico e sociale nelle regioni
italiane’, Politica Economica, 2, 261-292
Book chapters in Italian
2012
Grasso, M. 'Implicazioni dell'approccio del budget delle emissioni per le politiche
internazionali contro i cambiamenti climatici', in Dini, F e Randelli, F. (Eds.), In:
Oltre la globalizzazione: le proposte della geografia economica, Firenze, Firenze
University Press (FUP), 391-402
2011
Grasso, M. ‘Questioni ambientali globali e dinamiche Nord-Sud’, in G. Lizza (Ed.),
Geopolitica delle prossime sfide, UTET, Torino, 225-240
2009
Grasso, M. ‘Qualità della vita e agricoltura: oltre il PIL’, in M. Ferretto (Ed.), Per
un'altra campagna: riflessioni e proposte sull'agricoltura Milanese, Maggioli,
Milano, 65-68
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Canova, L., Grasso, M. and Pareglio, S. ‘Qualità della vita, sviluppo umano
sostenibile e modellizzazione dinamica’, in E. Chiappero Martinetti and S. Pareglio.
Sviluppo umano sostenibile e qualità della vita, Carocci, Roma, 71-85
2008
Grasso, M. ‘Un conflitto ambientale globale: Nord e Sud nei cambiamenti climatici’,
in G. Grossi (ed.), I conflitti contemporanei. Contrasti, scontri e confronti nelle
società del III millennio, UTET, Torino, 127-144
2005
Grasso, M. and Nuvolati, G. ‘Ambiente, identità e qualità della vita nell’area della
Bicocca e nel Nord Milano: il caso della Gronda Nord’, in E. dell’Agnese (Ed.), La
Bicocca e il suo territorio, Skira, Milano, 208-229
2001
Grasso, M. ‘La crescita della disuguaglianza nella distribuzione del reddito –
Risparmio: dai titoli di Stato ai nuovi strumenti finanziari – I trasferimenti finanziari
all’interno del nucleo familiare – Indebolimento del nesso tra posizione di classe e
modelli di consumo’, in D. Benassi, E. Mingione (eds), Observatoire prospectif des
marchés européens. Evolutions sociales, modes de vie, consommations,
distribution, Paris, 55-66
1999
Ballarin Denti, A., Pareglio, S. e Grasso, M. ‘Aspetti biologici ed economici nel
rapporto tra inquinamento e ambienti agro-forestali’, in R. Cellerino (Ed.), Atti della
IV Riunione degli Economisti Ambientali, Angeli, Milano, 13-30
Book reviews
2015
Grasso, M. ‘C. Madau: Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta. Teorie e politiche della
questione ambientale’, forthcoming, Rivista Geografica Italiana
EDITORIAL BOARDS AND SCIENTIFIC ROLES
Editorial Board Member, AIMS Environmental Science, 2013
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in
Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences (CISEPS), University of MilanBicocca, 2014
REVIEWER
Journals
Ambio, British Journal of Political Sciences, Climate Policy, Climate and
Development, Climatic Change, Energy Studies Review, Environment and
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Planning A, Environmental Values, Ethics and International Affairs, European
Journal of International Relations, Global Environmental Change, Global
Environmental Politics, Journal of Cost-Benefit Analysis, International Journal of
Climate Change Strategies and Management, International Review of Economics,
Journal of Environmental Management, Natural Resources Forum, Philosophy and
Public Issues, Regional Environmental Change, Review of European Comparative
& International Environmental Law, SpringerPlus, Sustainability, Weather Climate
and Society
Books
Edward Elgar Publishing, International Studies Association Compendium Project,
Springer
Research grants
British Academy (UK), Climate Policy Research Program CLIPORE (financed by
MISTRA, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research), Leverhulme
Trust, Visiting Professorship (UK), Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO), Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (CNCS),
Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca (Italy) – Futuro in Ricerca
2013, Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca (Italy) 2014
International organizations
Expert Reviewer for the WGIII contribution to the International Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
RESEARCH GRANTS
2013-2017
FP7 Collaborative Project (Environment, including climate change: ENV.2013.6.13): IMPRESSIONS - Impacts and risks from higher-end scenarios: strategies for
innovative solutions
Partner, unit UNIMIB (PI: Paula A. Harrison, University of Oxford), Role:
responsible unit UNIMIB – Climate Change Governance
2013
CISEPS (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social
Sciences), Università Milano-Bicocca for organization of the Workshop
‘Multidisciplinary perspectives on climate ethics’
Chamber of Commerce of Como for organization of the Workshop ‘Multidisciplinary
perspectives on climate ethics’
2011-2013
‘Economics, psychology, philosophy, and moral decision-making on climate
change’’ – CISEPS (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology
and Social Sciences), Università Milano-Bicocca (Principal Investigator)
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2007-2008
‘Economic analysis of 20-20-20: The economic impact of renewables in Italy’ –
Italian Ministry of the Environment, Centro Europa Ricerche – Roma (Principal
Investigator)
2005-2007
‘Modelling sustainability according to Sen’s capability approach’ – Fondazione
Lombardia per l’Ambiente
2004-2006
‘Adaptation of the agricultural system of Lombardia to climate change’ – Italian
Ministry of the Environment, Regione Lombardia, Fondazione Lombardia per
l’Ambiente (part of a larger project on ‘Impacts of climate change in Lombardia’)
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES
26 November 2014: Università Milano-Bicocca, Workshop: Small Island
Developing States: dinamiche globali e processi locali. Lecture ‘The SIDS and
climate change: Vulnerability and negotiation strategy in Samoa and the Pacific
Islands’
9 April 2014: Università Milano-Bicocca, CLiMiB Research Center, Lecture ‘Climate
change: Impacts, adaptation, vulnerability’
3 October 2013: Fondazione Enrico Mattei Milano (FEEM), Seminar: ‘A
compromise to break the climate impasse’
11 September 2013: Roundtable organized by the German Federal Foreign Office
(Auswärtiger Amt) and Adelphi on the Brookings Institution Policy Paper ‘A Fair
Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse. A Major Economies Forum (MEF)
Approach to Emissions Reductions Budgeting’
22 May 2013: Università Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social
Research, Seminar Series: Lecture: ‘A fair compromise to break the climate
impasse’
17 September 2012: University of Uppsala – 6th Uppsala Forum Workshop on
Global Climate Change: ‘Fair Adaptation to Dangerous Climate Change’, Lecture:
‘The ethics of adaptation to climate change: the case of agriculture in the
Mediterranean region’
13 March 2012: University of Maryland – Hultman Research Group, Lecture:
‘Sharing the carbon budget’
15 February 2012: University of Maryland – Program for Society and the
Environment, Lecture: ‘Justification and development of a consequentialist
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approach to climate ethics’
11 November 2011: London School of Economics and Political Sciences –
Seminar ‘Distributive justice and Sustainability’, EC Framework Programme 7:
SustainableRIO (Free University of Berlin, LSE, Sciences Po), London, Lecture:
‘Consequentialist climate ethics’
10 November 2010: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca – Convegno
‘Rappresentazioni politiche dell’Europa Unita’, Milano, Lecture: ‘The EU role in
international climate politics’
28 April 2009: Italian Environmental Ministry, Rome, Lecture: ‘Climate Adaptation
Finance’
5 December 2008: Italian Environmental Ministry, Rome, Lecture: ‘The economic
impact of renewables in Italy’
12 July 2007: IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori) e FLA (Fondazione
Lombardia per l’Ambiente) – IQUAL Workshop, Pavia, Lecture: ‘Well-being
assessment and policy simulations: toward a micro-macro and dynamic integrated
view based on the capability approach’
14 February 2007: Italian Environmental Ministry – Kyoto Day, Lecture Rome: ‘The
economics of climate change: some aspects of mitigation and adaptation’
2 December 2006: ICEI (Institute for Economic International Cooperation) –
Seminar series ‘Climate and international development’, Milan, Lecture: ‘The
economic dimension of adaptation to climate change’
19 January 2004: UNPD Romania – Workshop ‘Monitoring and Evaluating
Progress towards Development Goals’, Bucharest, Lecture: ‘Sustainable human
development and development goals’
ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOP
Organization (with Cesare Corselli, Barbare Delmonte, Marina Camatini –
University of Milan-Bicocca) of the ‘Climate Week’, Università Milano-Bicocca, 7-11
April 2014 (http://climatechange.conismamibi.it/)
Organization (with Ezra M. Markowitz – Princeton University) of the Workshop
‘Multidisciplinary perspectives on climate ethics’, Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy),
26-27 September 2013 (http://dipeco.economia.unimib.it/ciseps/ceworkshop/)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Thesis supervision
Post-Doc supervision
Two supervisions on international regime-making in adaptation to climate change
in the Mediterranean region and on social and economic analysis of governance
systems for high-end climate scenarios
PhD supervision
Four supervisions in the areas of international environmental policy and politics and
climate change policy and politics.
External examiner (2014): Ekaterina Vladimirova, Università LUISS and Université
Libre de Bruxelles
Graduate level
Theses on climate change, international and national environmental policy and
politics, international political economy, sustainable development (over 10 theses in
8 years)
Undergraduate level
Theses on climate change, international and national environmental policy and
politics, sustainable development, (over 30 theses in 10 years)
Courses
2014-2015
Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies (GEDS),
Birkbeck, University of London – MSc Climate Change Management curse:
‘Environment and Policy’
2014-2015
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology – Graduate level
course: ‘Development Geography’
2012Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology – Graduate level
course: ‘Environmental Policy and Politics’ (in English)
2012-2013
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology – Graduate level
course: Political Geography
2010Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics – Graduate
level course: ‘Environmental Economics and Policy’ (eLearning mode since 2014)
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology – Undergraduate
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level course: ‘Environmental Policy’
2009-2011
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Faculty of Sociology – Undergraduate
level course: ‘Economics’
2006-2011
Università degli Studi di Torino, Faculty of Political Sciences – Graduate level
course: ‘Sustainable Human Development’ (in English)
2006-2007
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Faculty of Sociology – Graduate level
course: ‘Political and Economic Geography’
2002 to date
Consorzio Nettuno Laurea a distanza (Distance Learning) (2002) – Undergraduate
level course: ‘Environmental Economics and Policy (video-lectures)
1995-2006
Courses in ‘Public economics’, Economics of the arts’, ‘Microeconomics’,
Macroeconomics, ‘Environmental Economics’, ‘Environmental Policy’, ‘Sustainable
Development’
Seminars in ‘Environmental Economics and Policy’, ‘Agricultural Economics and
Policy’
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES
2015
Director, MSc Climate Change Management, Department of Geography,
Environment and Development Studies (GEDS), Birkbeck, University of London
2014
Member of the Board of the Committee of the PhDs URBEUR and QUA-SI,
Department of Sociology and Social Research, Università degli Studi di MilanoBicocca
President of the Post-Doctoral Fellowships Selection Committee of the Department
of Sociology and Social Research, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
2012-2014
Director, MA ‘Sustainable tourism’, Department of Sociology and Social Research,
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
2010-2014
Member of the Board of the Committee of the PhD in Economics, Faculty of
Economics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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2013
Member of the Post-Doctoral Fellowships Selection Committee of the Department
of Sociology and Social Research, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
2006-2010
Member of the Board of the Teaching Commissions of the Department of Sociology
and Social Research of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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