Flor Avelino
Dr. Flor Avelino works as a fundamental and applied researcher regarding the governance of sustainability transitions. She has published several articles, chapters and reports on these themes, and presented numerous papers at international conferences on policy analysis and/or sustainability governance. Besides academic research, she has worked as a strategic transition advisor for several Dutch governmental organizations and sustainability projects. Furthermore, Flor develops, coordinates and teaches multiple courses on ‘sustainability transitions’, ‘transition management’, ‘power’ and ‘empowerment’ in various forms of higher education (applied, undergraduate, post-graduate, post-academic and professional).
In her PhD-thesis, Flor has specialized in the role of power and empowerment in sustainability governance, with an empirical focus on transition policies in the Netherlands, particularly in the field of mobility and spatial planning. Currently, Flor is researching the role of civil society in developing new forms of governance, looking at concepts such as the ‘social economy’ and ‘self-organization’. She is especially interested in studying how new type of ‘glocal’ communities and transnational networks – e.g. Transition Towns Network, The Hub Network, Global Ecovillage Network – co-evolve with new forms of governance in dealing with contemporary sustainability challenges.
Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Visiting address:
M-building, 5th floor, room M5-25
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3000 DR Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
Postal address:
M5-25
P.O. Box 1738
3062 PA Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
phone:
+31 (0)10-4082105
email:
avelino@drift.eur.nl
Current and recent DRIFT-projects
- Project-leader & principal investigator. Project: “Self-organization of infrastructure by civil society. A comparative analysis of institutional barriers & opportunities in 4 European countries”. 2011 – 2013. Funded by Research Programme Next Generation Infrastructures (NGI)
- Several education activities: applied, undergraduate, post-graduate, post-academic and professional.
- Transitiearena Agniesebuurt Rotterdam Noord
- Researcher and co-author transition study on “Stimulating Sustainability in the City” for the Municipality of the Hague
- Researcher and co-author transition study on “Sustainable Housing Value” (Duurzame Woningwaarde) for Stuurgroep Experimenten Volkshuisvestiging SEV.
- Researcher and co-author study on “Knowledge for Deprived Neighboorhoods” (Kenniswerkplaats Achterstandswijken) for the Municipality of Rotterdam
Selection of recent publications
- Avelino, F. (2012) De Sociale Economie & Alternatieve Vormen van Financiering. Voorbeelden uit de Praktijk. DRIFT ESSAY nr. E 2012.02, Rotterdam: DRIFT
- Zijlstra, T. and Avelino, F. (2012) “A socio-spatial perspective on the car regime”, in: Geels, F., Kemp, R, Dudley, G. and Lyons, G. (eds) Automobility in Transition? A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport, New York: Routledge
- Avelino, F. (2011) Power in Transition: Empowering Discourses on Sustainability Transitions. PhD-Thesis. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Avelino, F. and Rotmans, J. (2011) “A dynamic conceptualization of power for sustainability research”, Journal of Cleaner Production, 19(8):796-804
- Avelino, F. (2009) “Empowerment and the challenge of applying transition management to ongoing projects“, Policy Sciences, 42(4):369-390
- Avelino, F. and Rotmans, J. (2009) “Power in transition. An interdisciplinary framework to study power in relation to structural change“, European Journal of Social Theory, 12(40):543-569