Irina Velicu
Biography
Irina Velicu is a Political Scientist working on political ecology, environmental justice and social movements in Europe. She is currently coordinating the FCT funded project EcoGrief: Assessing Intangible Loss in Rural Portugal (2025-2028) and co-coordinating the HORIZON project GREENPATHS:European Knowledge Hub on Just Transition Pathways, (greenpaths.info/). She is also a member of the HORIZON project PHOENIX and an Advisor for FITTER-EU coordinated by Technological University Dublin. She was the Principle Investigator of the JustFood FCT project (2019-2021), expanding her work on socio-environmental justice by focusing on alternative food networks in Portugal and Romania. Dr. Velicu is a member of the RISE and ECOSOC research groups at CES, contributing to work on political ecology. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii (USA) and an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick (UK). Her work has received funding from national and international research organisations (including the EU-FCT, Marie Curie, Chevening Dr. Velicu worked as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher within the ENTITLE European Network of Political Ecology. Her recent publications can be found in Environmental Politics, Theory, Culture and Society, Ecological Economics, Geoforum, New Political Science, Globalizations.
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Latest Publications
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Velicu, Irina; Puiulet, Romana; Iordachescu, George; Erridge, Marcus (2026), "Yellowstone of Europe? Forest Conservation in Romania", Environment&Planning, [Forthcoming]
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Velicu, Irina; Codreanu, Ionut; Triefus, Stephanie; Alexandrescu, Filip; Rusu, Oana; Bunescu, Ioana (2026), "The insidious toxicity of investor-state arbitration Gabriel Resources vs Romania", Globalizations, 1-19
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Raj, Guilherme; Feola, Giuseppe; Velicu, Irina (2026), "'It's a Gender Issue': Women Farmers in Community-Supported Agriculture", Agriculture and Human Values, 66, 2, e70028
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