LSE Fellow
Department of International Development (ID)
Biography
Monica Di Gregorio joined LSE as a PhD student in 2004 and became a staff member in 2007. Before joining LSE she worked for several years at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC. She is a specialist in institutions for natural resource management. She has written on common property regimes, institutions of property rights and collective action, and decentralization in NRM. She is currently completing her PhD at ID and holds a MSc in Economics of the Asia Pacific Regions from the School of African and Oriental Studies. She has 2 years of work and research experience in Indonesia.
Research interests and areas of supervision
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Institutions for Natural Resource Management (NRM)
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Environment and Development
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Democracy and decentralization in NRM
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Environmental Social Movements
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Asia-Pacific region, in particular Southeast Asia
Selected recent publications
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Eyzaguirre, P., M. Di Gregorio and Meinzen-Dick R. S. eds. 2007. Property Rights, Collective Action, and Local Conservation of Genetic Resources". World Development, special issue Vol. 35(9).
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McCarthy, N. and M. Di Gregorio. 2007. Climate variability and flexibility in resource access: the case of pastoral mobility in Northern Kenya. Environment and Development Economics. Vol. 12(3): 403-421.
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Monica Di Gregorio. 2006. The Influence of Civil Society Organizations on Forest Tenure Policies in Indonesia: Networks, strategies and outcomes. Paper presented at the 11th Biannual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bali.
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Meinzen-Dick, R. S., M. Di Gregorio, and N. McCarthy eds. 2004. Methods for studying collective action in rural development. Agricultural Systems, special issue 82 (3).
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