Dr. Julia Szulecka
PhD-Thesis: Changing Paradigms in a Changing Climate: Analyzing the Political Economy of Tropical Forest Plantations
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pretzsch, TUD
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Laura Secco, University of Padova
May 2018, current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway
CURRICULUM VITAE
Work Experience
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2010 -2015 |
Researcher at the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, TU Dresden, and at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (LEAF), University of Padova. |
| 2012 |
Guest researcher at the Center for International Forestry (CIFOR) and at Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Bogor, Indonesia. |
| 2011 - 2012 |
Visiting scholar at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), Paraguay. |
| 2010 - present |
Head of the Foundation Council, Environmental Studies and Policy Research Institute (ESPRi), Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2009 - 2010 |
Research project and internship at the Lake Constance Foundation (Bodensee-Stiftung), Radolfzell, Germany. Research project on Transnational Water Governance under the scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Fund (DBU) |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Internship at the Bund für Natur und Umweltschutz (BUND), Konstanz, Germany. |
Education
| 2010 - 2015 |
Ph.D. student at the TU Dresden and University of Padova under the FONASO programme. |
| 2007 - 2008 |
M.Sc. (cum laude) in Political Science (Transnational Environmental Governance) at the VU University Amsterdam. Huygens Scholarship recipient. |
| 2006 - 2007 |
Studies in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Oslo (Erasmus). |
| 2004 - 2007 |
B.A. in German Studies as well as International Relations at the Wroclaw University, Poland. Polish Ministry of Science award. |
Publications:
- Szulecka, J.; Pretzsch, J. and L. Secco (2013) “Paradigms in tropical forest plantations: a critical reflection on historical shifts in plantation approaches”, International Forestry Review, Vol. 15, Issue 4, in press.
- Szulecka, J. and K. Szulecki (2013) “Analysing the Rospuda River Controversy in Poland: Rhetoric, Environmental Activism and EU’s Influence”, East European Politics, Vol. 29, Issue 4, in press.
- Szulecka, J. and L. Secco (2013) “Local institutions, social capital and their role in timber plantation governance: Lessons from a comparative case-study of smallholder plantations in Paraguay”, paper presented at the 3rd International Congress on Planted Forests, 16-21 May 2013, Porto.
- Szulecka, J.; Monges Zalazar E. and J. Pretzsch (2012) “Making Social Forestry Work: a Comparative Study of Smallholder Reforestation Projects in Paraguay”, paper presented at the Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development “Tropentag 2012”, September 19-21, 2012, University of Göttingen and University of Kassel-Witzenhausen.
- Szulecka, J. (2011) “Historical Paradigm Shifts in Tropical Forest Plantations”, paper presented at the Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development “Tropentag 2011”, 5-7 October 2011, University of Bonn.
- Szulecka, J. (2011) “Changing Paradigms in a Changing Climate: a Shift in the Political Economy of Forest Plantations?”, paper presented at the 6th ECPR General Conference, 25-27 August 2011, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
- Szulecka, J. and K. Szulecki (2011) “Environmental Peacebuilding: Transnarodowe działania na rzecz ochrony środowiska jako platforma zaawansowanego zapobiegania konfliktom na Bliskim Wschodzie”, in: Kostecki, Wojciech (ed.) Zaawansowane zapobieganie konfliktom, Warszawa: SWPS.
- Szulecka, J. (2010) “Effective water governance, the case of Lake Constance as a model”, research report for the DBU.
- Ziemińska, J. and K. Szulecki (2010) “The River that Divided a Nation: Rhetoric, Environmental Activism and the Political Controversy Over the Rospuda River Valley in Poland”, ESPRi Working Paper No. 1, April 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1680789
- Ziemińska, J. (2010) “Bujać to nas, ale nie las”, Kultura Liberalna, 79 (29), 13. 7. 2010.
- Ziemińska, J. (2010) “GNF Proposals. Jordan River Rehabilitation Project – Sector Agriculture and Domestic Use”, GNF Report 2010, supported by the Stiftung Ursula Merz, coordinated by Global Nature Fund (GNF) Germany in collaboration with Friends of the Earth – Middle East (FOEME).
- Ziemińska, J. (2009) “Konwencja (nie)cierpiąca zwłoki”, Polityka Globalna, 27.04.2009.