2025
Delina, L., Lei Shi, Wiwik Dharmiasih, Albert Salamanca, and Kim-Pong Tam. 2025. Heritage governance in Bali and Ifugao ricescapes: Probing the dynamic intermediary roles of Indigenous leadership, Policy & Society (94)
Delina, L. 2025. What’s holding us back? Unpacking perceived barriers to renewable energy transition in vulnerable communities, Energy Research & Social Science 127:104314, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104314 (93)
Ivee Fuerzas, Delina, L. and Kim-Pong Tam. 2025. “Crisis in the Cup:” Unveiling the hazards and vulnerabilities of the Philippine coffee supply amidst emerging risks, Sustainable Development https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70172 (92)
Johanne Rei Castro and Delina, L. 2025. Leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) for effective extreme heat adaptation and risk management in urban Asia, Urban Climate 62:102556, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102556 (91)
Delina, L., Sanny Afable, and Chloe Chan. 2025. Place-based barriers to energy transition in vulnerable Philippine communities, World Development Perspectives 39:100712, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100712 (90)
Ellice Dane Ancheta, Maria Obiminda Cambaliza and Delina, L. 2025. Towards net zero and a zero-landfill future: Leveraging Hong Kong’s municipal solid waste charging scheme for sustainable waste management and carbon neutrality, Journal of Sustainability 1(2), https://doi.org/10.55845/jos-2025-128 (89)
Delina, L., Sanny Afable, Ivee Fuerzas, Kim-Pong Tam, Wiwik Dharmiasih and Albert Salamanca. 2025. Rice, resilience, and relationships: Unpacking the intangible sources of resilience in Southeast Asian heritage ricescapes, World Development 195:10711, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107111 (88)
Stefan Bouzarovski, Karla Cedano-Villavicencio, Delina, L., Mari Martiskainen, Tony G Reames and Neil Simcock. 2025. Framing ‘energy poverty’: why language matters, Nature Energy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01794-w (87)
Eireka Orlindo Meregillano and Delina, L. 2025. Powering through the storm: Assessing the resilience of electricity sociotechnical systems in typhoon-impacted coastal communities, Energy Research & Social Science 126:104172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104172 (86)
Jifei Chen, Xiaoming Shi and Delina, L. 2025. Cold spells and mental well-being: The influence of cold spells on older adults in Jinan, China, Cities and Health, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2025.2513781 (85)
Caleb Kan and Delina, L. 2025. Unlocking the power of blockchain in transforming voluntary carbon markets for a greener and more transparent energy transition, Energy Research & Social Science, 126:10144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104177 (84)
Delina, L. and Lei Shi. 2025. Sustainable mobility transitions in developmental states: Comparing Southeast Asia’s electric mobility policies and ambitions, Sustainable Futures 9:100751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100751 (83)
Chloe Chan and Delina, L. 2025. Shadows of energy insecurity: Unmasking the lived experiences of intersectional vulnerabilities in Hong Kong’s urban landscape, Energy Research & Social Science, 126:104150, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104150 (82)
Johanne Rei Castro and Delina, L. 2025. Integrated policy and AI-assisted technologies to address extreme heat and enhance urban resilience, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-025-01018-3 (81)
Delina, L., Sanny Afable, Ivee Fuerzas, Kim-Pong Tam, Wiwik Dharmiasih and Albert Salamanca. 2025. Roots of resilience: Unveiling social networks in Indigenous Indonesian and Philippine rice farming, Climate Risk Management 48:100711, https://doi.org10.1016/j.crm.2025.100711 (80)
Delina, L., Ivee Fuerzas, Michelle Jaymalin Dulay, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Kim-Pong Tam and Albert Salamanca. 2025. Affective relationships as nonmaterial capital assets within the rice-terraced cultural landscapes of the Philippine Cordillera, Applied Geography 179:103631, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103631 (79)
Johanne Rei Castro and Delina, L. 2025. Extreme heat in focus: comparing media narratives from the Philippines and Hong Kong, Environmental Research Communications 7:045019, https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adc87b (78)
Hongwei Yu, Wenjin Chen, Xinyi Wang, Delina, L., Zhiming Cheng and Le Zhang. 2025. The impact of the Energy Conservation Law on enterprise energy efficiency: Quasi-experimental evidence from Chinese firms, Energy Economics 143:108252 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108252 (77)
Jifei Chen, Xiaoming Shi, Yongying Shi and Delina, L. 2025. Assessing heat vulnerability risk of Jinan and Guangzhou’s older populations based on multisource remote sensing data, Building and Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.112622 (76)
Delina, L., Lei Shi, Jon Gaviola and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam. 2025. Balancing immediate relief and resilience: Centring local voices for disaster aid and capacity building in climate-conflict vulnerable communities, Sustainable Development, https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3359 (75)
Jifei Chen and Delina, L. 2025. Understanding the impacts of extreme heat on the mental wellbeing of older adults: A systematic review, Environmental Research Communications https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ada735 (74)
Rainbow Yi Hung Lam and Delina, L. 2025. Financing structural and non-structural extreme heat adaptation measures in Southeast Asian cities: Statuses and prospects, Environmental Research Communications 6:125029. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad9f10 (73)
2024
Delina, L., Jon Gaviola, Homer Pagkalinawan and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam. 2024. Towards a peace-positive climate adaptation in conflict-fragile Philippine Bangsamoro, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development https://doi.org/10.1177/15423166241304234 (72)
Sharon Feliza Ann Macagba and Delina, L. 2024. The state and future of extreme heat studies in Southeast Asian megacities: Risks, impacts, and adaptation strategies in a warming world, Environmental Research Communications 6:112003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad9145 (71)
Delina, L., Jon Gaviola, and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam. 2024. Climate and security risks and their implications for sustainable livelihoods: The case of Maguindanao in conflict-ridden Philippine Bangsamoro, World Development Perspectives 36:100642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100642 (70)
Delina, L. and Yuet Sang Marie Tung. 2024. Towards a just AI-assisted energy transitions for vulnerable communities, Energy Research & Social Science 118:103752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103752(69)
Homer Pagkalinawan, Delina, L. and Sharon Feliza Ann Macagba. 2024. Gridded dataset on land surface temperature and selected environmental and economic features in Southeast Asian metropolises, Data in Brief 56:110848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110848(68)
Delina, L., Jon Gaviola, Homer Pagkalinawan and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam. 2024.Towards a peace-positive climate adaptation in conflict-fragile Philippine Bangsamoro, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, https://doi.org/10.1177/15423166241304234 (67)
Boedijanto, Felice Janice Olivia and Delina, L. (2024).Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector. Energy Research & Social Science, 115:103638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103638 (66)
Delina, L., Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Akihisa Mori and Timothy Joseph Henares. (2024). From currents to controversies: Unveiling performances of and perceptions in China’s investments in the Philippine grid. Energy Strategy Reviews, 53:101407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2024.101407 (65)
Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Delina, L. and Olivia Anne Perez. 2024. Food choice determinants and changes in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 36: Issue 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/10105395241237644(64)
Michael Castro, Delina, L., and Joey Ocon. 2024. Transition pathways to 100% renewable energy in 208 mini-grids in the Philippines. Energy Strategy Reviews, 52:101315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2024.101315 (63)
Delina, L., Ivee Fuerzas, Wiwik Dharmiasih, Michelle Jaymalin Dulay and Albert Salamanca. 2024. Are capital assets under pressure? The state of and challenges to indigenous rice farming in the cultural ricescapes of Indonesia and the Philippines. Journal of Rural Studies 106:103235 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103235 (62)
Olivia Anne Perez, Delina, L., and Benjamin Steuer. 2024. Behavioural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for Sustainable Development Goals in Hong Kong. Cities & Health 8(2):226-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2303566 (61)
Delina, L., Jon Gaviola and Homer Pagkalinawan. 2024. Unveiling the climate-conflict nexus: Examining the influence of weather extremes on conflict emergence in the Philippine Bangsamoro. Environment and Security https://doi.org/10.1177/27538796241226780 (60)
Delina, L., Chloe Chan and Timothy Joseph Henares. 2024. A dataset on two decades of Japan’s energy investments in Southeast Asian countries. Data in Brief, 52:109818. https://doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109818 (59)
2023
Eireka O. Meregillano and Delina, L. 2023. Stronger typhoons, weaker electricity systems? A review of the impacts of extreme weather events on coastal communities and strategies for electric system resilience. The Electricity Journal, 36:107339. https://doi:10.1016/j.tej.2023.107339 (58)
Delina, L., Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice, Jon Gaviola and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam. 2023. Living with climate and state fragility in a “chaotic paradise:” securitizing livelihoods in the Philippines’ Cotabato River Basin. Climate Risk Management, 42, 100558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100558 (57)
Michael T. Castro, Delina, L., Eugene Esparcia Jr. and Joey Ocon. 2023. Storm hardening and insuring energy systems in typhoon-prone regions: A techno-economic analysis of hybrid renewable energy systems in the Philippines’ Busuanga island cluster. Energy Strategy Reviews, 50, 101188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2023.101188 (56)
Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice and Delina, L. 2023. From concessions to competition: A journey through the evolution of the Philippine electric grid system, 1892–2021. The Electricity Journal, 36(7), 107319. doi:10.1016/j.tej.2023.107319 (55)
Xinyi Wang, Delina, L., and Kira Matus. 2023. Living with energy poverty: Uncovering older people’s fuel choices in urban China. Energy Research & Social Science 104:103247 doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.z (54)
Delina, L., Olivia Perez, Sanny Afable, and Benjamin Steuer. 2023. Do global public health crises change people’s behaviors towards sustainability? Evidence of the COVID-19 and sustainability nexus from Hong Kong. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 100132. doi:10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100132 (53)
Chloe Chan and Delina, L. 2023. Energy poverty and beyond: The state, contexts, and trajectories of energy poverty studies in Asia. Energy Research & Social Science 102:103168 doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.103168 (52)
Delina, L., Rainbow Yi Hung Lam, Wing Shun Tang, and Ka Ying Wong. 2023. Mapping the actor landscape of a future fintech-funded renewable energy ecosystem in Hong Kong. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 13:419-427 doi:10.1007/s13412-023-00839-4 (51)
Delina, L. 2023. Fintech RE in a global finance centre: Expert perceptions of the benefits of and challenges to digital financing of distributed and decentralised renewables in Hong Kong. Energy Research & Social Science 97:102977 doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.102977 (50)
2022
Delina, L.., Rainbow Yi Hung Lam, Wing Shun Tang, and Ka Ying Wong. 2022. Hong Kong’s “future” energy transition-digitalization-financialization triangle: Actors and impacts. Science Talks 4:100082 doi:10.1016/j.sctalk.2022.100082 (49)
Ginbert P. Cuaton, and Delina, L. 2022. Two decades of rice research in Indonesia and the Philippines: A systematic review and research agenda for the social sciences. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9:372 doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01394-z (48)
Timothy Joseph G. Henares, and Delina, L. 2022. Beyond the narratives of trade and domination: How ecology, connectivity, and history shape Chinese investments in foreign electricity grids. Energy Research & Social Science 93:102823 doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102823 (47)
Michael T. Castro, Jethro Daniel A. Pascasio, Delina, L., Paul Heherson M. Balite, and Joey D. Ocon. 2022. Techno-economic and financial analyses of hybrid renewable energy system microgrids in 634 Philippine off-grid islands: Policy implications on public subsidies and private investments. Energy 257:124599 doi:10.1016/j.energy.2022.124599 (46)
Benjamin K. Sovacool, John Axsen, Delina, L., Hilary Schaffer Boudet, Varun Rai, Roman Sidortsov, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Kirstin E.H. Jenkins, and Ray Galvin. 2022. Towards codes of practice for navigating academic peer review process. Energy Research & Social Science 89:102657 doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102675 (45)
Delina, L. 2022. Harnessing Hong Kong’s wind power: Generation potential, deployment plans, and ecological implications. The Electricity Journal 35:107139 doi:10.1016/j.tej.2022.107139 (44)
Delina, L. 2022. Moving people from the balcony to the trenches: Time to adopt “climatage” in climate activism? Energy Research & Social Science 90:102586 doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102586 (43)
Delina, L. 2022. Coal development and its discontents: Modes, strategies, and tactics of a localized, yet networked, anti-coal mobilization in central Philippines. The Extractive Industries and Society 9:101043 doi:10.1016/j.exis.2022.101043 (42)
Delina, L. 2022. Co-producing just energy transition in rural communities: Sociotechnical innovation and sustainable development in the Thailand-Myanmar border. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 27(1):16-31 doi:10.1080/13549839.2021.1997964 (41)
2021
Kristiana Santos and Delina, L. 2021. Soaring sustainably: Promoting the uptake of sustainable aviation fuels during and post-pandemic. Energy Research & Social Science 77:102074 doi:10.1016/j.esr.2021.102074 (40).
Delina, L., Josephine Dionisio, Jergil Gyle Gavieres, and Joey Ocon. 2021. Challenges and policy options for harnessing renewable energy-based social networks for renewable energy electrification of small off-grid islands. Philippine Journal of Public Policy vol. 2021. (39).
Delina, L. 2021. Participation in non-democracies: Rural Thailand as a site of energy democracy. In Andrea Feldpaush-Parker, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Danielle Endres (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy, New York: Routledge. 270-279. (38)
Delina, L. 2021. Promises and pitfalls of China-Southeast Asia energy connectivity, Energy Strategy Reviews, 33:100574. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2020.100574 (37)
Delina, L. 2021. Topographies of coal mining dissent: Power, politics and protests in southern Philippines, World Development, 137:105194. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105194 (36)
Delina, L. 2021. Potentials and critiques of building a Southeast Asian interdisciplinary knowledge community on critical geoengineering studies, Climatic Change, 163(2): 973-987. doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02921-0 (35)
Delina, L. 2021. Mobilising in a climate shock: Geoengineering or accelerated energy transitions? In J.P. Sapinski, Holly Jean Buck, and Andreas Malm (Eds.), Has It Come To This? Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink, Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. 121-129. (34)
2020
Delina, L. 2020. Government leadership and social mobilisation for crises planning: From wartime mobilisation to pandemic response to climate action, Academia Letters, Article 22. doi:10.20935/AL22 (33)
Delina, L. 2020. Book Review of Southeast Asian Energy Transitions: Between modernity and sustainability By Mattijs Smits, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies,51(3), 488-489. doi:10.1017/S0022463420000557 (32)
Delina, L., Joey Ocon, and Eugene Esparcia Jr. 2020. What makes energy systems in climate-vulnerable islands resilient? Insights from the Philippines and Thailand. Energy Research & Social Science 69: 101703. doi: 10.110.1016/j.erss.2020.101703 (31)
Delina, L. 2020. Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape. Energy Research & Social Science 65: 101463. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101463 (30)
Delina, L. 2020. A rural energy collaboratory: co-production in Thailand’s community energy experiments. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 10: 83-90. doi: 10.1007/s13412-019-00572-x (29)
2019
Delina, L. 2019. ICTs for delivering climate-development strategies: an informational governance framework for local climate-development organizations. Climate and Development, doi: 10.1080/17565529.2019.1671784 (28)
Delina, L. 2019. The politics of energy and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics, Kathleen Hancock and Juliann Allison (eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190861360.013.29 (27)
Delina, L. 2019. Book Review of Energy and Civilization, Vaclav Smil (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press) in Northeastern Geographer 10:22-25. pdf (26)
Sander Chan,Idil Boran, Harro van Asselt, GabrielaIacobuta, Navam Niles, Katharine Rietig, Michelle Scobie, Jennifer S. Bansard, Deborah Delgado Pugley, Delina, L, Friederike Eichhorn, Paula Ellinger, Okechukwu Enechi, Thomas Hale, Lukas Hermwille, Matthia Honegger, Andrea Hurtado Epstein, Stephanie La Hoz Theuer, Robert Mizo, Yixian Sun, Patrick Toussaint and Geoffrey Wambugu. 2019. Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance. WIREs Climate Change 10:e572, doi: 10.1002/wcc.572 (25)
Jens Marquardt and Delina, L. 2019. Reimagining energy futures: Contributions from community sustainable energy transitions in Thailand and the Philippines. Energy Research & Social Science 49:91-102, doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.028 (24)
2018
Delina, L. 2018. Climate mobilisation and democracy: The promise of community energy transitions in a deliberative system. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 22:30-42, doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2018.1525287 (23)
Delina, L. and Benjamin K. Sovacool. 2018. Of temporality and plurality: An epistemic and governance agenda for accelerating just transitions for energy access and sustainable development. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 34, 1-6, doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.05.016 (22)
Delina, L. and Rufa Cagoco-Guiam. 2018. Extreme weather event-social conflict nexus in the Philippines. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 13:90-95, doi:10.1080/15423166.2018.1427137 (21)
Delina, L. 2018. Energy democracy in a continuum: Remaking of public engagement on energy transitions in Thailand. Energy Research and Social Science 42:53-60, doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.03.008 (20)
Delina, L. 2018. Can energy democracy thrive in a non-democracy? Frontiers in Environmental Science 6:5, doi:10.3389/fenvs.2018.00005 (19)
Delina, L. and Anthony Janetos. 2018. Cosmopolitan, dynamic, and contested energy futures: Navigating the pluralities and polarities of the energy systems of tomorrow. Energy Research & Social Science 35:1-10, doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.031 (18)
Delina, L. 2018. Whose and what futures? Navigating the contested coproduction of Thailand’s sociotechnical imaginaries. Energy Research & Social Science 35:48-56, doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.045 (17)
Delina, L. and Mark Diesendorf. 2018. Critiquing the use of war to mobilize peaceful climate action: A response to Kester & Sovacool. Energy Policy 112: 1-3. doi:10.10.1016/j.enpol.2017.09.046 (16)
2017
Delina, L. 2017. Multilateral development banking in a fragmented climate finance system: Shifting allocation priorities at Asian Development Bank. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 17(1): 73-88. doi:10.1007/s10784-016-9344-7 (15)
2016
Delina, L. and Mark Diesendorf. 2016. Strengthening the climate action movement: Strategies from contemporary social action campaigns. Interface 8(1): 117-141. (14)
Delina, L. 2016. Book Review of Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation. Edited by Laura Diaz Anadon, Matthew Bunn and Venkatesh Narayanamurti (New York: Cambridge University Press) in Science & Public Policy 43(5): 728-730. doi:10.1093/scipol/scw010 (13)
Delina, L. 2016. Book Review of Energy Security, Equality, and Justice, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Roman V. Sidortsov and Benjamin R. Jones (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) in Energy Research & Social Science 12:111-112. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2015.10.005 (12)
2014
Delina, L., Mark Diesendorf and John Merson. 2014. Strengthening the climate action movement: Strategies from histories. Carbon Management 5(4): 397-409. doi:10.1080/17583004.2015.1005396 (11)
2013
Delina, L. and Mark Diesendorf. 2013. Is wartime mobilisation a suitable policy model for rapid national climate mitigation? Energy Policy 58: 371-380. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.03.036 (10)
2012
Delina, L. 2012. Coherence in energy efficiency governance. Energy for Sustainable Development 16(4): 493- 499. doi:10.1016/j.esd.2012.10.004 (9)
Delina, L. 2012. Informational governance of climate change institutions, in ICTs, Climate Change and Development: Themes and Strategic Actions, Angelica Ospina & Richard Heeks (eds.) Manchester: University of Manchester. 207-236. pdf (8)
Delina, L. 2012. Philippines, in Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change, 2nd edition, George Philander (ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage. 1102-1103. doi:10.4135/9781452218564.n554 (7)
Delina, L. 2012. Thailand, in Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change, 2nd edition, George Philander (ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage. 1336-1338. doi:10.4135/9781452218564.n677 (6)
Delina, L. 2012. Green economy, in Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change, 2nd edition, George Philander (ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage. 672-674. doi:10.4135/9781452218564.n321 (5)
Delina, L. 2012. Bhutan, in Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change, 2nd edition, George Philander (ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage. 130-132. doi:10.4135/9781452218564.n69 (4)
2011
Delina, L. 2011. Asian Development Bank’s support for clean energy. Climate Policy 11(6): 1350-1366. doi:10.1080/14693062.2011.579288 (3)
Delina, L. 2011. Clean energy financing at Asian Development Bank. Energy for Sustainable Development 15(2): 195-199. doi:10.1016/j.esd.2011.04.005 (2)
2010
Delina, L. 2010. Mitigating climate change via clean energy financing: an assessment of Asian Development Bank’s mitigation efforts in Southeast Asia, in Social, Economic and Political Aspects of Climate Change, Walter Leal (ed.) Heidelberg: Springer, 51-68. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14776-0_4 (1)
The Delina Research Group 