Dr. Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu
Fellow
Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu is a sustainability researcher with a background in exploring social-ecological systems and experience in place-based transdisciplinary research for sustainability transformation. She is interested in leveraging the transformative potential of knowledge co-creation in real-world contexts. Her main focus is on the role of held and assigned values in underpinning such knowledge. Through her boundary work, she aspires to contribute to managing the science|society interface, and to reframing sustainability in terms of core human values and empathetic relationships. Andra is a lead author in the IPBES Values assessment and the Transformative change assessment.
- 2020-2022: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship
- 2019-2020: Postdoctoral research at Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)
- 2015-2019: Postdoctoral research at Leuphana University of Lueneburg
- 2011-2015: PhD, Leuphana University of Lueneburg
- 2008-2010: MA, Université libre de Bruxelles
- 2004-2008: Licence diploma, University of Bucharest
- Transformative sustainability research
- Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation
- Transdisciplinary sustainability science
- Inner sustainability
Publications at the RIFS
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- Horcea-Milcu, A.-I. (2022). Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 57, 101205. doi:10.1016/J.COSUST.2022.101205 Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research - ScienceDirect
- Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Leventon, J., & Lang, D. J. (2022). Making transdisciplinarity happen: Phase 0, or before the beginning. Environmental Science & Policy, 136(June), 187-197. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.05.019 Making transdisciplinarity happen: Phase 0, or before the beginning - ScienceDirect
- Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Zaman, S., Filyushkina, A., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Cebrián-Piqueras, M. A., Raymond, C. M., & Hill, R. (2022). The relationship between values and knowledge in visioning for landscape management: relevance for a collaborative approach. Https://Doi.Org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2108498, 18(1), 498-513. doi:10.1080/26395916.2022.2108498 Full article: The relationship between values and knowledge in visioning for landscape management: relevance for a collaborative approach (tandfonline.com)