Scholars
Dafni Kalatzi Pantera
University of Birmingham
Based in
United Kingdom
Europe
Dr. Pantera is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Government at the University of Birmingham. She obtained her PhD in 2023 at the University of Essex. Pantera’s interests lie between comparative politics and the political economy of climate. In particular, she focuses on environmental behaviors of various societal actors, such as individuals, political elites, and corporations. Her thesis concentrated on the debate around environmental salience, and she has approached this issue by analyzing environmental salience of two different social actors: the public and political parties in the European context. Currently, Pantera’s research on environmental political behavior has taken two forms. On the one hand, she expands her interest on the role of societal actors by examining corporations’ engagement – or not – with environmental issues. On the other hand, Pantera focuses on the health impacts of climate change and try to understand whether information about them helps close the knowledge-to-action gap for accelerating climate change action.

Country(ies) of Specialty
United KingdomFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politics Behavioral action Public opinionPublications
Articles
Kalatzi Pantera, Dafni. “Does global integration foster environmental mobilization? The effect of global norms on environmental movement participation.” Environmental Politics (2024): 1-24.
van Daalen, Kim R., et al. “The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action.” The Lancet Public Health (2024).
Kalatzi Pantera, Dafni, Tobias Böhmelt, and Zorzeta Bakaki. “The transnational influence of natural disasters on environmental attitudes.” European Journal of Political Research 62.3 (2023): 761-780.