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Al­bina Dioba

Assistant Professor

Subjects
Biodiversity Sustainability Green transition Energy Circular economy Quantitative methods

Primary research areas

Pro-environmental behavior change

My primary research explores how insights from behavioral economics can be applied to promote pro-environmental behavior change, contributing to the broader advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Just Energy Transition

Researching how energy transitions can be inclusive and socially just, with a special focus on energy communities. Emphasis is placed on policies that engage diverse stakeholders, especially women, in co-creating equitable, democratic, and sustainable energy systems.

Biodiversity and collective pro-environmental action

Exploring how community-based initiatives like urban gardening enhance local biodiversity and sustainability. Emphasis on inclusive participation, especially of youth, using behavioral science to design interventions that promote pro-environmental choices at individual and community levels.

Circular Economy

Exploring circular sanitation systems as drivers for sustainable food systems and climate mitigation. Focus on source-separated wastewater reuse, nutrient recovery, and stakeholder engagement, to identify barriers and upscaling strategies for system-wide adoption.

Behavioral Insights for Sustainability

My research explores how behavioral economic insights can advance socially just and inclusive transitions toward achieving the SDGs. I investigate the barriers and motivations behind pro-environmental behavior. 

I focus on stakeholder and citizen engagement in green transitions, with particular emphasis on energy communities, biodiversity, and circular economy practices to support community-driven change. My recent work contributes to EU-funded projects on sustainable food systems, wastewater reuse, and open innovation. 

Using a mixed-methods approach, combining empirical field experiments, surveys, and interviews, I aim to support decision-makers, civil society, and local communities in fostering equitable, participatory, and regenerative futures. 

I am also part of the CBS Permahaven team, a permaculture garden and learning space, where we translate research into hands-on sustainability education and peacebuilding practice.

Recent research projects

P2Green

P2GreeN’s overall objective is to foster a paradigm shift, from a linearly organised resource and nutrient system within the agri-food supply chain, towards a circular material flow system between urban and rural areas thereby restoring the coupling of the water-agri-food system using a holistic symbiotic resource management approach following the 3R principle “Reduce, Reuse, Recover”.
Project website

Vision4Food

VISION4FOOD is a Horizon Europe project aiming to enhance the sustainability and resilience of European food systems by developing innovative governance models that support informed decision-making and encourage social engagement. Operating across five diverse regions, Finland, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Poland, the project will adapt to varying levels of innovation ecosystem maturity to drive impactful change.
Project website

CBS Permahaven

Permahaven’ creates a framework for knowledge sharing about sustainability between CBS students and staff and the local community, inspired by permaculture thinking. Permahaven also strengthens biodiversity and the green corridors in Frederiksberg Municipality as well as increases well-being among the above groups. Why: CBS Campus has a great biodiversity potential if more campus square meters are used for green purposes in line with FRB Municipality’s Biodiversity Strategy. Permahaven also contributes to opening up CBS campus to the local community by enabling voluntary collaboration between CBS actors and various local groups such as children’s and elderly institutions, ethnic minorities and the unemployed. CBS theoretical knowledge about sustainability that can, through Permahaven, be wider communicated to local communities.
Project website