Research Interests
The focus of my research has been on examining the barriers and opportunities to diffusing best practices and policies of energy transitions in the built environment in several European cities by drawing on a wide range of conceptual frameworks from social sciences.
I am currently working with the cross-faculty and interdisciplinary research project EMPOWER funded by UiO: Energy and Environment. As part of the WP1, I contribute to providing a sustainability framework for the project by identifying environmental and social impacts of electric vehicle (EV) batteries across lifecycle phases. I am particularly interested in studying the role of electric vehicle (EV) batteries in shaping multi-system interactions in urban energy systems.
Teaching
Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainability: A Toolkit for the Energy Transition (TEK9450), University of Oslo, Norway (Co-designing and lecturing since June 2023).
Energy efficiency and Sustainability, ISBA University of Cooperative Education, Freiburg, Germany (Designing and lecturing October 2018-March 2023).
Urban environmental planning in response to climate change, University College Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Germany (Designing and lecturing March 2019-April 2020).
Education
Technical University of Dortmund, 2007, PhD in Urban Planning
University of Stockholm, MSc in Business Administration and Economics
University of Stockholm, BSc in Business Administration
Tags:
Sustainability Transitions,
Sustainable Batteries,
Electromobility,
Urban Energy Transitions,
Qualitative Social Sciences Research,
Institutional Analysis,
Institutional Entrepreneurship,
Policy Mix Instruments
Selected publications
Mahzouni, A. (2022). Reducing Mobility-Related Energy Use in Future Cites: The Planning Process for Urban Mobility in the City-District of Dietenbach in Freiburg, Germany. Chapter 22 In K. Araujo (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Published on 29 December 2022, website url.
Mahzouni, A. (2019). Towards an Analytical Framework for Sociotechnical Urban Retrofit: Cities in the Upper Rhine Region. In P. Hamman & S. Vuilleumier (Eds.), Sustainability Research in the Upper Rhine Region: Concepts and Case Studies (pp. 269–288). Presses universitaires de Strasbourg (PUS), Strasbourg.
Mahzouni, A. (2019). The role of institutional entrepreneurship in emerging energy communities: The town of St. Peter in Germany.
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 107(2019), 297–308.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.03.011Mahzouni, A. (2019). The institutional challenges of scaling-up housing retrofit: the Swiss cities of Basel and Sion.
Journal of Facilities, 37(11/12), 780–798.
http://doi.org/10.1108/F-02-2017-0025Mahzouni, A. (2018). Urban brownfield redevelopment and energy transition pathways: A review of planning policies and practices in Freiburg.
Journal of Cleaner Production, 195(2018), 1476–1486.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.116Mahzouni, A. (2017). The role of co-building groups in creating sustainable buildings and neighbourhoods: lessons from Freiburg in Germany. In: M. Young (ed.), AMPS Proceedings Series 9. Living and Sustainability: An Environmental Critique of Design and Building Practices, Locally and Globally. London South Bank University, London, 08 – 09 February (2017). pp. [394-402].
Mahzouni, A. (2015). The Policy Mix for Sustainable Urban Transition: The city district of Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm.
Environmental Policy and Governance, 25(4), 288–302.
http://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1688Mahzouni, A. (2015) Book review of “The politics and institutions of global energy governance” by Thijs Van de Graaf. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 208pp.
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 16 (2), 184-187.
https://doi.org/10.1177/178359171501600207Mahzouni, A. (2013). The missing link between urban and rural development: Lessons from Iraqi Kurdistan Region. In: Peripheralization: The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice, pp.121-144. Matthias Naumann and Andrea Fischer-Tahir (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2013.
Mahzouni, A. (2011). Institutionalization of Peace and Dialogue among the Riparian Stakeholders of the Tigris River Basin (Iran/Iraq). Working paper. Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research (KISSR). Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
Mahzouni, A. (2008). Participatory Local Governance for Sustainable Community-Driven Development: The Case of the Rural Periphery in the Kurdish Region of Iraq.
Doctoral Thesis, 201 pages, Technical University of Dortmund.
https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/handle/2003/25219
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