I am deeply interested in the political economy of environmental crises. While my primary focus lies on climate change mitigation and adaptation in housing, my research combines more broadly the politics of policy change and the sociology of public action, integrating institutional and behavioural perspectives.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Bradley, M., R. Chazottes, S. Garside and N. Lopez-Uroz (2026), “Educational policies can strengthen climate coalitions”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cigna, L. and N. Lopez-Uroz (2026), “The Limits of Green Concertation: Business Fragmentation and the Political Economy of the Agricultural Transition in the Netherlands”, New Political Economy.
Under Review
Lopez-Uroz, N., “All it Takes is Political Will? Political Agency, Cabinet Negotiations and the Making of Stringent Climate Regulations”, R&R, West European Politics.
Lopez-Uroz, N., "Keeping Something in the Pipe: How Gas Distributors Navigate the Heat Transition”, R&R, Socio-Economic Review.
Chapters and Discussion Papers
Lopez-Uroz, N., M. Akguc and L. Westhoff, (2021), “Shaping an evolving framework on return to work: the role of the social partners in Belgium” in Akguc, M. (eds). Continuing at work: Long-term illness, return to work schemes and the role of industrial relations, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels
Lopez-Uroz, N. (2020), ”Populism Amidst Prosperity: Poland’s Growth Model and its Socio-Political Outcomes,” LEQS, LSE ’Europe in Question’ Discussion Paper Series 159, London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
Working Papers
Chazottes, R. and N. Lopez-Uroz, “Technocratic or Political? Political Biases in Drought Recovery in France”
Lopez-Uroz, N., “Building Green Coalitions: Renovation or Electrification?”
Lopez-Uroz, N., “Renovation Bargains: Socio-ecological Risks and Distributional Conflicts in Green Housing Policy”