Tomislav Tomašević completed a BA and MA in Political Science at the University of Zagreb and MPhil in Environment, Society and Development at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are related to commons, transformation of public services, critical urban theory, environmental justice and social movements.

For the past 20 years he has been engaged in activism on issues of youth, environment and urban development. Tomislav was the president of Croatian Youth Network, president of Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia and co-founder of Right to the City and Group 22. He was a member of several advisory bodies, including the Governmental Advisory Council for Youth and the Governmental Advisory Council for Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection. At the international level, he has been active in the global movement for environmental justice, participated at around 10 UN ministerial conferences on sustainable development and acted  as a honorary Youth Advisor at the global level to the UN Environment Programme.

He has received several awards and scholarships, including the Marshal Memorial Fellowship, Chevening Fellowship and Cambridge Overseas Trust Fellowship.

His publications reflect a diversity of formats including policy analysis, theoretical texts, scientific articles, empirical studies and educational manuals, as well as diversity of research areas, such as youth policy, environmental protection, sustainable development, governance of natural resources, etc. He has co-authored two UNDP Human Development Reports on youth issues and written several manuals and publications on youth policy. In the area of sustainability, he has written several publications on environmental law and renewable natural resources management, most recent of which is “Message in a Bottle: Analysis of Concessions Policy on Water Extraction for Bottling and Market Sale”.

He is currently conducting research on the theory of commons, democratisation of railway services, and models of participative governance of water services and waste management services.
 


TOMISLAV’S ACTIVITIES


TOMISLAV’S SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH

Dolenec, D, Doolan, K, Tomasevic, T (forthcoming 2017) Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism on the European Semi-periphery: the Right to the City movement in Croatia, Europe – Asia Studies, 9

Domazet, M, Dolenec, D, Cvijanovic, V, Tomasevic, T, Walton, JF, Doolan, K, Zitko, M (2014) We Need to Change. Ideas of Growth and Development in a Time of Crisis of Fossil Energy and Capitalism. Etnoloska tribina: Journal of Croatian Ethnological Society, 44 /37, 37-71

Dolenec, D, Tomasevic, T, et al. (2014) The Struggle for the Commons in the Balkans. In: Bibic, V, Horvat, S et al. (eds) The Balkan Forum: Situations, Struggles, Strategies. Bijeli val, Zagreb, 9-34

Tomasevic, T, Leljak Gracin, Z (eds.) (2014)) Legal Instruments for the Environmental Protection, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia, Zagreb.

Horvat, V, Tomasevic, T (2011) Green Parties in Europe: Potential Routes of Future Development, Croatian International Relations Review, 17(64/65), 15 – 29

Buzinkic, E, Puljic, D, Tomasevic, T (2011) Steps towards successful youth policy in local communities, 3rd and enlarged edition. Croatian Youth Network, Zagreb.

Aguado Asenjo, E., Tomasevic, T, et. al. (2006) Unplugged: faces of social exclusion in Croatia – UNDP Human Development Report for Croatia. UNDP Croatia, Zagreb.

Bacic, L, Selo Sabic, S, Tomasevic, T et al. (2004) Youth – UNDP Human Development Report for Croatia. UNDP Croatia, Zagreb.