Publications
- George Iordachescu (2026). ‘The New Wild East: Commodifying Wilderness and the Opening of European Green Frontiers’. Commodity Frontiers, Issue 8, 34 – 42. Open Access.
- George Iordachescu, Gabriel Girigan and Bogdan Vătavu (2026). ‘Environmental injustice in the political forests of Romania‘. Forest Policy and Economics, 188:103805. Open Access.
- Georg Winkel, Jelle Behagel, George Iordachescu, Metodi Sotirov, and Sven Wunder (2026). ‘What comes after the European Green Deal? Analyzing the state and perspective of the EU’s land use and conservation policy‘. Conservation Letters, Jan/Feb, 19(1), e13160. Open Access
- George Iordachescu and Michal Krajewski. (2025). ‘Scientific Uncertainty before the EU Courts, Boards of Appeal, and the National Courts in Environmental Matters’, in ‘The Legitimacy of EU Environmental Governance and the Role of the European Courts’, edited by Mariolina Eliantonio & Emma Lees, Oxford University Press.
- George Iordachescu, Monica Vasile (2023), ‘Forests of fear: Illegal logging, criminalisation and violence in the Carpathian Mountains’, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(9): 2108-2125. Open Access.
- George Iordachescu (2022) ‘Convivial conservation prospects in Europe – from wilderness protection to reclaiming the commons’, Conservation & Society, 20(2): 156-166. Open Access.
- Vasile Monica, George Iordachescu (2022) ‘Forest Crisis Narratives: Illegal Logging, Datafication and the Conservation Frontier in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains’, Political Geography, 96:102600. Open Access.
- George Iordachescu (2021) ‘The shifting geopolitical ecologies of wild nature conservation in Romania’, in Eszter Krasznai Kovacs (Ed.) Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe, Open Book Publishers, Cambridge UK. Open Access.
- George Iordachescu (2018) ‘Making the ‘European Yellowstone’ – unintended consequences or unrealistic intentions.’ Environment & Society, Arcadia Journal, Spring 2018. Open Access.
Policy Recommendations & Engagement
- EcoJust Project, ‘Environmental justice concerns in forest management’ (in Romanian), Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, June 2026.
Podcasts
- George Iordachescu, ‘Polarization, Control and Securitization in the Romanian Forests‘, Episode 2 of EcoJust Podcasts hosted by Romana Puiulet (Rise Project/ University of Sibiu), 36’07”, June 2026.