Sylvia Prieler

Sylvia Prieler is a land use and GIS expert who has been working in IIASA’s interdisciplinary and policy oriented research focused in the food and water thematic area for over 15 years. Since joining the Land Use Change and Agriculture (LUC) Program in January 1997 (Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program as of 2011), she has contributed to research in systems analysis of agriculture, land use change and ecosystem studies. In 1994, Dr. Prieler participated in IIASA’s Young Summer Scientists Program, after which she continued working as a research scholar with the ‘Regional Material Balance Approaches to Long-Term Environmental Planning’.

Her responsibilities have included the development of large spatial databases serving the modeling and analysis needs in the areas of food-environment-bioenergy-water linkages, food-system analysis, land use scenarios and environmental transition. She was involved in Agro-Ecological Zones Methodology assessments for agricultural development planning, worked on several assessments of biofuels and food security, and the mobilization of resources for the bio-economy. In sustainable consumption research she has been a principal investigator in analysis tracing embodied land use and deforestation in agricultural and forestry products from primary production to final utilization. The geographic focus of her research has been both global and regional (e.g. Europe, China, and Brazil).

Dr. Prieler graduated in 1994 from Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences with principal subjects in land use planning, environmental sciences and ecology. In 2005 she received her PhD from the same University, based on research on ‘The impact of temperature and precipitation variability on potential agricultural production in China’.

Last update: 04-SEP-2012

Prieler,S. Fischer,G. van Velthuizen,H. (2013)

Land and the food-fuel competition: Insights from modeling ... More

Fischer,G. Hizsnyik,E. Prieler,S. Wiberg,D. (2011)

Scarcity and abundance of land resources: Competing uses and the shrinking land resource base ... More

Londo,M. Lensink,S. Wakker,A. Fischer,G. Prieler,S. van Velthuizen,H.T. de Wit,M. Faaij,A. Junginger,M. Berndes,G. Hansson,J. Egeskog,A. Duer,H. (2010)

The REFUEL EU road map for biofuels in transport: Application of the project's tools to some short-term policy issues ... More

Fischer,G. Prieler,S. van Velthuizen,H.T. Berndes,G. Faaij,A. de Wit,M. (2010)

Biofuel production potentials in Europe: Sustainable use of cultivated land and pastures, Part II: Land use scenarios ... More

Fischer,G. Prieler,S. van Velthuizen,H.T. Lensink,S.M. Londo,M. de Wit,M. (2010)

Biofuel production potentials in Europe: Sustainable use of cultivated land and pastures. Part I: Land productivity potentials ... More

Fischer,G. Prieler,S. van Velthuizen,H. (2010)

Eastern Europe's biofuel potential ... More

Fischer,G. Hizsnyik,E. Prieler,S. Shah,M. van Velthuizen,H. (2009)

Biofuels and Food Security ... More

Fischer,G. Hizsnyik,E. Prieler,S. Shah,M. van Velthuizen,H. (2009)

Biofuels and Food Security: Implications of an Accelerated Biofuels Production ... More

Fischer,G. Prieler,S. van Velthuizen,H.T. (2005)

Biomass potentials of miscanthus, willow and poplar: Results and policy implications for Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia ... More

Liu,S. Prieler,S. (2002)

Spatial Patterns and Dynamic Mechanisms of Urban Land Use Growth in China: Case Studies in Beijing and Shanghai ... More

Fischer,G. van Velthuizen,H.T. Prieler,S. (2001)

Assessment of Potential Productivity of Tree Species in China, Mongolia and the Former Soviet Union: Methodology and Results ... More

Anderberg,S. Prieler,S. Olendrzynski,K. Bruyn,S. de (2000)

Old Sins. Industrial Metabolism, Heavy Metal Pollution, and Environmental Transition in Central Europe ... More

Prieler,S. (1999)

Temperature and Precipitation Variability in China - A Gridded Monthly Time Series from 1958 to 1988 ... More

Prieler,S. Lesko,A.P. Anderberg,S. (1998)

Three Scenarios for Land-Use Change: A Case Study in Central Europe ... More

Brogaard,S. Prieler,S. (1998)

Land cover in the Horqin Grasslands, North China. Detecting changes between 1975 and 1990 by means of remote sensing ... More

Prieler,S. Anderberg,S. (1996)

Assessment of Long Term Impacts of Cadmium and Lead Load to Agricultural Soils in the Upper Elbe and Oder River Basins ... More

Prieler,S. Hamann,B. Anderberg,S. Stigliani,W.M. (1996)

Land Use Change in Europe- Scenarios for a Project Area in East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic ... More

Prieler,S. Smal,H. Olendrzynski,K. Anderberg,S. Stigliani,W.M. (1996)

Cadmium, Zinc and Lead Load to Agricultural Land in the Upper Oder and Elbe Basins During the Period 1955-1994 ... More