ESM is organized in three scientific centers, which are tightly integrated to carry out solution oriented integrated assessment work.
Center for Landscape, Resilience, and Management (CLR)
Center for Earth Observation and Citizen Science (EOCS)
Center for Environmental Resources and Development (ERD)
A selection of research fields within which our YSSP students undertake their studies and Post-Doc Scholars conduct their research in is listed below.
Applicants are encouraged to contact the program's Deputy Program Director, Florian Kraxner () for any scientific related questions.
ESM Selected Research Interests - Keywords: | ||
Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation | ||
Bioenergy | Gasification | Energy production balanced with Ecosystems Services |
Renewable energy systems | Solar | Sustainable biofuels |
Energy systems optimization | Waste to energy | Forest bioenergy |
Supply – demand modeling | Wind power | Agriculture bioenergy |
Optimal scaling and siting | Wind energy | Negative emissions |
Low carbon modeling | Waterpower | Low carbon society |
Feedstock for bioenergy systems | Hydropower | Power to liquid/gas |
Climate change impact assessment on forest fires | Hydro energy | Power/Heat distribution |
Forest fires adaptation to climate change | Biochar | District heating |
Climate data processing | Energy portfolio assessment | Direct emission mitigation |
Biogas | Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage BECCS | Pollutant reduction |
Supply chain | Cost estimation | |
Social Systems | ||
Science-policy interface | Decision Making | Participatory approaches |
Social integration | Communication | Consumer surveys |
Rural development | Public Opinion | Public opinion surveys |
Socio-economics | Stakeholder interaction | Consumer-driven tools and solutions |
Land use and Ecosystems | ||
Land-use modeling | Forest fires | Green building |
Global modeling | Forest fires in Europe | Transport logistics |
Forest governance | Tropical Futures | Ecosystem Services |
Forestry | Biophysical land-use modeling | Ecosystem Management |
Forest Sector | Geographically / spatially explicit analysis | Sustainable Biomass |
Forest management | Global modeling | Crop residuals |
Forest certification | Integrated modeling | Manure |
Forest products marketing | System Dynamics Modeling | Pipeline distribution |
Forest Communication | Bottom-up modeling and analysis | |
Economics | ||
Microeconomics (i.e. firm level) | Microeconomics energy sector | Microeconomics risk assessment and management microeconomics financial instruments for REDD |
Microeconomics power generation | ||
Other | ||
Real options | Spatially-explicit modeling, temporally-explicit models, gridded models | Soil conservation, soil chemistry, soil fertility, soil quality |
Portfolio optimization | Food security, food production | Transformation, land conversion assessment, life cycle assessment, environmental footprint |
Optimal control theory - dynamic systems | Nutrient budget, nutrient imbalance, nutrient flows, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, biogeochemistry | Land use, land cover, land transformation, land conversion |
Crop modeling, crop failure | Agricultural management, conservation agriculture, transitioning agriculture |
For more information about the ESM program, please see the ESM web site.
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CONTACT DETAILS
Program Director and Principal Research Scholar Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group - Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Program Director and Principal Research Scholar Strategic Initiatives Program
Principal Research Scholar Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group - Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group - Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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