ESM YSSP Program
The ESM Program has a long history of supporting and promoting YSSP students in the IIASA Young Scientist Summer Program. We select students from all over the globe, with multi-disciplinary interests related to ecosystem services. A selection of research fields within which our YSSP students undertake their studies is listed below.
Applicants are encouraged to contact the program YSSP representative, Florian Kraxner (kraxner@iiasa.ac.at) for any scientific related questions.
Selected Research Fields:
- Ecosystems Services Modeling
- Land-use Change Modeling and Management
- Biophysical Modeling of Management Practices in Forest and Agriculture
- Economic Modeling in the Forest and Agriculture Sectors
- Avoiding Deforestation (Policy) Assessments (REDD+)
- Livestock Modeling
- Food Security Assessments
- Environmental Cost-Benefit Assessments
- Geographically Explicit (engineering-type)
- Modeling of Bioenergy and other Renewables
- Environment-related Energy Economics
- Policy studies in the Forest and Agriculture Sectors
- Water Systems Assessments (Blue/Green/Grey)
- Full Carbon Accounting in geographically explicit manner
- Remote Sensing and Modeling of Bio-Geo-Chemical Fluxes and Processes
- Global Earth Observations and Value of Information Studies
- Validation of Land-cover Information
- Geographic Modeling and Data Generation with the Help of Crowd Sourcing
- Real Options and Portfolio A
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
For more information about the ESM program, please see the ESM web site.
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