Amanda Palazzo
Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Amanda Palazzo joined the IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program in 2012, to work on the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM). Her work includes addressing water scarcity from growing sector demand as well as from climate change. Additionally, she is continuing her work with the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) program of the CGIAR to quantify future regional development scenarios of environmental and human livelihoods. Regions of specific interest include Eastern and Western Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America.Ms. Palazzo earned her MS degree in Agricultural and Consumer Economics with a concentration in Natural Resource, Production, and Environmental Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research was part of a multi-disciplinary project including a team of economists, hydrologists, and sociologists that analyzed the surface water-groundwater interactions of the Nebraska portion of the Republican River Basin in order to model the welfare impacts of alternative spatial water management policies on individual farmers.
Prior to joining IIASA, Ms. Palazzo worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) where she worked as a developer of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT).
Last update: 15 SEP 2020
Publications
Palazzo, A. , van Dijk, M., Havlik, P. , Krisztin, T. , & Frank, S. (2019). Assessing Climate Smart Agriculture in an uncertain future to reach development and mitigation goals in Zambia. In: Systems Analysis and Africa Conference, December 2019, Pretoria, South Africa.
Hasegawa, T., Havlik, P. , Frank, S. , Palazzo, A. , & Valin, H. (2019). Tackling food consumption inequality to fight hunger without pressuring the environment. Nature Sustainability 2 826-833. 10.1038/s41893-019-0371-6.
Deppermann, A., Valin, H. , Gusti, M., Sperling, F., Batka, M. , Chang, J. , Frank, S. , Havlik, P. , Lauri, P., Leclere, D., Palazzo, A. , Thomson, M. , & Obersteiner, M. (2019). Towards sustainable food and land-use systems: Insights from integrated scenarios of the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM). IIASA , Laxenburg, Austria.
Pastor, A., Palazzo, A. , Havlik, P. , Biemans, H., Wada, Y. , Obersteiner, M. , Kabat, P., & Ludwig, F. (2019). The global nexus of food–trade–water sustaining environmental flows by 2050. Nature Sustainability 10.1038/s41893-019-0287-1.
van Dijk, M., Palazzo, A. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Havlik, P. , & Pachauri, S. (2019). Assessing the land-energy nexus in Southern Africa: An integrated assessment and scenario approach. In: EGU General Assembly 2019, 7-9 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.