Susanne Hanger-Kopp
Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Susanne Hanger-Kopp is a researcher in the Equity and Justice Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. She first joined IIASA as a researcher in the former Risk and Resilience Program in 2010. Her work focuses on decision-making, governance, and risk management in the context of climate and societal changes, while her methodological focus is soft systems approaches using co-production methods, text analysis, expert elicitation, and the survey method, for which discourse analysis and cultural theory often provide a useful background.She holds a doctoral degree from the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and is also currently employed as a scientist and lecturer (Lehrauftrag) in the Climate Policy Group of this department. At IIASA, she leads the fairSTREAM project - an IIASA strategic initiative exploring fairness issues at the food-water-biodiversity nexus. In addition, she is the principal investigator of the WaterStressAT project, which explores climate change induced water stress through participatory modeling and contributes to the Pathways Project to design adaptation pathways in the context of flood risk management. She is actively involved in the development of a Systems Analysis Course as part of the IIASA Capacity Development and Academic Training (CDAT) Unit, and is a chapter lead author for the Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022.
Hanger-Kopp's interdisciplinary background stems from her graduate training in theoretical and applied geography at the University of Vienna in Austria where she specialized in regional development and EU policy with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. She also studied romance languages at the University of Vienna and was actively involved in the foundation and running of a European Youth Media NGO for a number of years.
Last update: 15 FEB 2022
Publications
Hanger, S., Komendantova, N. , Schinke, B., Zejli, D., Ihlal, A., & Patt, A. (2016). Community acceptance of large-scale solar energy installations in developing countries: Evidence from Morocco. Energy Research & Social Science 14 80-89. 10.1016/j.erss.2016.01.010.
MaƱez, M., Carmona, M., Haro, D., & Hanger, S. (2016). Risk perception. In: Novel Multi-Sector Partnerships in Disaster Risk Management. Results of the ENHANCE project. Eds. Aerts, Jeroen & Mysiak, Jaroslav, pp. 51-67 Brussels, Belgium: EU FP7 project ENHANCE.
Lilliestam, J. & Hanger, S. (2016). Shades of green: Centralisation, decentralisation and controversy among European renewable electricity visions. Energy Research & Social Science 17 20-29. 10.1016/j.erss.2016.03.011.
Berkhout, F., Bouwer, L.M., Bayer, J., Bouzid, M., Cabeza, M., Hanger, S., Hof, A., Hunter, P., Meller, L., Patt, A., Pfluger, B., Rayner, T., Reichardt, K., & van Teeffelen, A. (2015). Editorial - European policy responses to climate change: progress on mainstreaming emissions reduction and adaptation. Regional Environmental Change 15 (6) 949-959. 10.100/s10113-015-0801-6.
Hanger, S., Haug, C., Lung, T., & Bouwer, L.M. (2015). Mainstreaming climate change in regional development policy in Europe: Five insights from the 2007-013 programming period. Regional Environmental Change 15 (6) 973-985. 10.1007/s10113-013-0549-9.