Thomas Schinko
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Contact
Biography
Thomas Schinko is Senior Research Scholar and Research Group Leader of the Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group in the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He is a regular lecturer at the University of Graz and the Joint Vienna Institute.His main research interests at IIASA are in the areas of comprehensive climate risk management and just transitions. He focuses on the assessment of socioeconomic impacts of climate-related risks and their distributional effects, the identification of just and inclusive climate risk management strategies, the understanding of risks and risk perceptions connected with climate change mitigation and adaptation options, and the ethical and politico-economic aspects in the context of a just transition towards a sustainable future.
His areas of expertise include quantitative economic modeling as well as qualitative social science methods with a particular focus on mixed-methods approaches involving participatory processes. He studied economics and environmental system sciences at the University of Graz, Austria and Uppsala University, Sweden.
Last update: 23 FEB 2023
Publications
Kreienkamp, F., Fruh, B., Kotlarski, S., Linke, C., Olefs, M., Schauser, I., Schinko, T. , Schwierz, C., Walter, A., & Zimmer, M. (2022). Empfehlungen für die Charakterisierung ausgewählter Klimaszenarien. Zentralanstalt fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik
Schinko, T. & Tordy, M. (2022). Transformative science and peer-to-peer learning for empowering the youth amidst the climate crisis. In: 11th World Environmental Education Congress Building Bridges in Times of Climate Urgency, 14-18 March 2022, Prague.
Schinko, T. & Bednar-Friedl, B. (2022). Fostering social learning through role-play simulations to operationalize comprehensive climate risk management: Insights from applying the RESPECT role-play in Austria. Climate Risk Management 35 e100418. 10.1016/j.crm.2022.100418.
Hanger-Kopp, S., Thaler, T., Seebauer, S., Schinko, T. , & Clar, C. (2022). Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways. Global Environmental Change 72 e102425. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102425.
Steininger, K., Schinko, T. , Rieder, H., Kromp-Kolp, H., Kienberger, S., Kirchengast, G., Michl, C., Schwarzl, I., & Lambert, S. (2022). +1,5° C: Wieviel Treibhausgase dürfen wir noch emittieren? CCCA Fact Sheet #40. Climate Change Center Austria (CCCA) , Graz, Austria.