Thomas Schinko
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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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
de Goer de Herve, M., Schinko, T. , & Handmer, J. (2023). Risk justice: Boosting the contribution of risk management to sustainable development. Risk Analysis 10.1111/risa.14157. (In Press)
Peisker, J. & Schinko, T. (2023). Yes we can? Effects of a participatory visioning process on perceived climate efficacy. Frontiers in Climate 5 e1129789.. 10.3389/fclim.2023.1129789.
Seebauer, S., Thaler, T., Hanger-Kopp, S., & Schinko, T. (2023). How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria. Regional Environmental Change 23 (1) e31. 10.1007/s10113-023-02029-y.
Zebisch, M., Renner, K., Pittore, M., Fritsch, U., Fruchter, S.R., Kienberger, S., Schinko, T. , Sparkes, E., Hagenlocher, M., Schneiderbauer, S., & Delvis, J.L. (2023). Climate Risk Sourcebook. Bonn, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
Yokomatsu, M., Schinko, T. , Mochizuki, J. , & Rezai, A. (2023). Climate-related Disaster and Human Capital Investment in the Global South — Household Heterogeneity and Growth. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3532426/v1. (Submitted)