Amanda Palazzo
Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Amanda Palazzo has been a research scholar in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program since 2012. She is one of the core developers of the partial-equilibrium Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM). As part of this work, she focuses on the water-energy-land-climate nexus. She has also worked extensively with stakeholder communities to improve the relevance of modeling tools for local and regional contexts by co-developing scenarios that incorporate local insights, challenges, and development priorities.Palazzo is the co-founder and current president of the IIASA Women in Science Club (WISC), which amplifies the scientific contributions of women and provides an inclusive platform for members to work together to tackle the challenges facing women in science. She also co-coordinates the WISC mentoring program.
Prior to joining IIASA, Palazzo worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as a developer of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT).
Last update: 11 NOV 2024
Publications
Palazzo, A. , Vervoort, J.M., Mason-D’Croz, D., Rutting, L., Havlik, P. , Islam, S., Bayala, J., Valin, H. , Kadi Kadi, H.A., Thornton, P., & Zougmore, R. (2017). Linking regional stakeholder scenarios and shared socioeconomic pathways: Quantified West African food and climate futures in a global context. Global Environmental Change 45 227-242. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.12.002.
van Soesbergen, A., Arnell, A.P., Sassen, M., Stuch, B., Schaldach, R., Göpel, J., Vervoort, J., Mason-D’Croz, D., Islam, S., & Palazzo, A. (2017). Exploring future agricultural development and biodiversity in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi: a spatially explicit scenario-based assessment. Regional Environmental Change 17 (5) 1409-1420. 10.1007/s10113-016-0983-6.
Willaarts, B. , Langan, S. , Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Byers, E. , Deppermann, A., Gidden, M. , Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Leclere, D. , Kahil, T. , Khan, Z., Krisztin, T. , Krey, V. , Magnuszewski, P., Mastrucci, A. , Mayor Rodriguez, B., Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Poblete Cazenave, M. , Riahi, K. , Satoh, Y., van Dijk, M. , & Wada, Y. (2017). Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy and Land Progress report 2. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Laxenburg, Austria.
Palazzo, A. , Vervoort, J.M., Mason-D’Croz, D., Rutting, L., Havlik, P. , Islam, S., Bayala, J., Kadi, H.K., Thornton, P., & Zougmore, R. (2016). Interpreting the Shared Socio-economic Pathways under Climate Change for the ECOWAS region through a stakeholder and multi-model process. In: 5th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, September 23-26, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Obersteiner, M. , Walsh, B. , Frank, S. , Havlik, P. , Cantele, M., Liu, J., Palazzo, A. , Herrero, M., Lu, Y., Mosnier, A., Valin, H. , Riahi, K. , Kraxner, F., Fritz, S. , & van Vuuren, D. (2016). Assessing the land resource-food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals. Science Advances 2 (9) e1501499. 10.1126/sciadv.1501499.