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Amanda Palazzo

Research Scholar

Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

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. , Valin, H. , Batka, M. , & Havlik, P. (2019). What level of public investments in irrigation is needed to make the SDGs achievable? In: Scenarios Forum 2019, 11-13 March 2019, Denver, Colorado.

Veeger, M., Mason-D'Croz, D., Dunston, S., Vervoort, J., & Palazzo, A. (2019). Crash-testing policies; How scenarios can support climate change policy formulation A methodological guide with case studies from Latin America. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

Johnson, N., Burek, P. , Byers, E. , Falchetta, G., Flörke, M., Fujimori, S., Havlik, P. , Hejazi, M., Hunt, J. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Nakicenovic, N. , Palazzo, A. , Popp, A., Riahi, K. , van Dijk, M., van Vliet, M.T.H., van Vuuren, D.P., Wada, Y. , Wiberg, D., Willaarts, B. , Zimm, C. , & Parkinson, S. (2019). Integrated Solutions for the Water-Energy-Land Nexus: Are Global Models Rising to the Challenge? Water 11 (11) no. 2223. 10.3390/w11112223.

Palazzo, A. , van Dijk, M., Willaarts, B. , Magnuszewski, P., Mayor Rodriguez, B., Burek, P. , Kahil, T. , Tang, T. , Byers, E. , Pachauri, S. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Krisztin, T. , Riahi, K. , Krey, V. , Wada, Y. , Langan, S. , Obersteiner, M. , & Havlik, P. (2018). Integrated solutions for water, energy, and land nexus management the Zambezi Basin: stakeholder engagement and modeling. In: 3rd Zambezi Basin Stakeholders’ forum: Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus for Socio-Economic Benefits in the Zambezi River Basin, 8-9 October 2018, Lilongwe, Malawi.