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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

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Byers, E. , Parkinson, S. , Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Ebi, K., Gidden, M. , Grey, D., Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Leclere, D., Nakicenovic, N. , Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Palazzo, A. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2018). Global climate and development hotspots assessment: Asia under pressure. In: 5th Asian Energy Modelling Workshop, 10-12 September 2018, Singapore.

van Dijk, M., You, L., Mosnier, A., Havlik, P. , & Palazzo, A. (2018). Generating high-resolution national crop distribution maps: Combining statistics, gridded data and surveys using an optimization approach. In: 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), August 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Byers, E. , Gidden, M. , Leclere, D., Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Ebi, K., Grey, D., Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Nakicenovic, N. , Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , Willaarts, B. , & Riahi, K. (2018). Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots. In: International Energy Workshop, 19-21 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Byers, E. , Gidden, M., Leclere, D., Burek, P. , Ebi, K.L., Greve, P., Grey, D., Havlik, P. , Hillers, A., Johnson, N., Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Langan, S. , Nakicenovic, N., Novak, R., Obersteiner, M. , Pachauri, S. , Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, N. , Rogelj, J. , Riahi, K. , Satoh, Y., Wada, Y. , & Willaarts, B. (2018). Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots. Environmental Research Letters 13 e055012. 10.1088/1748-9326/aabf45.

Willaarts, B. , Langan, S. , Balkovic, J. , Burek, P. , Byers, E. , Deppermann, A., Frank, S. , Gidden, M. , Greve, P., Havlik, P. , Kahil, T. , Krey, V. , Magnuszewski, P., Mayor Rodriguez, B., Palazzo, A. , Parkinson, S. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Riahi, K. , van Dijk, M., Vinca, A. , & Wada, Y. (2018). Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy and Land Progress report 3. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) , Laxenburg, Austria.