Elisa Calliari
Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Elisa Calliari is a social and political scientist working in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program, which she joined in 2022 after being awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for her project ITHACA (Planned Relocation as Adaptation in a Changing Climate). Her research explores the role of institutions and governance arrangements in supporting climate change adaptation and the emerging policy field of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.Before joining IIASA, she worked as a senior research fellow at the Department of Political Science at University College London (2018-2022) where she co-led cross-national comparative research on domestic loss and damage policymaking, with a specific focus on developing countries (Fiji, Peru, and Tuvalu), and analyzed loss and damage negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). From 2013 to 2018 she was a researcher at the Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategy division of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), where she contributed to several large-scale international projects on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Europe and beyond (Caribbean Small Island Developing States, Mexico, Paraguay, Uganda).
Calliari has also been involved in policy-oriented research efforts, like co-authoring the Italian Climate Change Adaptation Plan, the 2017 Science for Disaster Risk Management Report of the European Union, and acted as expert on adaptation in transnational regions for the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation. She has been providing technical advice to the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition on loss and damage since March 2022 and is a member of the Italian delegation to the UNFCCC.
She has a background in International Relations and Diplomacy (MSc, University of Trieste, Italy), a specialization in Environmental Economics and Management (MSc, Bocconi University, Italy), and holds a PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy).
Last update: 20 MAR 2023
Publications
Vanhala, L., Calliari, E., & Thomas, A. (2023). Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage. Global Environmental Politics 23 (3) 1-11. 10.1162/glep_e_00735.
Calliari, E. & Ryder, B. (2023). What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions. Global Environmental Politics 23 (3) 71-94. 10.1162/glep_a_00725.
Mechler, R. , Calliari, E., Bouwer, L., Schinko, T. , Surminski, S., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Aerts, J., Botzen, W., Boyd, E., Deckard, N., Fuglestvedt, J.S., González-Eguino, M., Haasnoot, M., Handmer, J., Haque, M., Heslin, A., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Huggel, C., Huq, S., James, R., Jones, R.G., Juhola, S., Keating, A., Kienberger, S., Kreft, S., Kuik, O., Landauer, M., Laurien, F. , Lawrence, J., Lopez, A., Liu, W. , Magnuszewski, P., Markandya, A., Mayer, B., McCallum, I. , McQuistan, C., Meyer, L., Mintz-Woo, K. , Montero-Colbert, A., Mysiak, J., Nalau, J., Noy, I., Oakes, R., Otto, F.E.L., Pervin, M., Roberts, E., Schäfer, L., Scussolini, P., Serdeczny, O., de Sherbinin, A., Simlinger, F., Sitati, A., Sultana, S., Young, H.R., van der Geest, K., van den Homberg, M., Wallimann-Helmer, I., Warner, K., & Zommers, Z. (2018). Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions. In: Loss and Damage from Climate Change. Eds. Mechler, R. , Bouwer, L., Schinko, T. , Surminski, S., & Linnerooth-Bayer, J., pp. 3-37 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-72025-8 10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_1.
Calliari, E. (2016). Loss and damage: a critical discourse analysis of Parties’ positions in climate change negotiations. Journal of Risk Research 1-23. 10.1080/13669877.2016.1240706.
Mysiak, J., Calliari, E., Aerts, J., Lasage, R., Koks, E., Surminski, S., & Mechler, R. (2016). Synthesis and policy recommendations. In: Novel Multi-Sector Partnerships in Disaster Risk Management. Results of the ENHANCE project. Eds. Aerts, Jeroen & Mysiak, Jaroslav, pp. 131-146 Brussels, Belgium: EU FP7 project ENHANCE.