Esther Boere
Guest Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Esther Boere is an agricultural economist in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. Her research focuses on modeling and analyzing driving factors of land use change and their consequences on the agricultural and forestry sectors at a regional and global scale using the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM). Topics of application in her work include the effects of gradual climate change and extreme weather events at the European and global scale, and the development of regional- and country-level impact assessment modeling. She has developed country-specific versions of GLOBIOM for Ethiopia and Indonesia tailored to analyzing respectively smallholder-specific policies aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity; and the trade-offs between intensification, conservation and restoration policies on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), as well as the agriculture and forestry sectors.Boere received her PhD from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Focusing on land use changes and accounting for the role of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy-reform, she developed econometric (panel data and duration) and mathematical programming models.
Last update: 16 MAY 2022
Publications
van Ginkel, K.C.H., Botzen, W.J.W., Haasnoot, M., Bachner, G., Steininger, K.W., Hinkel, J., Watkiss, P., Boere, E., Jeuken, A., de Murieta, E.S., & Bosello, F. (2020). Climate change induced socio-economic tipping points: review and stakeholder consultation for policy relevant research. Environmental Research Letters 15 (2) e023001. 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6395.
Ermolieva, T., Havlik, P. , Boere, E., Balkovic, J. , Skalsky, R. , Folberth, C. , Khabarov, N. , Fritz, S. , Obersteiner, M. , & Ermoliev, Y. (2019). A strategic decision–support system for strategic robust adaptation to climate change and systemic risks in land use systems: Stochastic integrated assessment GLOBIOM model. In: Integrated modeling”: the case of the food-water-energy-environmental NEXUS management under uncertainty and risk, 26-27 November 2019, Brussels.
FABLE (2019). Pathways to Sustainable Land-Use and Food Systems. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) , Laxenburg and Paris.
Ermolieva, T., Boere, E., Biewald, A., Havlik, P. , Mosnier, A., Leclere, D., Valin, H. , Frank, S. , Obersteiner, M. , & Ermoliev, Y. (2019). Addressing climate change adaptation with a stochastic integrated assessment model: Analysis of common agricultural policy measures. Financial Statistics Journal 1 (2) 10.24294/fsj.v1i2.913.
COACCH, (2019). The Economic Cost of Climate Change in Europe: Synthesis Report on COACCH Interim Results. Policy brief by the COACCH project. COACCH: CO-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs.