Jonas Peisker
Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Jonas Peisker is a research scholar at the Equity and Justice Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. In his current research, he empirically investigates the relationships between climate impacts and population outcomes, such as environmental attitudes, voting behavior, and migration in order to help address the barriers to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.He holds a master’s degree in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy and a doctorate in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In his doctoral thesis on contextual determinants of climate change concern in Europe, he studied the impact of socio-economic and environmental factors on popular support for environmental policy.
Last update: 02 JUL 2024
Publications
United Nations Population Fund, University of Vienna, & International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (2024). Climate Change Impacts and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. United Nations Population Fund , Johannesburg.
Peisker, J. & Schinko, T. (2023). Yes we can? Effects of a participatory visioning process on perceived climate efficacy. Frontiers in Climate 5 e1129789.. 10.3389/fclim.2023.1129789.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Zhu, Q., Ciullo, A., Peisker, J. , & Van den Hurk, B. (2023). Differential Fiscal Performances of Plausible Disaster Events: A Storyline Approach for the Caribbean and Central American Governments under CCRIF. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 10.1007/s41885-023-00126-0.
Peisker, J. (2023). Context matters: The drivers of environmental concern in European regions. Global Environmental Change 79 e102636. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102636.
Hoffmann, R., Muttarak, R. , Peisker, J. , & Stanig, P. (2022). Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting. Nature Climate Change 12 (2) 148-155. 10.1038/s41558-021-01263-8.