Julia Beier
Researcher
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Julia Beier joined the Equity and Justice Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program as a researcher in 2022.Her research interests include social-ecological transformation pathways, transformative climate adaptation, the social implications of climate change, provisioning systems, and post-growth approaches.
Beier currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)-funded Transform-Labor project, examining how political-economic, institutional, socio-cultural, and socio-technical conditions cause climate vulnerability among workers in essential provisioning systems, as well as the potential for transformative adaptation across governance levels. She also contributes to the COIN 2.0 project, investigating the vulnerability and wellbeing implications of climate inaction across dimensions such as labor, energy poverty, and care. Previously, as part of the DISCC-AT project, she explored intersectional vulnerability to heat stress and floods in Austria.
She is particularly interested in qualitative social science, qualitative systems analysis, mixed-methods approaches, political economy research, and inter- and transdisciplinary research processes, combining perspectives from ecological economics and social ecology.
Beier holds an MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and is pursuing a PhD in the Department of Social Ecology at BOKU University, Austria.
Last update: 13 MAY 2026
Publications
Beier, J., Preinfalk, E., & Hanger-Kopp, S. (2024). Identifying archetypes of climate vulnerability: A mixed-methods approach for heat and flood related risk in Austria. In: EGU General Assembly 2024, 14-19 April 2024, Vienna.
Beier, J., Hanger-Kopp, S., & Kwhang-Gil Lemke, L. (2023). Integrative Qualitative Systems Mapping (IQSM) approach for knowledge integration in transdisciplinary research. In: adaptation futures 2023, 2-6 October, 2023, Montreal, Canada.
Beier, J. & Hanger-Kopp, S. (2023). Bewässerung in der österreichischen GAP 2023-2027: Ressourcenschonende landwirtschaftliche Produktion im Seewinkel [Irrigation in the Austrian common agricultural policy 2023-2027: Resource-saving agricultural production in the Seewinkel area]. IIASA Policy Brief. Laxenburg, Austria