Michael Obersteiner
Principal Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Michael Obersteiner is director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. He first joined IIASA as part of the former Forestry Program in 1993. He was Program Director of the former IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program until June 2019, where he led and developed the ESM Program from its inception to an inter-disciplinary research cluster of over 100 staff. His background includes the fields of global terrestrial ecosystems and economics, having completed graduate studies both in Austria (BOKU University and the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna) and abroad (Columbia University, New York, and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk). His current research at IIASA stretches from modeling robust Earth system management and supporting the FABLE consortium, to economic stress-testing of supply chain networks.Obersteiner has led large scale interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of integrated assessment of climate, energy, and land-use. He is the author of over 300 scientific papers covering a very wide range of science fields. He currently serves in the Climate Overshoot Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s international resource panel. In addition, he is a lead convening author of two chapters of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and a steering member of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)'s Global Assessment Report.
Last update: 28 NOV 2023
Publications
Jung, M., Boucher, T.M., Wood, S.A., Folberth, C. , Wironen, M., Thornton, P., Bossio, D., & Obersteiner, M. (2024). A global clustering of terrestrial food production systems. PLoS ONE 19 (2) e0296846. 10.1371/journal.pone.0296846.
Douzal, C., Chemarin, C., Mosnier, A., Orduña-Cabrera, F. , Jones, S., Adenäuer, L., Vittis, Y., Cozza, D., Diaz, M., Javalera Rincón, V. , Rios, A., Sandoval-Gastelum, M., Sanchez, A., Navarrete Frias, C., Obersteiner, M. , Declerck, F., Frank, F., Monjeau, A., Bertranou, C., Navarro Garcia, J., Marcos-Martinez, R., Costa, W., Ramos, F., Reyes, R., Zerriffi, H., Paradis, G., Maloney, A., Chavarro, J., Peña, A., Arguello, R., Escobar, J., Marimon Bolivar, W., Højte, S., Skou Fertin, R., Fraas, E., Nyord, T., Getaneh, Y., Nigussie, Y., Bekele, M., Mulatu, K., Abera, W., Balcha, Y., Anshiso, D., Mohammed, J., Assefa, B., Kebede, K., Eshetae, M., Hamza, T., Tesfaye, G., Tamene, L., Lehtonen, H., Rämö, J., Rasche, L., Schneider, U., Steinhauser, J. , Landis, C., Dellis, K., Ioannou, A., Chatzigiannakou, M., Laspidou, C., Koundouri, P., Saha, A., Singh, V., Das, P., Joshi, A., Jha, C., Ghosh, R., Lotze-Campen, H., Stevanović, M., Fuad, H., Gonzalez-Abraham, C., Olguín, M., Rodriguez Ramirez, S., McCord, G., Torres-Rojo, J., Flores-Martinez, A., Cardenas Hernandez, O., Avila Ortega, D., Basnet, S., Pradhan, P., Acharya, S., Uprety, R., Pokhrel, P., Khatri, D., Basnet, R., Van Oort, B., Daloz, A.-S., Strokov, A., Imanirareba, D., Hall, M., Fetzer, I., Tacer Caba, Z., Kesici, M., Özuyar, P., Smith, A., Lynch, J., Harrison, P., Jones, S., Whittaker, F., Wu, G., Baker, J., & Wade, C. (2024). FABLE Scenathon database 2023. 10.5281/zenodo.11640826.
FABLE (2024). Transforming food and land systems to achieve the SDGs. In: The SDGs and the UN Summit of the Future. Sustainable Development Report 2024. Eds. Sachs, J.D., Lafortune, G., & Fuller, G., pp. 50-82 Dublin, Ireland: Dublin University Press. ISBN 978-0-903200-18-9 10.25546/108572.
Soterroni, A., Império, M., Scarabello, M., Seddon, N., Obersteiner, M. , Rochedo, P., Schaeffer, R., Andrade, P., Ramos, F., Azevedo, T., Ometto, J., Havlik, P. , & Alencar, A. (2023). Nature‐based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net‐zero emissions by 2050. Global Change Biology 29 7085-7101. 10.1111/gcb.16984.