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
Leclere, D., Obersteiner, M. , Butchart, S.H.M., Chaudhary, A., De Palma, A., DeClerk, F.A., Di Marco, M., Dürauer, M., Doelman, J.C., Freeman, R., Harfoot, M., Hasegawa, T., Hellweg, S., Hilbers, J., Hill, S., Humpenöder, F., Jennings, N., Krisztin, T. , Mace, G., Ohashi, H., Popp, A., Purvis, A., Schipper, A., Tabeau, A., Valin, H. , van Meijl, H., van Zeist, W.J., Visconti, P., Alkemade, R., Almond, R., Bunting, G., Burgess, N.D., Cornell, S.E., Di Fulvio, F. , Ferrier, S., Fritz, S. , Fujimori, S. , Grooten, M., Harwood, T., Havlik, P. , Herrero, M., Hoskins, A., Jung, M., Kram, T., Lotze-Campen, H., Matsui, T., Meyer, C., Nel, D., Newbold, T., Schmidt-Traub, G., Stehfest, E., Strassburg, B., van Duuren, D., Ware, C., Watson, J., Wu, W., & Young, L. (2019). Supporting material for the article entitled “Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy”.
Leclere, D., Obersteiner, M. , Alkemade, R., Almond, R., Barrett, M., Bunting, G., Burgess, N., Butchart, S., Chaudhary, A., Cornell, S., De Palma, A., DeClerck, F., Di Fulvio, F. , Di Marco, M., Doelman, J., Dürauer, M., Ferrier, S., Freeman, R., Fritz, S. , Fujimori, S. , Grooten, M., Harfoot, M., Harwood, T., Hasegawa, T., Havlik, P. , Hellweg, S., Herrero, M., Hilbers, J., Hill, S., Hoskins, A., Humpenöder, F., Kram, T., Krisztin, T. , Lotze-Campen, H., Mace, G., Matsui, T., Meyer, C., Nel, D., Newbold, T., Ohashi, H., Popp, A., Purvis, A., Schipper, A., Schmidt-Traub, G., Stehfest, E., Strassburg, B., Tabeau, A., Valin, H. , van Meijl, H., van Vuuren, D., van Zeist, W., Visconti, P., Ware, C., Watson, J., Wu, W., & Young, L. (2019). Reversing terrestrial biodiversity declines due to habitat loss: a multi-model assessment. In: International Congress for Conservation Biology, 21-25 July 2019.
Wildemeersch, M. , Ermolieva, T., Ermoliev, T., & Obersteiner, M. (2019). An integrated environmental-economic model for robust pollution control under uncertainty. In: Integrated modeling”: the case of the food-water-energy-environmental NEXUS management under uncertainty and risk, 26-27 November 2019, Brussels.
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.
Eker, S. , Reese, G., & Obersteiner, M. (2019). Modelling the drivers of a widespread shift to sustainable diets. In: World Resources Forum, 23-24 October 2019, Geneva, Switzerland.