Nadejda Komendantova
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis
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Biography
Nadejda (Nadya) Komendantova leads the Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group at IIASA and is a senior research scholar in the Advancing Systems Analysis Program as well as professor at the Advanced Management Institute for Science, Technology, and Applied Development Studies in Botswana (AMISTAD). Her research interests include participatory, multi-risk, compromise, negotiation, and cooperation oriented governance for complex policy challenges such as energy security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, technological innovations, health policy, and digitalization. The focus of her research is on governance and decision-making processes under uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and volatility, while incorporating systems thinking into strategic policy planning and addressing social dilemmas and wicked policy issues.Komendantova implemented several projects for the European Commission and for a number of national and international ministries and organizations. She is the author of over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Energy Policy, Natural Hazards, Renewable and Sustainable Energies Reviews, the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk Analysis, and others. She is the lead author of the draft strategy of industrial development of Kyrgyzstan for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and of the handbook on protection of electricity networks from natural hazards for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has been translated into Russian and Arabic. She is also a contributing author to the Global Assessment Report (GAR) and the Global Renewable Energy Report (REN21), as well as the reports of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery of the World Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She has been invited to speak at various policy events and her work has been granted awards from the Academic Council of the United Nations and the Julius Raab Foundation.
Last update: 09 SEP 2022
Publications
Komendantova, N. & Linnerooth-Bayer, J. (2015). Public protests against deployment of electricity transmission infrastructure in Europe: what are successful actions to deal with issues of public acceptance? Evaluation of best practices application, with revisions protocol and action plans. Deliverable 2.4, BESTGRID Project, Brussels
Komendantova, N. & Linnerooth-Bayer, J. (2015). Report on evaluation of quantified indicators, detailing the effects of best practices application for policy-makers and stakeholders. Deliverable 2.5, BESTGRID Project, Brussels
Komendantova, N. & Patt, A. (2014). Employment under vertical and horizontal transfer of concentrated solar power technology to North African countries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 40 1192-1201. 10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.072.
Scolobig, A., Komendantova, N. , Patt, A., Vinchon, C., Monfort-Climent, D., Bengoubou-Valerius, M., Gasparini, P., & Di Ruocco, A. (2014). Multi-risk governance for natural hazards in Naples and Guadeloupe. Natural Hazards 73 (3) 1523-1545. 10.1007/s11069-014-1152-1.
Aspinall, W., Bengoubou-Valerius, M., Desramaut, N., Komendantova, N. , Patt, A., & Scolobig, A. (2014). MATRIX Reference Reports. Scientific Technical Report 14/13, FP7 MATRIX Project - New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe (August 2014) 10.2312/GFZ.b103-14137.