Nicklas Forsell
Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Nicklas Forsell is a senior research scholar in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He devoted over a decade to scientific work in a variety of areas, including: systemic thinking, sustainability, climate change, climate legislation, economics, governance and greenhouse gas reporting.His research experience stretches from biophysical modeling in the areas of ecosystems, forestry, and agriculture to economics, finance, and integrated assessment. He has successfully conducted projects for international organizations such as the International Energy Agency (IEA), governmental bodies such as the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action and Environment, and the US Environmental Protection Agency and international companies.
He obtained a PhD in Forest Economics from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Toulouse.
Last update: 02 AUG 2023
Publications
Eriksson, L.O., Forsell, N., Eggers, J., & Snäll, T. (2020). Downscaling of Long-Term Global Scenarios to Regions with a Forest Sector Model. Forests 11 (5) e500. 10.3390/f11050500.
Energy Foundation China, (2020). Synthesis Report 2020 on China’s Carbon Neutrality: China’s New Growth Pathway: from the 14th Five Year Plan to Carbon Neutrality. Energy Foundation China , Beijing, China.
Forsell, N., Korosuo, A., Gusti, M., Rüter, S., Havlik, P. , & Obersteiner, M. (2019). Impact of modelling choices on setting the reference levels for the EU forest carbon sinks: how do different assumptions affect the country-specific forest reference levels? Carbon Balance and Management 14 (1) e10. 10.1186/s13021-019-0125-9.
Sohngen, B., Forsell, N., Latta, G., & Baker, J.S. (2019). State of the Art Methods to Project Forest Carbon Stocks. Journal of Forest Economics 34 (1-2) 1-5. 10.1561/112.00000440.
Nordström, E.-M., Nieuwenhuis, M., Başkent, E., Biber, P., Black, K., Borges, J.G., Bugalho, M., Corradini, G., Corrigan, E., Eriksson, L., Felton, A., Forsell, N., Hengeveld, G., Hoogstra-Klein, M., Korosuo, A., Lindbladh, M., Lodin, I., Lundholm, A., Marto, M., Masiero, M., Mozgeris, G., Pettenella, D., Poschenrieder, W., Sedmak, R., Tucek, J., & Zoccatelli, D. (2019). Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios. European Journal of Forest Research 138 (4) 561-581. 10.1007/s10342-019-01189-z.