Ping Yowargana
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Ping Yowargana joined IIASA in 2014 after finishing his tenure as energy sector coordinator for the Indonesian President's Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4). At IIASA, his work focuses on enhancing the policy relevance of scientific assessments in the fields of nature-based solutions and sustainable energy in the tropics. He is co-principal investigator of the RESTORE+ project, which is among the most ambitious externally funded projects at IIASA with multifaceted objectives surrounding the topic of forest and landscape restoration.Ping leads RESTORE+ activities in Indonesia where the project team are working on, among others, building mobile and web-based platforms for participatory restoration potential assessment, estimating biophysical potential of agroforestry and forest restoration options, assessing socio-ecological trade-offs of restoration as a land use option, and supporting national policymakers in formulating sustainable land use policies. He also leads the work on spatially explicit power sector assessment for Indonesia, which aims at analytical integration between land use and energy system modeling.
He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in socio-ecological economics and policy from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Last update: 27 OCT 2021
Publications
Hadi, H., Krasovskii, A. , Maus, V. , Yowargana, P., Pietsch, S. , & Rautiainen, M. (2018). The potential of Landsat time series to characterize historical dynamic and monitor future disturbances in human-modified rainforests of Indonesia. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 9-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.
Mosnier, A., Boere, E., Reumann, A., Yowargana, P., Pirker, J., Havlik, P. , & Pacheo, P. (2018). Suitability map for industrial-scale oil palm cultivation for Indonesia.
Mosnier, A., Boere, E., Reumann, A., Yowargana, P., Pirker, J., Havlik, P. , & Pacheco, P. (2017). Palm oil and likely futures: Assessing the potential impacts of zero deforestation commitments and a moratorium on large-scale oil palm plantations in Indonesia. CIFOR Infobrief (177) 10.17528/cifor/006468.
Mesfun, S. , Leduc, S., Patrizio, P., Yowargana, P., & Kraxner, F. (2017). Spatio-temporal Assessment of Integrating Intermittent Electricity in the EU Power Sector. In: SEEP2017, 27-30 June 2017, Bled, Slovenia.
Kraxner, F., Leduc, S., Serrano Leon, H., Fuß, S., Patrizio, P., & Yowargana, P. (2016). Expanding renewable energy within the Alpine ecological
network. In: Alpine Nature 2030 Creating [ecological] connectivity for generations to come. Eds. Plassmann, G., Kohler, Y., Badura, M., & Walzer, C., pp. 93-97 Berlin: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). ISBN 978-3-00-053702-8