Susanne Hanger-Kopp

Senior Research Scholar

Equity and Justice Research Group

Population and Just Societies Program

Biography

Susanne Hanger-Kopp is part of the Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. She has 15 years of research and teaching experience in the areas of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management and has in parallel also worked on the energy transition. At IIASA, she has a leading role in developing the IIASA/EQU justice framework, which is instrumental in promoting comprehensive justice assessment in research and policy.

Her analytical focus lies on governance and institutional development, but she also has experience with behavioral approaches. Most importantly, she is a knowledge integrator, designing and facilitating inter- and transdisciplinary research projects. For this purpose, she is invested in developing and promoting qualitative systems mapping as an indispensable tool to support systems thinking across disciplines, sectors, and subject matters.

Hanger-Kopp has been chapter lead author for the Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022, and Lead Author for the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC) Assessment Report on Climate Change in Austria (AAR2).

Hanger-Kopp received her PhD from the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, where she is currently a lecturer in the Climate Policy Lab.

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Publications

Berkhout, F., Bouwer, L.M., Bayer, J., Bouzid, M., Cabeza, M., Hanger, S., Hof, A., Hunter, P., Meller, L., Patt, A., Pfluger, B., Rayner, T., Reichardt, K., & van Teeffelen, A. (2015). Editorial - European policy responses to climate change: progress on mainstreaming emissions reduction and adaptation. Regional Environmental Change 15 (6) 949-959. 10.100/s10113-015-0801-6.

Hanger, S., Haug, C., Lung, T., & Bouwer, L.M. (2015). Mainstreaming climate change in regional development policy in Europe: Five insights from the 2007-013 programming period. Regional Environmental Change 15 (6) 973-985. 10.1007/s10113-013-0549-9.

Keating, A., Mechler, R. , Mochizuki, J. , Kunreuther, H., Bayer, J., Hanger, S., McCallum, I. , See, L. , Williges, K., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , & Egan, C. (2014). Operationalizing Resilience Against Natural Disaster Risk: Opportunities, Barriers, and a Way Forward. Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance

Hanger, S., Steinhilbner, S., & Pfluger, B. (2013). Enhancing synergies between European renewables and regional development policies. RESPONSES Project , The Netherlands.

Patt, A., Rayner, T., Berkhout, F., Bouwer, L.M., Hanger, S., & Schleich, J. (2013). Guidance on a Strategic Climate Assessment Approach. Deliverable 9.4, FP7 RESPONSES Project - European Responses to Climate Change (3 April 2013)