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Taher Kahil

Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar

Water Security Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Biography

Taher Kahil joined IIASA as a Research Scholar with the Water (WAT) Program in September 2015. Dr. Kahil obtained his PhD in economics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2015. His completed PhD dissertation includes the development and use of a hydro-economic model of Spanish basins and the application of cooperative game theory to water resources management. He has been the recipient of a number of scholarships and awards including the FPI-INIA PhD scholarship of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the award for the best PhD dissertation in economics at the University of Zaragoza.

His research interests are in the areas of integrated biophysical economics modeling for basin scale water policy analysis, the economics of water allocation and water quality, and evaluation of adaptation policy interventions to global changes in water and agriculture. At IIASA, Dr. Kahil leads the development of the large-scale hydro-economic modeling framework (ECHO). He is currently involved in a number of international research projects on water-food-energy nexus management, upscaling of sustainable intensification practices, and disaster risk reduction. He has published over 40 publications including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and policy briefs. He is a topic editor at the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI). Dr. Kahil was appointed Research Group Leader of the newly formed Water Security research group at IIASA, as of January 2021.


Last update: 09 OCT 2020

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Strokal, M., Kahil, T. , Wada, Y. , Albiac, J., Bai, Z., Ermolieva, T., Langan, S., Ma, L., Oenema, O., Wagner, F. , Zhu, X., & Kroeze, C. (2020). Cost-effective management of coastal eutrophication: A case study for the yangtze river basin. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 154 e104635. 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104635.

Tramberend, S. , Burtscher, R. , Burek, P. , Kahil, T. , Fischer, G., Mochizuki, J. , Kimwaga, R., Nyenje, P., Ondiek, R., Nakawuka, P., Hyandye, C., Sibomana, C., Luoga, H.P., Matano, A.S., Langan, S. , & Wada, Y. (2020). Data related to research project: East Africa Water Scenarios to 2050.

Karousakis, K., Gruere, G., Chateau, J., Adenauer, M., Guerrero, S., Havlik, P. , Dieckmann, U. , Kahil, T. , Leclere, D., Rovenskaya, E. , Valin, H. , & Wada, Y. (2020). A Concerted Approach to Biodiversity, Water, Food, and Trade. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 49-56 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.

Burek, P. , Satoh, Y., Kahil, T. , Tang, T. , Greve, P., Smilovic, M. , Guillaumot, L. , Zhao, F., & Wada, Y. (2020). Development of the Community Water Model (CWatM v1.04) – a high-resolution hydrological model for global and regional assessment of integrated water resources management. Geoscientific Model Development 13 (7) 3267-3298. 10.5194/gmd-13-3267-2020.

Buckle, S., Mirabile, M., Jaber, A.A., Lanzi, E., Dellink, R., Symes, W., Elgouacem, A., Henderson, B., van Ruijven, B. , Dieckmann, U. , Havlik, P. , Kahil, T. , Riahi, K. , Wada, Y. , Wagner, F. , & Kishimoto, P. (2020). Integrated Policies for Climate, Air, Ecosystems, Energy and Transport. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 57-66 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.