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Thomas Schinko
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Thomas Schinko is Senior Research Scholar and Research Group Leader of the Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group in the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He is a regular lecturer at the University of Graz and the Joint Vienna Institute.His main research interests at IIASA are in the areas of comprehensive climate risk management and just transitions. He focuses on the assessment of socioeconomic impacts of climate-related risks and their distributional effects, the identification of just and inclusive climate risk management strategies, the understanding of risks and risk perceptions connected with climate change mitigation and adaptation options, and the ethical and politico-economic aspects in the context of a just transition towards a sustainable future.
His areas of expertise include quantitative economic modeling as well as qualitative social science methods with a particular focus on mixed-methods approaches involving participatory processes. He studied economics and environmental system sciences at the University of Graz, Austria and Uppsala University, Sweden.
Last update: 23 FEB 2023
Publications
Mechler, R. , McQuistan, C., McCallum, I. , Liu, W. , Keating, A., Magnuszewski, P., Schinko, T. , Laurien, F. , & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2018). Supporting Climate Risk Management at Scale. Insights from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance Partnership Model Applied in Peru & Nepal. In: Loss and Damage from Climate Change. Eds. Mechler, R. , Bouwer, L., Schinko, T. , Surminski, S., & Linnerooth-Bayer, J., pp. 393-424 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-72025-8 10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_17.
Schinko, T. & Mechler, R. (2017). Applying Recent Insights From Climate Risk Management to Operationalize the Loss and Damage Mechanism. Ecological Economics 136 296-298. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.02.008.
Greve, P., Kahil, T. , Schinko, T. , Mochizuki, J. , Satoh, Y., Burek, P. , Burtscher, R. , Langan, S. , Byers, E. , Florke, M., Eisner, S., Hanasaki, N., & Wada, Y. (2017). Global assessment of water policy vulnerability under uncertainty in water scarcity projections. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017, 23–28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.
Nabernegg, S., Bednar-Friedl, B., Wagner, F. , Schinko, T. , Cofala, J., & Clement, Y.M. (2017). The Deployment of Low Carbon Technologies in Energy Intensive Industries: A Macroeconomic Analysis for Europe, China and India. Energies 10 (3) p. 360. 10.3390/en10030360.
Schinko, T. , Bachner, G., Schleicher, S., & Steinigner, K.W. (2017). Modeling for insights not numbers: The long-term low-carbon transformation. Atmósfera 30 (1) 137-161. 10.20937/ATM.2017.30.02.05.