Thomas Schinko
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Equity and Justice Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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
Steininger, K.W., Lininger, C., Meyer, L.H., Munoz, P., & Schinko, T. (2016). Multiple carbon accounting to support just and effective climate policies. Nature Climate Change 6 (1) 35-41. 10.1038/nclimate2867.
Steininger, K.W. & Schinko, T. (2016). Environmental Policy in an Open Economy: Refocusing Climate Policy to Address International Trade Spillovers. In: Dynamic Approaches to Global Economic Challenges: Festschrift in Honor of Karl Farmer. Eds. Bednar-Friedl, Birgit & Kleinert, Jörn, pp. 171-190 Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-23324-6
Schinko, T. , Mechler, R. , & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2016). A methodological framework to operationalize Climate Risk Management: Managing sovereign climate-related extreme event risk in Austria. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 1-24. 10.1007/s11027-016-9713-0.
Schinko, T. , Borgomeo, E., Dufva, M., Figge, L., & Schipfer, F. (2015). Reshaping Global Change Science for the 21st Century: Young Scientists’ Perspectives. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
Schinko, T. (2015). Governance of Risks in Financing Concentrated Solar Power Investments in North Africa. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-15-002