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Wolfgang Schöpp

Guest Senior Research Scholar

Pollution Management Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment Program

Biography

Wolfgang Schöpp first joined IIASA's Industrial Structural Change Project in June 1983 as a Research Assistant. Later he moved to the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (AIR) Program (previously MAG Program) as a Scientific Programmer. In January 1992 he received an appointment as Research Scholar, and is currently working on extending the effect side of the GAINS model using econometric and environmental methods as well as database design.

In 1982 Dr. Schöpp received a degree in mathematics from the Technical University of Vienna. His interests in statistics and economy are now directed towards environmental modeling, in particular biophysical systems and decision-oriented computer applications. Dr. Schöpp received his PhD in economics in 1998 from the State University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Last update: 15 APR 2016

Publications

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Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Schöpp, W. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Rafaj, P. , Purohit, P. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Wagner, F. , Heyes, C. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Nguyen, B. , Sander, R. , & Warnecke, L. (2025). Chapter 1: Bringing Clean Air, Better Health, A Stable Climate and Other Benefits to the ASEAN Region. In: Clean Air and Climate Solutions for ASEAN. Eds. United Nations Environment Programme, pp. 1-17 United Nations Environment Programme. ISBN 9789280742138 10.59117/20.500.11822/47268.

World Bank (2025). Clean Air for Hanoi: What will it Take? World Bank

DoEFCC & World Bank (2025). Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Plan: Airshed based air quality analysis and recommendations. Department of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (DoEFCC), Government of Uttar Pradesh, India and the World Bank , Washington, D.C..

Purohit, P. , Kiesewetter, G. , Schöpp, W. , Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Heyes, C. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Srivastava, P., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , & Amann, M. (2024). Cost-effective control of air pollution in South Asia: modeling and policy applications. Environmental Research Communications 6 (12) e125017. 10.1088/2515-7620/ad9b74.

Adhikary, M., Saikia, N., Purohit, P. , Canudas‐Romo, V., & Schöpp, W. (2024). Air Pollution and Mortality in India: Investigating the Nexus of Ambient and Household Pollution Across Life Stages. GeoHealth 8 (8) e2023GH000968. 10.1029/2023GH000968.