Schröter CV
Keynote Presentations from the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009
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Speaker: Dagmar Schröter Dagmar.Schroeter -at- gmail.com International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria and Umweltbundesamt, Spittelauer Lände 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria Personal homepage |
Title of the talk: Ecosystem services and global change - The environmental dimension of human vulnerability (pdf: 2MB)
Biosketch
Since June 2009 Dagmar Schröter is guest research scholar in the Risk & Vulnerability Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). She is scientific coordinator of the European Era-Net CIRCLE (Climate Impact Research Coordination for a Larger Europe) and an expert on global change and ecosystem services in the Department of Climate Change and Environmental Impact Assessment of the Federal Environment Agency (Vienna, Austria). From 2005-2008 she wass also a research fellow at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University (Worcester, USA), which is dedicated to research on the fundamental question: what is and ought to be our relationship with nature? Until June 2005 she was visiting research fellow in the Science, Environment and Development Group at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). Prior to this, Dagmar was affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department of Global Change & Natural Systems (Potsdam, Germany). She directed the European Vulnerability Assessment Project ATEAM, a European Union funded large-scale research initiative led by PIK that was completed in 2005. Dagmar obtained her PhD in ecosystems' research in 2001 at Gießen University, Department of Animal Ecology, Germany, combining field research and numerical modelling. Prior to this she studied biology at the Technical University, Aachen, Germany. Her research interests are human-environment interactions, global change vulnerability assessment, ecological food web modelling and the carbon and nitrogen cycle. Her ultimate research goal is to make environmental sciences useful in interdisciplinary dialogues on sustainable management of the human-environment system.
