Research
This video briefly tells about my research.
My research line focuses on exploring how behavioral change at micro level may lead to critical transitions (tipping points/regime shifts/non-marginal changes) on macro level in complex adaptive human-environment systems in application to climate change economics. Currently this research line evolves around two major themes:
Research Projects
I. Economics of climate change adaptation
II. Economics of climate change mitigation
III. Agent-based modelling: methodological
If you would like to pursue your PhD research on a topic connected to this research line at the CSTM Department of the University of Twente, please send me an email with (1) a brief statement of your topic of interest, (2) your CV, and (3) funding options.
My research line focuses on exploring how behavioral change at micro level may lead to critical transitions (tipping points/regime shifts/non-marginal changes) on macro level in complex adaptive human-environment systems in application to climate change economics. Currently this research line evolves around two major themes:
- Economics of climate change adaptation: this research focuses on studying economic choices under the conditions of uncertainty where climate-driven natural hazards such as floods or droughts are present. I focus there on modeling the emergence of abrupt structural changes from the bottom up due to behavioral change either triggered by individual adaptation and learning or social amplification of risk. The broader scientific goal is to explore the effects of adaptive economic behavior in complex coupled human-environment systems, providing new policy support tools for climate adaptation. See NWO VENI and NWO DID MIRACLE projects as well as the corresponding work of PhD students;
- Economics of climate change mitigation: the study aims to explore how economic system may evolve in line with environmental system exhibiting tipping points and abrupt irreversible changes driven by changing climate. In collaboration with other scholars I am studying how changes in households energy consumption behavior lead to the emergence of structural shifts in energy demand. In addition, the diffusion of low-carbon technologies on the energy supply side will be explored. We extend the conventional economic approach by explicitly modeling social interactions, out-of equilibrium behavior, bounded rationality and heterogeneity. See EU FP7 COMPLEX project and the corresponding PhD project. There is a connection to climate mitigation within the US NSF SLUCE II project.
Research Projects
I. Economics of climate change adaptation
II. Economics of climate change mitigation
III. Agent-based modelling: methodological
If you would like to pursue your PhD research on a topic connected to this research line at the CSTM Department of the University of Twente, please send me an email with (1) a brief statement of your topic of interest, (2) your CV, and (3) funding options.