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Integrated Assessment Models – incorporating behaviours and social factors.

On Thursday 24th October at 4pm the Sustainable Gas institute and Energy Futures Lab will host a seminar from Dr Oreane Edelenbosch works at the Politechnico di Milano to discuss her work on incorporating behaviours and social factors in Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs).

Abstract

Dr Oreane Edelenbosch works at the Politechnico di Milano and at the newly found European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE).

The EIEE research group (formerly part of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) developed the integrated assessment model WITCH, which has been involved in many global studies assessing climate change mitigation pathways, such as the recently developed Shared Socio Economic Pathways.

Her work at the Politechnico has focussed on incorporating behavioural effects in the representation of long-term energy demand sector development. Integrated Assessment Models have been criticized for focusing mainly on financial factors affecting energy choice while neglecting behavioural and social aspects. Under the Cobham ERC grant large household surveys were combined with a collection of metered energy data to better grasp these behavioural drivers of demand.

The team have also worked closely with behavioural economists to better understand consumer heterogeneity and complex dynamics of individual decision making, and have incorporate this in long-term energy choice models (such as the MUSE Residential model).

Biography

Dr Oreane Edelenbosch is currently a post doc researcher at the Polytechnic University of Milan. Previously she worked at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2012-2017), where she was involved in internationally funded research projects, such as the FP7 project ADVANCE, and contributing also to the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2017.

During her work at PBL, she obtained the Ph.D. at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of the Utrecht University, and she visited the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna for a three-month period.

Her main topic of interest is energy efficiency in global scenarios, assessing energy consumption reduction in the largest energy intensive sectors (buildings, transport and industry). Her current work focuses on modelling the impacts of behaviour and heterogeneity on efficient energy use.

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