In the project Layers of Natural Resource Extraction, we develop and apply new methods to assess the impacts of resource extraction. New Bayesian methods allow us to better capture and analyze the economic, environmental and social layers of these impacts, and help us better understand the interconnections between them and across time and space.
Research
- Kuschnig, N., Vashold, L., Soterroni, A., and Obersteiner, M. (2023). Eroding Resilience of Deforestation Interventions — Evidence from Brazil’s Lost Decade. Environmental Research Letters, 18(7):074039, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acdfe7.
Work-in-progress
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Luckeneder, S., Maus, V., Siqueira-Gay, J. Krisztin, T., and Kuhn, M.: Transient Economic Benefit and Persistent Forest Loss: Legacy of the Brazilian Mining Sector Across Regions. Under review.
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Sepin, P., Kuschnig, N., and Vashold, L.: Mapping Mining Areas in the Tropics from 2016–2024. Working paper, under review.
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Vashold, L., Pirich, G., Heinze, M., and Kuschnig, N.: Mines–Rivers–Yields: Downstream Mining Impacts on Agriculture in Africa. Working paper, under review.
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Kuschnig, N.: Networks in Space – Spillovers in Amazon Deforestation. Work in progress, Slides.
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Kuschnig, N. and Vashold, L.: Man Eats Forest: Impacts of Cattle Ranching on Amazon Deforestation. Work in progress, Slides.
Team
- Nikolas Kuschnig – Principal Investigator
- Stefan Giljum – Principal Investigator
- Lukas Vashold – Researcher
- Sebastian Luckeneder – Researcher
- Maximilian Heinze – Research Assistant
- Philipp Sepin – Research Assistant
- Gustav Pirich – Research Assistant
Get in touch
Nikolas Kuschnig (nikolas.kuschnig@wu.ac.at)
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria