EXPERTISE
Profile
Isabel Seifert-Dähnn is one of two research managers in NIVA´s section "Water and Society". She has a scientific background in environmental science and economics and has previously worked as a researcher/senior researcher in NIVA.
In the last years her research has concentrated around climate change adaptation, stormwater management in cities, challenges and opportunities for using nature-based-solutions, ecosystem services and sustainable development goals as well as management of water bodies, which are heavily influenced by human use. She combines social science approaches like surveys, multi-criteria assessment and choice experiments with modelling techniques like Bayesian Networks and system dynamics modelling.
One of Isabel's main driving forces is to make NIVA's research results useful to society, and she therefore seeks close collaboration with municipalities, network actors and business. To understand socio-environmental-economic systems i.e. how people impact and interact with nature and the other way around drives her investigations. Isabel is good in bringing people from different fields and sectors together, make them understand each other and build interdisciplinary research proposals based on that.
Isabel´s international experience covers projects in Sri Lanka, India, China and several European countries.
In the last years her research has concentrated around climate change adaptation, stormwater management in cities, challenges and opportunities for using nature-based-solutions, ecosystem services and sustainable development goals as well as management of water bodies, which are heavily influenced by human use. She combines social science approaches like surveys, multi-criteria assessment and choice experiments with modelling techniques like Bayesian Networks and system dynamics modelling.
One of Isabel's main driving forces is to make NIVA's research results useful to society, and she therefore seeks close collaboration with municipalities, network actors and business. To understand socio-environmental-economic systems i.e. how people impact and interact with nature and the other way around drives her investigations. Isabel is good in bringing people from different fields and sectors together, make them understand each other and build interdisciplinary research proposals based on that.
Isabel´s international experience covers projects in Sri Lanka, India, China and several European countries.