EXPERTISE
Profile
Isabel Seifert-Dähnn is one of two research managers in NIVA´s section "Water and Society". Her scientific background is in environmental sciences and economics.
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 drivers is to make NIVA´s research results useful for society, so she seeks close collaboration i.e. with municipalities. To understand socio-environmental-economic systems i.e. how people impact and interact with nature and the other way around drives her investigations.
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 drivers is to make NIVA´s research results useful for society, so she seeks close collaboration i.e. with municipalities. To understand socio-environmental-economic systems i.e. how people impact and interact with nature and the other way around drives her investigations.
Isabel´s international experience covers projects in Sri Lanka, India, China and several European countries.