Kristina Yuzva
Junior researcher
Environmental Economics
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
Netherlands
Biography
Kristina Yuzva is a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies at the VU University Amsterdam. She has a multi-disciplinary academic background having completed a Master’s in Public Administration and Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Canada. She has been involved on a number of adaptation-oriented projects including working as a Congress and Publications assistant for the “2nd Annual World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change” for ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability. In her role as a publication assistant, she wrote two introductory chapters and edited the book, “Resilient Cities: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change - Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011.” Aside from this, she has worked as a research assistant for the United Nations University- Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS): Environment Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation Section (EMSVA) where she coordinated and wrote a background literature review to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change SBI Work Programme on loss and damage distributed at four regional workshops across the globe. She is also a contributing author for the Working Group II for the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. Currently, she is working as a project associate for the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) hosted at UNU-EHS in close collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The project aims to develop a strategic framework for low income countries and emerging economies in finding ways to implement climate risk insurance solutions in an integrated climate risk management approach. Kristina Yuzva will work on a PhD project that aims to devise a theoretical framework and build an evidence base on how risk transfer instruments can be tailored to incentivize risk reduction and build climate resilience for low-income households in the Caribbean within the broader domain of risk management and economics of adaptation.
Research Interest
Environmental Economics
Publications
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Yuzva, K. (2012). Chapter 3, Introduction: Toward the resilient city. In Otto-Zimmerman, K., Resilientcities: cities and adaptation to climate change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011. (pp. 37-52). Local Sustainability, vol. 2. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York.
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Yuzva, K. (2012). Chapter 2, Introduction: Urban risk and assessing vulnerability at the local level. In Otto-Zimmerman, K., Resilientcities: cities and adaptation to climate change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011. (pp. 11-13). Local Sustainability, vol. 2. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York.
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Oliver-Smith, A., Cutter, S., Warner, K., Corendea, C. & Kristina Yuzva. (2012) Addressing loss and damage in the context of social vulnerability and resilience. Policy Brief Series No. 7. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Bonn.
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Warner, K., Yuzva, K., Zissener, M., Gille, S., Voss, J. & Wanczeck, S. (forthcoming). Innovative insurance solutions for climate change: how to integrate climate risk insurance into a comprehensive climate risk management approach. Working Paper. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Bonn.
