Frauke Urban

Biography

 Dr. Frauke Urban is an environmental scientist specialised on the linkages between energy, climate change and development, especially climate change mitigation, low carbon development and energy policy. Her main regional interest is Asia, particularly China and Southeast Asia. She is the Principle Investigator for an ESRC-funded project on China’s rise in the hydropower dam sector and its environmental and social implications in low and middle income countries. Frauke also works as Co-Investigator on another ESRC-funded project on China’s low carbon innovation in the energy sector and she works as Co-Investigator on a project on Green Transformations in the Global South, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the Svenska Riksbanken. Frauke currently teaches in the fields of Environmental Management, Climate Change and Development, Energy and Development. Her research has been published in Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy, Energy for Sustainable Development, Climatic Change, World Development, Development Policy Review, Sustainable Development and other international journals. Frauke works as Reader in Environment and Development at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS. Frauke was Visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Researcher at the University of Heidelberg, Germany; Visiting Researcher at the Mercator Institute for Climate Change and the Global Commons in Berlin, Germany; Visiting Researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Visiting Researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Before joining SOAS she worked as Research Fellow in Climate Change and Development at the Institute of Development Studies IDS at the University of Sussex and as Research Fellow at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Research Interest

Development, Environment and Policy