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Dr. Jill Jäger
Senior Researcher
Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria

Garnisongasse 7/27
A-1090 Vienna,
Austria

Tel: +43 1-969-0728-10
Fax: +43 1-969-0728-17
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Jill Jäger is a senior researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute in Vienna, Austria. Her projects there include a range of activities related to scientist-practitioner dialogues on sustainability, as well as on integrated sustainability assessment. She was Executive Director of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) until November 2002. Jäger received her B.Sc. degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia (UK) in 1971. The University of Colorado (USA) awarded her a Ph.D. in geography (climatology) in 1974. She has worked as a consultant on energy, environment, and climate for numerous national and international organizations, including: the Federal German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Berlin; the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; the International Meteorological Institute, University of Stockholm; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris; the Canadian Government; the Commonwealth Secretariat, London; the Beijer Institute and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm. In November 1991 Jäger became Director of the Climate Policy Division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany. In September 1994 she joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) as Deputy Director for Programs, where she was responsible for the implementation and coordination of the research program. From October 1996 until May 1998 she was Deputy Director of IIASA. Jäger's main fields of interest are the linkages between science and policy in the development of responses to global environmental issues. She was a member of the core faculty of the Global Environmental Assessment Project (GEA) at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is co-editor of Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks (MIT Press, 2001).


This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
   Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
   Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)

This Network Member is classified within these Core Themes:
Guidance (institutions and incentives)
Cities
Indicators and monitoring
                                                     
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