Maria Schwab

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Vulnerability Assessment Section

Tasks in the WISDOM project

• PhD research in work package WP 5000

Working areas

• Rural development
• Coping and adaptation processes
• Vulnerability and risk reduction

Scientific / Professional career

• 1/2011 - present PhD scholar at UNU-EHS, Bonn (Germany)
• 10/2004 – 7/2010 Studies of Geography, Sociology and Environmental Economics at University of Bonn (Germany), University of Southampton (UK), and University of Augsburg (Germany)
• 2/2010 – 12/2010 Research assistant at the German Development Institute, Bonn (Germany)
• 9/2009 – 12/2009 Field research (Diploma thesis) in cooperation with GTZ Cambodia
• 11/2008 – 9/2009 Research assistant at the Institute for Ecological Economics, Berlin (Germany)
• 10/2008 – 8/2009 Research assistant at the Department for Geographic Development Studies, Free University of Berlin (Germany)

Contact:

Mail:schwab(at)ehs.unu.edu