Mag. Dr. Alina Brad
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Mag. Dr. Alina Brad
Senior Scientist
Contact
Ferstelgasse 5/Top floor, door 25
Room: D 07
1090 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 51
E-Mail: alina.brad@univie.ac.at
Homepages: intpol.univie.ac.at/en/team/mitarbeiterinnen/alina-brad/, www.cdrpolitics.net
- Project leader of the FWF Elise Richter research project The Politics of CDR (2023-2027)
- Co-Project leader of the ACRP research project FOCAL-Points (2023-2026)
- Coordinating leading author of the APCC's Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (2022-2025)
- Member of the Management Board of the Climate Change Center Austria, CCCA
- Member of the Environment and Climate Hub of the University of Vienna
- Member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the University of Vienna
- Member of the Sounding Board of the 'Plattform Dialog für den Wandel' of the Environment Agency Austria
Office hour
After agreement
Teaching
Courses: u:find
Short biography
• Since October 2018: Senior Scientist at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
• 2022-2025: Coordinating Leading Author in the APCC Assessment Report on Climate Change in Austria, AAR2
• 2024: Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Sweden
• 2017-2018: University Assistant (Post Doc) at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
• 2016-2017: Post-Doc Track Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• 2014: Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner, Germany
• 2012-2016: DOC-team fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• 2016: PhD, thesis on the political economy of palm oil production
• 2011: Visiting doctoral student at Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
Research interests
International and EU climate policy, environmental policy, political ecology, carbon dioxide removal, socio-ecological transformations
Current research projects
The Politics of Negative Emissions Technologies in the EU. Deterring Mitigation?
Funded by the FWF Elise Richter Program. Project duration: 2023-2027
Household GHG footprints and Austrian climate policy: identifying leverage points for demand-side mitigation. Funded by the Climate and Energy Fund, ACRP. Project duration: 2022-2025.
Selective bibliography
Journal articles
- Brad, A., Schneider E. 2025. Carbon removal, mitigation deterrence and the politics of target separation. Evidence from the EU 2040 climate target negotiation. Environmental Research Letters 20: 054074.
- Brad, A., Schneider, E., Maneka, D., Hirt, C., Gingrich, S. 2024. The politics of carbon management in Austria: Emerging fault lines on carbon capture, storage, utilization and removal. Energy Research & Social Science, 16: 103687.
- Haas, T., Brad, A., Schneider, E. 2024. Mit CCS zur Klimaneutralität? Die Renaissance einer umstrittenen Technologie. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 54:216, 431-450.
- Brad, A., Haas, T., Schneider, E. 2024. Whose negative emissions? Exploring emergent perspectives on CDR from the EU’s hard to abate and fossil industries. Frontiers in Climate 5:1268736.
- Brad, A., Schneider, E. 2023. Carbon dioxide removal and mitigation deterrence in EU climate policy: Towards a Research Approach. Environmental Science & Policy 150, 103591.
- Brad, A., Hein, J. 2022. Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra. New Political Economy 28:3, 452-467.
- Brand, U., Muraca, B., Pineault, E., Sahakian, M., Schaffartzik, A.,Novy, A., Streissler, C., Smith, T., Haberl, H., Asara, V., Dietz, K., Lang, M., Kothari, A., Brad, A., Pichler, M., Plank, C., Velegrakis, G., Jahn, T., Wissen, M., Biesecker, A., Carter, A., Hornborg, A., Huan Qingzhi, Kallis, G., Martínez Alier, J., Riva, G., Satgar, V., Spash, C., Teran Mantovani, E., Williams, M., von Winterfeld, U., Görg, C. 2021. From Planetary to Societal Boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation. Sustainability: Science, Policy and Practices 17:1, 265-292.
- Brand, U., Boos, T., Brad, A. 2017. Degrowth and Post-Extractivism: Two debates with suggestions for the inclusive development framework. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 24, 36-41.
- Schaffarzik, A., Brad, A., Pichler, M. 2017. A world away and close to home: The multi-scalar ‘making of’ Indonesia’s energy landscape. Energy Policy 109, 817-824.
- Brad, A. 2016. Politische Ökologie und Politics of Scale – Vermittlungszusammenhänge zwischen Raum, Natur und Gesellschaft. Geographica Helvetica, 71, 353-363.
- Brad, A., Schaffarzik, A., Pichler, M., Plank, C. 2015. Contested territorialization and biophysical expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. Geoforum 64, 100-111.
Book and articles in edited volumes
- Brad, A. 2019. Der Palmölboom in Indonesien. Zur Politischen Ökonomie einer umkämpften Ressource. Transcript: Bielefeld.
- Reviews:
- Wie Staat und Kapital die Palmöl-Expansion voran treiben, von Oliver Pye in südostasien | Zeitschrift für Politik, Kultur, Dialog (15.07.2020)
- Reviews:
- Schneider, E., Brad, A., Brand, U., Krams, M., Lenikus, V. 2023. Historical material policy analysis and climate change policies. In: Garcia, A., Scherrer, C., Wullweber, J. (eds.). Handbook on Critical Political Economy and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 110-126.
- Brad, A., Brand, U., Schneider, E. 2022. (Global) Environmental Governance and the State. In: Pellizzoni, L., Leonardi, E., Asara, V. (eds.). Elgar Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing, 402-415.
- Brad, A., 2022. Staat. In: Gottschlich, D., Hackfort, S., Schmitt, T., von Winterfeld, U. (eds.). Handbuch Politische Ökologie: Theorien, Konflikte, Begriffe, Methoden. Transcript, 455-460.
- Brand, U., Brad, A. 2022. Politics. In: Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (eds.). Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, 1287–1292.