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Frauke Urban
Interdisciplinary scientist with 10 years experience on the links between energy, climate change and development. Frauke currently works as Research Fellow in Climate Change and Development at the Institute of Development Studies IDS. Her research expertise includes energy and poverty, climate change mitigation, low carbon development, energy and climate policy and sustainable development.
She completed her PhD on low carbon energy transitions as climate change mitigation options for China and India in 2008. She currently holds a grant from the Economics and Social Research Council ESRC on China as a new 'shaper' of global development. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals such as World Development, Development Policy Review, Climatic Change, Energy Policy, Applied Energy and the Journal of Green Economics.
Frauke is currently the programme convenor at IDS for the MSc Climate Change and Development and in the academic year 2009-2010 she was the programme co-convenor for the MA Development Studies at IDS. In addition to her research and teaching experience, she has led international consultancies for governments and non-governmental organisations, including the UK Department for International Development DFID, CAFOD, Climate Strategies, Oxfam and Renewable World / Koru Foundation.
Selected Projects and Recent Work
- The Impact of Emerging Power: China-EU Cooperation and Global Governance
- Technological Trajectories for Climate Change Mitigation in China, Europe and India
- China Low Carbon Platform
- China as the new 'shaper' of global development
- Learning for Climate Change Mitigation Finance from Development Assistance
- Assessment of large and small hydropower options
- 'Enabling Environments' for low carbon economies: implications for low-income countries
Selected Publications »»
- Urban, F., Nordensvärd, J., Wang, Y., Khatri, D. and Mohan, C. (2011) 'China and the African Oil Sector: Channels of Engagement, Motives, Actors and Impacts', IDS Working Paper 374, Brighton: IDS
- Mulugetta, Y. and Urban, F. (2010) 'Deliberating on Low Carbon Development'
- Urban, F. (2010) 'Pro-poor Low Carbon Development and the Role of Growth', International Journal of Green Economics 4.1:82-93
- Urban, F. (2010) 'The MDGs and beyond: Can low carbon development be pro-poor?', IDS Bulletin 41.1:92-99, Brighton: IDS
- Urban, F., Benders, R.M.J., Moll, H.C. (2009) 'Renewable and low-carbon energy as mitigation options of climate change for China', Climatic Change 1-2.94:169-188, Springer, Netherlands
- Urban, F. (2009) 'Climate change mitigation revisited: Low-carbon energy transitions for China and India', Development Policy Review Journal Vol 27 (6) :693-715
- Urban, F., Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C. (2009) 'Energy for Rural India', Applied Energy 86:47-57
- Van Ruijven, B., Urban, F., Benders, R.M.J., Moll, H.C, Van der Sluijs, J., De Vries, B. and Van Vuuren, D.P. (2008) 'Modelling Energy and Development: an Evaluation of Models and Concepts', World Development 36.12:2801 - 2821
- Urban, F., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C., (2008) 'Scenarios for a renewable energy transition in Beijing', Energy Policy special issue 'Renewable Energy in China'
- Urban, F., Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C. (2007) 'Modelling energy systems for developing countries', Energy Policy 35.6:3473-3482