CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
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15 June 2021
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We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Martha Bolivar
Her dissertation "Water management analysis in the Magdalena basin in Colombia" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneider and Dr. Livia Rasche.
Martha investigates how climate change and socio-economic development could influence water management investment and their welfare in the Magdalena river basin in Colombia. For this purpose, she applied a forward-looking with welfare-maximization modeling to the studied area to compare optimal infrastructure investments for various future scenarios. The Magdalena watershed, the most populated and developed region of Colombia, will be threatened by future water shortages without optimal water management strategies. Against this trend, water-economic modeling research enables new insights to cope with the future difficulties in the research area.
Martha was a member of the Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change (FNU) at Universität Hamburg and a SICSS member. She also was a speaker of the doctoral SICSS community over a period of two years.
Martha's future plans:
Martha is looking for her “Traumjob” as a junior consultant in the branch of climate change and renewable energy, for an international bank/agency in Frankfurt am Main.