Wolfram Schlenker

Focus areas: Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture, climate change and migration, the effect of pollution on agricultural yields, the geography of extreme heat, storage responses to changes in agricultural production volatility, the link between airplane exhaust and local air quality and human health

Wolfram Schlenker teaches classes in environmental and natural resource economics. His research interests include the economics of climate change with a focus on the effects of changing weather conditions on agricultural output.

He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) and a Master of Engineering and Management Sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2000), as well as a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University (1998).

Education

• PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• MEMS, University of Karlsruhe
• MEM, Duke University

A research paper co-authored by Professor Wolfram Schlenker and Anouch Missirian, a fourth-year student in the PhD program in sustainable development at SIPA, considers the need for a revised definition for refugee status as climate change is spurring people to seek asylum.

Wolfram Schlenker and PhD candidate Anouch Missirian find that EU could face a massive influx by 2100 if carbon emissions hold steady.