Dr Frauke Urban
BSc, MSc, PhD
Overview
Centre for Development, Environment and Policy
Lecturer in Environment and Development
- Name:
- Dr Frauke Urban
- Email address:
- fu1@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 0203 0738329
- Building:
- 36 Gordon Square
- Office No:
- LIDC 203
Biography
Dr. Frauke Urban is an environmental scientist specialised on the linkages between energy, climate change and development, especially climate change mitigation, low carbon development and energy policy. Her main regional interest is Asia, particularly China, India and Southeast Asia. She also works on China’s rise and its environmental implications in low and middle income countries.
Frauke works as Lecturer in Environment and Development at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS. Before joining SOAS she worked as Research Fellow in Climate Change and Development at the Institute of Development Studies IDS at the University of Sussex in 2008-2011. Before that, she was Research Fellow at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 2004-2008 and a Visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2007.
Teaching
Programme Director: Environmental Management
Module convenor:
Research
Dr. Frauke Urban works on the linkages between energy, climate change and development, especially climate change mitigation, low carbon development and energy policy. Her main regional interest is Asia, particularly China, India and Southeast Asia. She also works on China’s rise and its environmental implications in low and middle income countries.
Frauke is currently working on the textbook “Low Carbon Development: Key Issues” for Earthscan / Routledge (edited by Urban and Nordensvärd, forthcoming 2013). She is a guest editor for the journal Environment, Development and Sustainability for the special issue “China as a new shaper of international development: The environmental implications”.
Frauke currently works on the project 'Technological Trajectories for Climate Change Mitigation in Europe, China and India' funded by the Svenska Riksbanken Jubileumsfond and the Volkswagen Foundation. The project is driven by the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change through technological innovation. The project addresses two questions: a) how and why do the emerging technological trajectories for climate change mitigation in Europe, China and India differ, and b) what are the implications for strategies of international competition and cooperation at the enterprise and government level. The research is being carried out by conducting empirical analysis on two sectors: wind energy and electric vehicles. Time frame: 2011-2013.
Frauke has led and contributed to a wide range of research projects and consultancies at IDS before joining SOAS, including being the Principal Investigator for an ESRC-funded network grant on China as a new ‘shaper’ of international development. Other work at IDS included projects on low carbon development, energy policy and climate change mitigation in developing countries funded by DFID, CDKN, CAFOD, Oxfam, Climate Strategies, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the British Academy. For her PhD at the University of Groningen, Frauke conducted research on transitions to low carbon energy as climate change mitigation options for China and India, which was funded by the Ubbo-Emmius-Foundation.
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Regional Expertise
- South East Asia
Country Expertise
- China
- India
- Malaysia
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
Publications
Edited Books
Urban, Frauke and Nordensvärd, Johan, eds. (2013) Low Carbon Development: Key Issues. Earthscan. (Forthcoming)
Book Chapters
Urban, Frauke and Sumner, A. (2012) 'Pro-poor low carbon development.' In: Ockwell, D. and Mallet, A., (eds.), Low carbon technology transfer: from rhetoric to reality. Earthscan.
Urban, Frauke and Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C. (2006) 'Modelling Transitions to Renewable Energy in Developing Countries.' In: Sastry, E.V.R. and Reddy, D.N., (eds.), ICORE 2006. Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India, pp. 497-502.
Articles
Urban, Frauke and Nordensvärd, Johan O and Zhou, Yuan (2012) 'Key actors and their motives for wind energy innovation in China.' Innovation and Development, 2 (1). pp. 111-130.
Urban, Frauke and Nordensvärd, Johan and Khatri, Deepika and Wang, Yu (2012) 'An analysis of China's investments in the hydropower sector in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region.' Environment, Development and Sustainability .
Urban, Frauke and Mohan, Giles and Cook, Sarah (2012) 'China as a new shaper of international development: The environmental implications.' Environment, Development and Sustainability .
Urban, Frauke and Lind, Jeremy (2011) 'Low carbon energy and conflict: A new agenda.' Boiling Point (59). pp. 26-27.
Urban, Frauke and Mitchell, T. and Silva Villanueva, P. (2011) 'Issues at the interface of disaster risk management and low-carbon development.' Climate and Development, 33 (3). pp. 259-279.
Mulugetta, Yacob and Urban, Frauke (2010) 'Deliberating on low carbon development.' Energy Policy, 38 (12). pp. 7546-7549.
Urban, Frauke (2010) 'Pro-poor low carbon development and the role of growth.' International Journal of Green Economics, 4 (1). pp. 82-93.
Urban, Frauke (2010) 'The MDGs and beyond: Can low carbon development be pro-poor?' IDS Bulletin, 41 (1). pp. 92-99.
Urban, Frauke (2010) 'Climate change mitigation revisited: Low-carbon energy transitions for China and India [in Chinese].' Urban Insight, 5 (2). pp. 36-53.
Urban, Frauke (2009) 'Climate change mitigation revisited: Low-carbon energy transitions for China and India.' Development Policy Review Journal, 27 (6). pp. 693-715.
Urban, Frauke and Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C. (2009) 'Renewable and low-carbon energy as mitigation options of climate change for China.' Climatic Change, 94 (1-2). pp. 169-188.
Urban, Frauke and Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C: (2009) 'Energy for rural India.' Applied Energy, 86 . pp. 47-57.
Van Ruijven, B. and Urban, Frauke and Benders, R.J.M. and Moll, H.C. and Van der Sluijs, J and De Vries, B and Van Vuuren, D.P. (2008) 'Modeling Energy and Development: an Evaluation of Models and Concepts.' World Development, 36 (12). pp. 2801-2821.
Urban, Frauke and Benders, R.M.J. and Moll, H.C. (2007) 'Modelling energy systems for developing countries.' Energy Policy, 35 (6). pp. 3473-3482.
Monographs
Lockwood, Matthew and Urban, Frauke (2012) Drivers for low carbon development: Case studies from China, Ghana and Ethiopia. Discussion Paper. Brighton: IDS / DFID.
Urban, Frauke and Nordensvard, Johan (2011) The Ambiguous Role of Corporations in Climate Change Mitigation: An Explorative Appraisal of Corporations in China, Malaysia and the US. Working Paper. IDS Working Paper, vol. 2011 (373).
Urban, Frauke (2011) Achieving Low Carbon Development in Ethiopia, Ghana and China – the Role of Governments, Business and Civil Society. Working Paper. IDS Paper for the Learning Hub on Adaptation and Low Carbon Development.
Urban, Frauke and Nordensvard, Johan and Wang, Yu and Khatri, Deepika and Mohan, Giles (2011) China and the African oil sector: channels of engagement, motives, actors and impacts. Working Paper. IDS Working Paper, vol. 2011 (374).
Urban, Frauke and Mohan, Giles and Zhang, Yanbing (2011) The understanding and practice of development in China and the European Union. Working Paper. IDS Working Paper, vol. 2011 (372).
Urban, Frauke (2011) Technology, Trade and Climate Policy: The Pursuit of Low Carbon Development in Least Developed Countries, Vulnerable Economies and Small Island Developing States. Discussion Paper. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
Urban, Frauke and Mitchell, Tom (2011) Climate change, disasters and the energy sector: Issues at the interface of changing disaster risks, adaptation and mitigation. Discussion Paper. Strengthening Climate Resilience Discussion Paper, IDS.
Urban, Frauke and Mitchell, T. and Silva Villanueva, P. (2010) Greening Disaster Risk Management: Issues at the Interface of Disaster Risk Management and Low Carbon Development. Discussion Paper. Strengthening Climate Resilience Discussion Paper 3, IDS.
Urban, Frauke (2009) Learning for climate change mitigation finance from development assistance. Working Paper. Climate Strategies, London.
Urban, Frauke (2009) Enabling environments for low carbon economies: implications for least developed countries. Discussion Paper. CAFOD, London.
Theses
Urban, Frauke (2009) Sustainable energy for developing countries – Modelling transitions to renewable and clean energy in rapidly developing countries. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Other
Urban, Frauke and Mohan, G. (2010) 'China’s Rise – Implications for Low Income Countries.' IDS In Focus Policy Briefing (8.4).
Urban, Frauke and Sumner, A. (2009) 'After 2015: Pro-poor low carbon development.' IDS In Focus Policy Briefing (9.4).
Urban, Frauke and Wang, Yu (2009) 'Energy, climate change and low carbon development in China.' IDS In Focus Policy Briefing (8.2).
