Amber Emeis is a PhD candidate at the department of Environmental Economics of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). Her research centres on the adoption of functional agrobiodiversity by Dutch arable farmers and in modelling ecosystem services. Her current work is part of the FabForward project, funded by NWO.
Amber obtained her bachelor’s degree ‘Aarde, Economie en Duurzaamheid’ and a double master’s degree in ‘Spatial and Applied Economics’ and ‘Hydrology’, all at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
For her master thesis in Economics, she focused on a willingness to pay analysis to household-based Rainwater Harvesting Systems in a semi-urban area in Madagascar. For this she spent several months in Madagascar to conduct research and work in close collaboration with a local social enterprise. For her Hydrology master thesis, she did an internship with 510 (the Netherlands Red Cross' data & digital team) and focused on the use of Early Warning Early Action systems and Finance-based Forecasting regarding food insecurity in Ethiopia.
Expertise
Agrobiodiversity, ecosystem services, choice experiments, societal cost-benefit analysis.
Education
2021: MSc Hydrology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2020: MSc Spatial and Applied Economics, with a specialization in Environmental Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2017: BSc Aarde, Economie en Duurzaamheid (Honours program), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
