Magdalena is a PhD candidate in the department of Environmental Economics of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. She obtained her BSc degree in Psychology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and pursued her MSc degree at VU in Environment and Resource Management.
For her MSc thesis she studied preferences for landscape restoration in the culturally significant Montado landscape in Portugal. Specifically, she applied behavioural theories to assess users’ and non-users’ willingness-to-pay for restoration, as a function of their environmental attitude, place identity and relevant cultural ecosystem services. Her research was embedded in a local research project and funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme via the Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone, and socio-ecological Research infrastructure Advanced Community project (eLTER PLUS).
In her PhD research, Magdalena investigates the attitudes, preferences and economic values of citizens and businesses for nature-based solutions across European contexts as part of the ARCADIA project.
Expertise
Psychological determinants of environmental valuation.
Education
2023: MSc Environment and Resource Management, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2021: BSc Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
