Susan Geurtsen is a PhD candidate in the Water and Climate Risk and Environmental Economics departments at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). Her research focuses on improving our empirical understanding of distributive and procedural justice in coastal Nature-based Solutions (NbS). She will combine top-down and bottom-up research approaches to develop a robust framework to quantitatively evaluate distributive and procedural justice in NbS. The empirical methodologies include household questionnaires, choice experiments and semi-structured interviews.
Susan followed the bachelor’s Future Planet Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the master’s Hydrology at VU Amsterdam. For her bachelor’s degree, she created a new irrigation map for China by applying a synergy approach using R. In her master thesis, she contributed to the contextualisation for the 3D4REAL project of Wageningen University & Research by conducting an Impact-Chain based Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment in three rural communities in Ceará, Brazil.
