Jenny Tröltzsch
Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieurin
Coordinator Adaptation
Senior Fellow
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Jenny Tröltzsch has been working at Ecologic Institute since 2010. As a Senior Fellow, her work focuses on cost-benefit evaluation of environmental goods and services, climate adaptation, climate change mitigation and regional bioeconomies. In addition, she coordinates the Institute's activities on adaptation issues. Jenny works in German and English and has a basic knowledge of Russian, Finnish and Polish.
Jenny Tröltzsch works in projects on economic assessment of climate adaptation actions on the local, national and supranational (European Union, EU) level, e.g. in projects CO-designing the Assessment of Climate CHange costs (COACCH) and Economics of Climate Change Adaptation in Europe (ECONADAPT). She works on participatory and co-design approaches to integrate stakeholder engagement in research, e.g. in Bio-based Strategies and Roadmaps for Enhanced Rural and Regional Development in the EU (BE-Rural) and Making Society an Active Participant in Water Adaptation to Global Change (BeWater). Additionally, she has developed indicators for the assessment of climate protection and adaptation, and has identified best practice examples of adaptation measures and strategies. Furthermore, Jenny Tröltzsch has been involved in several projects regarding the intersection of water management and climate adaptation, as in the projects Drought and Water Use Conflicts in Germany (WADKlim) and Increasing Good Governance for Achieving the Objectives of Integrated Water Resources Management (STEER).
Jenny Tröltzsch has been engaged in environmental research since 2003. Before she started working at Ecologic Institute, Jenny Tröltzsch worked as a researcher at the FernUniverstität in Hagen (Germany) from 2005 to 2010 in their master's program in interdisciplinary environmental sciences (infernum). From 2003 to 2004, she worked as a freelancer for Öko-Institut e.V. on corporate sustainability reporting.
Jenny Tröltzsch studied Industrial Engineering at the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden, Germany) and at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, specializing in environmental economics and water management. Until 2018, Jenny Tröltzsch was a lecturer for climate change mitigation and adaptation at the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany).