Tatiana (Tanya) Filatova, Assistant Professor

Summary

Tatiana joined CSTM as an Assistant Professor in 2010. From 2009 she also works as an economist at Deltares, the leading Dutch knowledge institute in the field of water management specialized in hazard-prone densely populated coastal and delta areas. At CSTM Dr. Filatova is mainly involved in teaching and research, which was recently distinguished with the VENI grant from NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Her current research focuses on modelling the emergence of abrupt structural changes in land markets in hazard-prone areas from the bottom up. To model such non-marginal changes is a challenge as economic tools are designed to model marginal changes only. Tatiana uses agent-based modelling (ABM) to incorporate adaptive expectations about land market dynamics and evolution of individual risk perception into land-use models. To study the aggregated outcomes of individual adaptation to increasing climate-induced risks the project combines spatial ABM with empirically-grounded adaptive behaviour derived from laboratory experiments. The broader scientific goal is to explore the effects of adaptive economic behaviour in complex human-environment systems, providing new policy support tools for climate adaptation. Besides these academic activities, Tatiana is a member of Scientific Committees for several international conferences, and a reviewer for various international journals in the field of ecological-economic modelling and water management. From 2008 Tatiana serves as a Secretary of the international Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs). She is also a co-organizer of the Special Interest Group on “Spatial and Ecological-Economic issues” within the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA).

Research interests

FULL CV

Education

PhD (Cum Laude), University of Twente, The Netherlands, March 2005 – April 2009. Specialization: spatial economics, land-use modelling, flood risk management, agent-based computational economics. Thesis: “Land markets from the bottom up: Micro-macro links in economics and implications for coastal risk management” – available upon request. Short description of the project.

Graduate study (Candidate of science degree), Institute of Natural Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chita, Russia, 2003-2005. Specialization: ecological and environmental economics

MSc (Cum Laude), Chita State Technical University, Russia, 1998-2005. Specialization: information systems in economics

Employment Record

Researcher, Deltares, Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Utrecht-Delft, The Netherlands, October 2009 – present

Junior researcher, Institute of Natural Resources of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, 2003-2005

Researcher, NGO “Transbaikal Research Centre for Ecological Economics”, Chita, Russia, 2001-2005

Visiting Researcher

Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, USA, 2007, 2008, 2009

Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, USA, 2006

National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management (RIKZ), The Netherlands, 2006

Awards

NWO VENI grant: Changing climate – changing behaviour: integrating adaptive economic behavior in land-use models (2012-2015). Summary of the research proposal

Commendation for the best paper and presentation at the 4^th Biennial International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs’08), “Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making”, July 7-10, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain, 2008

Best paper award, Vth Conference “Regional Science”, Environmental economics section, Organized by the Council for the study of productive resources (SOPS),

Moscow, 5th of November 2004

Selected Publications

(For the complete list of publications – see Full CV)

T. Filatova, D. C. Parker, A. van der Veen (2011) “The Implications of Skewed Risk Perception for a Dutch Coastal Land Market: Insights from an Agent-Based Computational Economics Model”, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 40(3), p405-423, http://purl.umn.edu/120639

T. Filatova, J. Mulder, A. van der Veen (2011) “Coastal risk management: how to motivate individual economic decisions to lower flood risk?”, Ocean and Coastal Management 54 (2), 164-172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.10.028

T. Filatova, A.Voinov, A. van der Veen (2011) “Land market mechanisms for preservation of space for coastal ecosystems: An agent-based analysis”, Environmental Modelling & Software, 26 179-190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.08.001

T. Filatova, A. van der Veen, D. C. Parker (2009). “Land market interactions between heterogeneous agents in a heterogeneous landscape—tracing the macro-scale effects of individual trade-offs between environmental amenities and disamenities”, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 57(4), 431-459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7976.2009.01164.x

T. Filatova, D. C. Parker, and A. van der Veen (2009) “Agent-Based Urban Land Markets: Agent’s Pricing Behavior, Land Prices and Urban Land Use Change”, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 12 (1). Available online: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/1/3.html

D. C. Parker, T. Filatova (2008) “A conceptual design for a bilateral agent-based land market with heterogeneous economic agents”, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 32, 454–463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.09.012

J. Krywkow, T. Filatova, and A. van der Veen (2008). “Flood risk perceptions in the Dutch province of Zeeland: does the public still support current policies?” In P. Samuels, S. Huntington, W. Allsop, and J. Harrop, editors, Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice, CRC Press/Balkema Proceedings and Monographs in Engineering, Water and Earth Science, pages 1513 – 1521, 2008. Taylor & Francis Group, London

I. Glazyrina, T. Filatova (2004) “Ecological footprint as a quality of growth indicator”, Environmental Economics, 2, 60-76, 2004 (in Russian)

Editorial Responsibilities

Special issue on “Spatial agent-based models for socio-ecological systems”, of the international journal of Environmental Modeling and Software, (2011). Joint Guest Editor with Dawn Parker (University of Waterloo, Canada), Peter Verburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) and Carol-Ann Stannard (The James Hutton Institute, UK)

Teaching

Economic Methods of Sustainability Assessment, 2011-present

European Economic Integration (co-teaching), 2010

Sustainable development in developing countries (team coach), 2010, 2011

Cost-benefit analysis for water resource management, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2005-2006

Informational systems in economics, Chita State University, Russia, 2003-2005