Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská

Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská is an ecological institutional economist (PhD in ecological economics), founder and director of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Study of Institutions, Evolutions and Policies (CETIP) at the Institute of Forecasting at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Her main research concentrates on interdisciplinary research into nature-society interrelations, such as the human dimension of global environmental change, co-evolution of institutional changes in Central and Eastern Europe, with a primary focus on biodiversity.

In the period between 2003-2010 she has participated in 5 EU Framework projects: "Integrated Development of Agricultural and Rural Institutions in CEEC’s" (IDARI 2003-2006), Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and Benchmarking Process, (EUROCOOP 2005-2008), Rationalising Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Ecosystems (RUBICODE 2006-2009), Multi-level Governance of Natural Resources: Tools and Processes for Water and Biodiversity Governance in Europe” (GoverNat 2006-2010), Emerging the Emerging Theories and Methods in Sustainability Research (THEMES 2006-2009) and  the TGEG COST Action IS0802.

Dr. Kluvánková-Oravská is lecturing in ecological economics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University Bratislava  and is supervising two Ph.D.  and two MSc. students in ecological economics. Dr. Kluvánková-Oravská coordinated the Marie Curie summer school   Institutional Analyses of Sustainability Problems, Stara Lesna 2007 (project THEMES). Dr. Kluvánková-Oravská acted as the member of Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (2003-2007), Research Council of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2002-). She is a member of the International Society for Ecological Economics since 1996, a  member of the board of the  European Society since 05/2003 as well as vice-president since January 2010, and Faculty member of the IHDP project Earth System Governance.