Adriana Gomez Sanabria

Adriana Gomez-Sanabria joined IIASA in June 2015 and is currently a research scholar jointly associated with the Pollution Management and Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions research groups in the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. She has expanded the existing waste and wastewater sector in the GAINS model to explicitly quantify material and energy flows. She simulates various policy interventions based on the Circular Economy Framework targeted at reducing the environmental impacts resulting from waste and wastewater (greenhouse gas, air, and water pollution) as a consequence of society's metabolism.

Gomez-Sanabria has a BSc and an MSc in Environmental and Health Engineering from La Salle University, Colombia, as well as an MSc in Forestry from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria. She is in the process of finalizing her PhD at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences at the Institute of Social Ecology in Austria. Her research focuses on evaluating the environmental co-benefits of implementing global circular waste and wastewater management systems.

Her previous experiences include positions as an environmental engineer in the field of air quality and treatment of hazardous waste in Colombia and working at a recognized NGO (Natura Foundation) on a REDD project with the Environmental Ministry and other governmental institutions in Colombia. She also carried out research work on illicit crop monitoring in Colombia (internship at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)) followed by an internship on Data Science at the Institute for Ubiquitous Meteorology (UBIMET), where she was involved in ArcGIS, data management, and statistical data analysis. She also worked as consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the field of crop-water productivity.

Last update: 17 JUN 2021

Gomez Sanabria, A. , Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Schöpp, W. , & Haberl, H. (2022). Potentials for future reductions of global GHG and air pollutant emissions from circular municipal waste management systems. Nature Communications 13, art.no.106. 10.1038/s41467-021-27624-7.

Gomez Sanabria, A. , Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Schöpp, W. , & Haberl, H. (2021). Potentials for future reductions of global GHG and air pollutants from circular municipal waste management systems (supplementary data). 10.22022/ECE/10-2021.17598.

Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Purohit, P. , Gomez-Sanabria, A. , Rafaj, P. , Warnecke, L. , & Schöpp, W. (2021). Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-27 from 2005 to 2070 with mitigation potentials and costs: GAINS model methodology. IIASA

Dianati, K., Schäfer, L., Milner, J., Gomez Sanabria, A. , Gitau, H., Hale, J., Langmaack, H., Kiesewetter, G. , Muindi, K., Mberu, B., Zimmermann, N., Michie, S., Wilkinson, P., & Davies, M. (2021). A System Dynamics-based Scenario Analysis of Residential Solid Waste Management in Kisumu, Kenya. Science of the Total Environment 777, e146200. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146200.

European Commission, (2021). EU reference scenario 2020: energy, transport and GHG emissions : trends to 2050. Luxembourg: Publications Office. ISBN 978-92-76-39356-6

Gomez Sanabria, A. , Zusman, E., Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Klimont, Z. , Lee, S.-Y., Akahoshi, K., Farzaneh, H., & Chairunnisa, (2020). Sustainable wastewater management in Indonesia's fish processing industry: Bringing governance into scenario analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 275, e111241. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111241.

Amann, M. , Kiesewetter, G. , Schöpp, W. , Klimont, Z. , Winiwarter, W. , Cofala, J., Rafaj, P. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Gomez-Sanabria, A. , Heyes, C. , Purohit, P. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Wagner, F. , Sander, R. , Fagerli, H., Nyiri, A., Cozzi, L., & Pavarini, C. (2020). Reducing global air pollution: the scope for further policy interventions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378 (2183), e20190331. 10.1098/rsta.2019.0331.

Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Gomez-Sanabria, A. , Klimont, Z. , Rafaj, P. , & Schöpp, W. (2020). Technical potentials and costs for reducing global anthropogenic methane emissions in the 2050 timeframe –results from the GAINS model. Environmental Research Communications 2 (2), e025004. 10.1088/2515-7620/ab7457.

Nguyen, B. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Karner, M., Truong, A.H., & Nguyen, T.Q. (2020). CraftQuest—Mobile App for Collecting Craft Village Data. In: Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications. pp. 222-231 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-32-9185-010.1007/978-981-32-9186-7_24.

Purohit, P. , Amann, M. , Kiesewetter, G. , Rafaj, P. , Chaturvedi, V., Dholakia, H.H., Koti, P.N., Klimont, Z. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Schöpp, W. , & Sander, R. (2019). Mitigation pathways towards national ambient air quality standards in India. Environment International 133, e105147. 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105147.

Ghanimeh, S., Gomez Sanabria, A. , Tsydenova, N., Štrbová, K., Iossifidou, M., & Kumar, A. (2019). Two-Level Comparison of Waste Management Systems in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Cities. Environmental Engineering Science 36 (10), 1281-1295. 10.1089/ees.2019.0047.

Purohit, P. , Amann, M. , Kiesewetter, G. , Rafaj, P. , Chaturvedi, V., Dholakia, H., Nagarkoti, P., Klimont, Z. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Schöpp, W. , & Sander, R. (2019). Pathways towards clean air in India. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019, 7–12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.

Liu, J., Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Cofala, J., Heyes, C., Schöpp, W., Zhu, T., Cao, G., Gomez Sanabria, A. , Sander, R. , Guo, F. , Zhang, Q., Nguyen, B. , Bertok, I., Rafaj, P. , & Amann, M. (2019). Mitigation pathways of air pollution from residential emissions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Environment International 125, 236-244. 10.1016/j.envint.2018.09.059.

Purohit, P. , Amann, M. , Kiesewetter, G. , Chaturvedi, V., Rafaj, P. , Dholakia, H.H., Nagar Koti, P., Klimont, Z. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Gómez-Sanabria, A. , Schöpp, W. , & Sander, R. (2019). Pathways to Achieve National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in India. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

Amann, M. , Klimont, Z. , An Ha, T., Rafaj, P. , Kiesewetter, G. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Nguyen, B. , Thi Thu, T.N., Thuy, K., Schöpp, W. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Wagner, F. , Sander, R. , Heyes, C. , Cofala, J., Trung, N.Q., Dat, N.T., & Tung, N.N. (2019). Future air quality in Ha Noi and northern Vietnam. IIASA Research Report. Laxenburg, Austria: RR-19-003

Amann, M. , Jiming, H., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Cofala, J., Gomez Sanabria, A. , Heyes, C. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Nguyen, B. , Purohit, P. , Rafaj, P. , Sander, R. , Wagner, F. , Schöpp, W. , Kuylenstierna, J., Wang, S., Ye, W., Shindell, D., Seltzer, K., & Borgford-Parnell, N. (2019). Scenarios and Solutions. In: Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based solutions. pp. 61-100 Bangkok, Thailand: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). ISBN 978-92-807-3725-7

Cofala, J., Amann, M. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Heyes, C. , Kiesewetter, G. , Sander, R. , Schöpp, W. , Holland, M., Fagerli, H., & Nyiri, A. (2018). Final Report The potential for cost-effective air emission reductions from international shipping through designation of further Emission Control Areas in EU waters with focus on the Mediterranean Sea. IIASA Research Report. Laxenburg, Austria: RR-18-002

Schöpp, W. & Gomez Sanabria, A. (2018). High resolution Urban Population for Asian Cities.

Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Purohit, P. , Gomez-Sanabria, A. , Rafaj, P. , Schöpp, W. , & Borken-Kleefeld, J. (2018). Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28 from 2005 to 2070: GAINS model methodology. IIASA

Gomez Sanabria, A. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Rafaj, P. , & Schöpp, W. (2018). Carbon in global waste and wastewater flows – its potential as energy source under alternative future waste management regimes. Advances in Geosciences 45, 105-113. 10.5194/adgeo-45-105-2018.

Danylo, O., See, L. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Schnabel, G., & Fritz, S. (2017). Using the LCZ framework for change detection and urban growth monitoring. Geophysical Research Abstracts 19, p. 18043.

Capros, P., De Vita, A., Tasios, N., Siskos, P., Kannavou, M., Petropoulos, A., Evangelopoulou, S., Zampara, M., Papadopoulos, D., Nakos, Ch., Paroussos, L., Fragiadakis, K., Tsani, S., Karkatsoulis, P., Fragkos, P., Kouvaritakis, N., Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Purohit, P. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Frank, S. , Forsell, N., Gusti, M., Havlik, P. , Obersteiner, M. , Witzke, H.P., & Kesting, M. (2016). EU Reference Scenario 2016 - Energy, transport and GHG emissions Trends to 2050. European Commission Directorate - General for Energy, Directorate - General for Climate Action and Directorate - General for Mobility and Transport

Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Purohit, P. , & Gomez-Sanabria, A. (2016). Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28 from 2005 to 2050: GAINS model methodology. IIASA Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria