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Scenario-building for Bio-based Economy Development in Central and South Asia

Mar 17, 2020

MARISCO Method Learning

In a four-day workshop in March 2020, TRANSECT research group received a training in the applied MARISCO method, which was developed by the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE). MARISCO is a toolbox allowing a participative scenario development by including stakeholders, e.g. farmers and decision-makers, examining and evaluating factors for well-being, stressors and root-causes. Aim is to develop possible future paths for an improvement of local social-ecological systems. TRANSECT researchers were assisted to evaluate all phases of scenario-development, particularly in systems that are impacted by agricultural transformations, but also to look into opportunities to adapt the MARISCO method to particular research settings. The learned MARISCO method will be applied in a series of stakeholder workshops in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, starting from winter 2021/22.

Find out more:

https://www.marisco.training/news/

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Pengshan Pan

Guest Fellow, Jun - Sep 2022

Pengshan Pan's research focuses on international development and political economy, especially in Central and South Asia. In particular, he explores the interlinkages between foreign direct investment, the environment and conflict. At TRANSECT, he is working on the project of China's agricultural production and technology investments in Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

pep27@pitt.edu

Research Interests

International Political Economy
Development Economics
Environment and Conflict
Foreign Investment and Labor
Islam in Post-Communism
China in Central and South Asia

Curriculum Vitae

Pengshan Pan is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His fields are international political economy and development. His research focuses on international development and political economy, especially in Central and South Asia. In particular, he explores the interlinkages between foreign direct investment, nature and conflict. He is broadly interested in industrial policies in post-communist countries and China's footprint in Eurasia.

Aug 2017 – Current

PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Graduate Certificate: Center for Russian & East European Studies / Asian Studies Center
Fields: International Political Economy / Development

Aug 2014 – Dec 2016

Master of Science, Economics

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI, USA

Sep 2009 – Jun 2013

Bachelor of Economics, Finance

Sichuan University Chengdu, China

Experience

mid-June /July / August / mid-September 2022

Visiting Fellow, TRANSECT

Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany

Mar / April /May / June 2022

Research Fellow, OSCE Academy Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Spring 2022
Participant, Economic Research Mentoring Program,

China-Russia Eurasian Studies Center Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Summer 2021
Participant, Virtual Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality
University of Chicago / Hong Kong University of Science and Techology

Summer 2018

Participant, ICPSR Summer Institute, EITM Certificate

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Sep 2017 – Current
Research Assistant, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Sep 2016 - Apr 2017

Research Assistant, La Follette School of Public Affairs Madison, WI, USA

Conference & Seminar Presentations

Fall 2022 / Montreal, Canada & Fall 2021 Seattle, WA, USA, (virtual)

American Political Science Association Conference (APSA)

Spring 2022

Midwest Political Science Association Conference (MPSA)

Chicago, IL, USA

Summer 2022 / Tashkent, Uzbekistan & Fall 2021 Columbus, OH, USA, (virtual)

Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference (CESS)

Spring 2022

Graduate Students in International Political Economy (GSIPE), (virtual)

Summer 2022

Wisconsin Russia Project Workshop

University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA

Summer 2021

Conceptualizing the BRI and its Effects Workshop

University of Toronto, Canada

Summer 2021
Political Science and International Relations Academic Community Conference

Tsinghua University Beijing, China

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Scenario-building for Bio-based Economy Development in Central and South Asia

MARISCO Method Learning

Pengshan Pan

Guest Fellow, Jun - Sep 2022

TRANSECTSchwappachweg 3 (22.1)16225 EberswaldeGermany

TRANSECT
Schwappachweg 3 (22.1)
16225 Eberswalde
Germany