Professional summary
HyeJin Kim is a senior scenario developer at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and an inter- and transdisciplinary researcher with training in anthropology and sociology (B.A.), international education policy (Ed.M.) and biology (Ph.D.). HyeJin has 17 years of experience working with data, projection models, indicators, scenarios and stakeholders across disciplines and sectors from international development to biodiversity conservation. Her research aims to integrate complementary multi-scale data, policy, and scientific frameworks to enable their integrative use in the implementation of biodiversity conservation, climate neutrality and societal wellbeing goals.
HyeJin has been working with inter-governmental, government, research, civil society and private and public donor agencies in improving the use of scenario-based information and integrative evidence in informing decision processes. Her current research focuses on co-developing nature-people positive future scenarios with stakeholders, coupling innovative methods and models with scientific advancements and rigour to generate evidence for cross-sectoral policy coherence towards societal, ecological and economic transformation.
HyeJin co-coordinated the Indicators Working Group of the IPBES Knowledge and Data Taskforce (2015-2017) and the BES-SIM Model Intercomparison Project (2017-2019) for IPBES Global and Regional assessments. She was/is a member of the IPBES Scenarios and Models Fellow (2019-2023), GEO BON Policy Taskforce/Indicators Knowledge Hub (2018-), UN SEEA Indicators Working Group (2020-), GLASSNET Global to Local Analysis of System Sustainability (2021-), BES-SIM2 Regional-Global Modelling (2023-), Bending the Curve 2.0 (2024-), Sustainable Lifestyles for Nature (2024-). HyeJin is a contributing author to IPBES Global (2019), Sustainable Use (2022), Nexus (forthcoming) assessments and an external expert/reviewer to ongoing nature-related financial/economic scenario initiatives - NGFS Conceptual Framework (2023-2024), ECB Nature-Climate Scenarios (2023-2024).
Research interests: biodiversity conservation, nature and people positive futures, multidimensional indicators for biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, transformative economy, ecological peace, conservation evidence, multi-evidence based synthesis.
Current projects: BIONEXT (EU Horizon Europe), KMGBF (England Defra), Korean Nature Futures (NC International)
Previous projects: Nature Futures Framework (IPBES), EBV2020 (GEO BON), MDI4B (Germany Saxony-Anhalt)
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MS Office, R, ArcGIS, QGIS
MS Office, R, ArcGIS, QGIS
Haga, C., Maeda, M., Hotta, W., Matsui, T., Nakaoka, M., Morimoto, J., Shibata, H., Hashimoto, S., Saito, O., Okayasu, S., Kim, H., & Peterson, G. (2023). Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01301-8
Perino, A., Pereira, H. M., Felipe‐Lucia, M., Kim, H., Kühl, H. S., Marselle, M. R., Meya, J. N., Meyer, C., Navarro, L. M., van Klink, R., Albert, G., Barratt, C. D., Bruelheide, H., Cao, Y., Chamoin, A., Darbi, M., Dornelas, M., Eisenhauer, N., Essl, F., … Bonn, A. (2022). Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation. Conservation Letters, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12848
Mansur, A. V., McDonald, R. I., Güneralp, B., Kim, H., de Oliveira, J. A. P., Callaghan, C. T., Hamel, P., Kuiper, J. J., Wolff, M., Liebelt, V., Martins, I. S., Elmqvist, T., & Pereira, H. M. (2022). Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management. Environmental Science & Policy, 131, 46–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.013
Matias, D. M. S., Kim, H., Anticamara, J. A., Matias, K. M. S., & Tibig, L. V. (2021). Emerging response options and scenarios of slow onset events related to climate change in Southeast Asia. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.004https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.00
Bonn, A., Darbi, M., Kim, H., & Marquard, E. (2020). Conservation goals in international policies. In W. J. Sutherland, P. N. M. Brotherton, Z. G. Davies, N. Ockendon, N. Pettorelli, & J. A. Vickery (Eds.), Conservation Research, Policy and Practice (1st ed., pp. 241–262). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108638210.015
Pereira, L. M., Davies, K. K., Belder, E., Ferrier, S., Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, S., Kim, H., Kuiper, J. J., Okayasu, S., Palomo, M. G., Pereira, H. M., Peterson, G., Sathyapalan, J., Schoolenberg, M., Alkemade, R., Carvalho Ribeiro, S., Greenaway, A., Hauck, J., King, N., Lazarova, T., … Lundquist, C. J. (2020). Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework. People and Nature, 2(4), 1172–1195. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10146 https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10146
Rosa, I. M. D., Purvis, A., Alkemade, R., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Ferrier, S., Guerra, C. A., Hurtt, G., Kim, H., Leadley, P., Martins, I. S., Popp, A., Schipper, A. M., van Vuuren, D., & Pereira, H. M. (2020). Challenges in producing policy-relevant global scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22, e00886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00886
Kim, H., Rosa, I. M. D., Alkemade, R., Leadley, P., Hurtt, G., Popp, A., van Vuuren, D. P., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Baisero, D., Caton, E., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Chini, L., De Palma, A., Di Fulvio, F., Di Marco, M., Espinoza, F., Ferrier, S., Fujimori, S., … Pereira, H. M. (2018). A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios. Geoscientific Model Development, 11(11), 4537–4562. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4537-2018