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Global Change Research Institute, CAS
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Mgr. Davina Elena Vačkářová, Ph.D.

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Position: Scientist

Branch: Ecosystems, Economics and Equity

Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.V Jirchářích 149/6Praha110 00

Email: vackarova.d@czechglobe.cz

Phone: +420 601 383 185

Research Focus

I am an environmental researcher with academic training in environmental studies and applied and landscape ecology (Faculty of Science, Charles University), and in gender studies (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University). My work explores the societal impacts of global environmental change. I am interested in how nature contributes to human well-being, how its benefits and services are (under)valued, and how knowledge about ecosystem services is co-produced through the integration of diverse perspectives and within policy processes.

In my research, I connect ecological thinking and global change with questions of inequality, justice, and identity. I have contributed to international processes under IPBES, the European Environment Agency, UNDP, and IUCN.

I see sustainability as a search for ways to live within ecological limits with respect for the diversity of the world around us.

Education

2010  PhD. Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic (Applied and Landscape Ecology)

2001  master’s degree in environmental studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic 

2024  master’s degree in gender studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Czech Republic

Appointments

3/2025 – present Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Ecosystems, Economics and Equity (E3 Lab), Head

1/2020 – 2/2025 Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change, Scientist

12/2010 – 1/2020 Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change, Head

1/2006 – present Charles University, Environment Center 

7/2001 – 12/2005 Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Deartment of International Cooperation

Important research visits and fellowships

2015 Institute for Sustainability Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík

2015 – 2016  UNDP Poverty-Environment Initiative in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan)

Membership

Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP – 2014-2018 Steering Committee); IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (IUCN CEM)

IPBES: Policy support tools and methodologies for scenario analysis and modelling of biodiversity and ecosystem services (Chapter 5 Review Editor)

Editorial Board Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 

Brief scientometrics

ORCID: 0000-0002-6185-200X

WOS: G-2128-2014