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21 December 2023

Wolfgang Lutz and Keywan Riahi appointed as ISC Fellows

IIASA is proud to announce that its Interim Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, and IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, have been selected as Fellows of the International Science Council (ISC).

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)

14 December 2023

IIASA at COP28: impressions and results

Several IIASA researchers were among the 70,000 participants at COP28 in Dubai, a diverse gathering encompassing heads of state, government officials, international industry leaders, private sector representatives, youth, and non-state actors.

Paper cut-out concept of green city with family.

08 December 2023

Urban ReLeaf at COP28

A poem on the Horizon Europe Urban ReLeaf project will be performed at COP28’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Resilience Frontiers Pavilion. Liv Torc of Hot Poets International will take participants on an evocative journey through the project’s six European pilot cities, illustrating the project’s aim of creating just and green urban transitions.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)

Events

08 January 2024 University of Vienna, Austria

The 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association

29 January 2024 Virtual event

IIASA Voices #12: Understanding emerging migration drivers and their implications

31 January 2024 Online

IIASA Connect Feature: The Language of Co-Production

Focus

11 November 2023

Nurturing the next generation of systems scientists

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: Every year, a select group of talented young scientists are offered the opportunity to embark on a transformative, career-shaping journey in the picturesque town of Laxenburg, Austria when they participate in the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP).

10 November 2023

IIASA and the G20: Systems thinking to help reform multilateralism

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: The G20 is a global platform for the discussion of cooperation, policy, and governance pathways aligned with the common interests of its member states. This year, India held the Presidency of the G20 under the banner of One Earth, One Family, One Future. To support India’s Presidency, IIASA produced four policy papers providing insight into the complexities of potential multilateral institutional reforms.

09 November 2023

IIASA Connect: Building impactful regional communities

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: As IIASA Connect brings together the global systems analysis community, it also acts as a hub for regional communities to connect and engage.

09 November 2023

Addressing landscape justice in Atlantic salmon fishing in Finland

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: An international team of researchers explored a more inclusive and locally attuned approach to governance, challenging the existing top-down model and advocating for a holistic consideration of the socio-cultural and economic dimensions of Atlantic salmon fishing in Northern Fennoscandia.

Vision and Members

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute with National and Regional Member Organisations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

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Vision

The IIASA vision for 2021 to 2030 is to be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities.

Members

Each IIASA member, shown in blue on the map, is represented by a National or Regional Member Organization that governs and funds the institute and acts as a bridge to link the country’s research and policy communities to IIASA.

Publications

Oliveira, B. & Fath, B.D. (2023). Comparative Resilience Evaluation—Case Study for Six Cities in China, Europe, and the Americas. Land 12 (6) e1182. 10.3390/land12061182. Liu, Y., Rosado, L., Wu, A., Melolinna, N., Holmqvist, J., & Fath, B. (2023). Consequence CO2 footprint analysis of circular economy scenarios in cities. Cleaner Production Letters 5 e100045. 10.1016/j.clpl.2023.100045. Rogelj, J. (2023). Q&A with Dr. Joeri Rogelj: A research agenda for overshoot. One Earth 6 (12) 1623-1624. 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.11.018. Martins, N.P., Valverde‐Barrantes, O., Fuchslueger, L., Lugli, L.F., Grandis, A., Hofhansl, F. , Takeshi, B., Ushida, G., & Quesada, C.A. (2023). Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest. Oikos e09996. 10.1111/oik.09996. (In Press) Kim, E.S., Yun, S.H., Kim, J.Y., Thorne, J.H., Hyun, J.H. , & Lee, D.K. (2024). Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning. Sustainable Cities and Society 101 e105092. 10.1016/j.scs.2023.105092. Marois, G. , Potančoková, M. , & González-Leonardo, M. (2023). Demographic and labor force impacts of future immigration flows into Europe: does an immigrant’s region of origin matter? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10 (1) art.no 957. 10.1057/s41599-023-02482-4.

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