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IIASA

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

We are an international research institute that advances systems analysis and applies its research methods to identify policy solutions to reduce human footprints, enhance the resilience of natural and socioeconomic systems, and help achieve the sustainable development goals.

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YSSP - Young Scientists Summer Program

IIASA offers a summer program for PhD students to undertake a scientific project on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. Applications now open!

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Fifty years of IIASA

Disaster aid is often too little and too late. It also discourages governments and individuals from taking advantage of the high returns to preventive action. In a Science article, scholars from the IIASA Risk, Modeling and Society Program identified several innovative approaches to free vulnerable countries from dependence on unpredictable post-disaster assistance.

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The Vienna Statement on Science Diplomacy - advocating for a global commitment

The Vienna Statement on Science Diplomacy, a document advocating for a renewed global commitment to international scientific cooperation to help countries build stronger relations for the benefit of all of humanity, has been endorsed by more than one hundred eminent personalities from the academic and policymaking community.

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Understanding supply chain disruptions: a Q&A with IIASA postdoctoral fellow Célian Colon

Célian Colon is a research scholar in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program and a Peter E. De Jànosi Postdoctoral Fellowship holder at IIASA. He recently sat down with 2022 Science Communication Fellow, Jakob Angeli, to talk about resilience, his career path, and why throwing money at COVID-related research can be counterproductive.

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Slideshow links

  • The Vienna Statement on Science Diplomacy
  • IIASA 50th Anniversary: 1972-2022

Programs

  • Advancing Systems Analysis Research groups
    • Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
    • Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
    • Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
    • Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
  • Biodiversity and Natural Resources Research groups
    • Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
    • Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
    • Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
    • Water Security (WAT)
  • Economic Frontiers Research groups
    • Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC)
    • Economics of disruptive change (EDC)
  • Energy, Climate, and Environment Research groups
    • Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
    • Pollution Management (PM)
    • Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
    • Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
  • Population and Just Societies Research groups
    • Equity and Justice (EQU)
    • Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
    • Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)
    • Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
  • Strategic Initiatives Current intitiatives
    • fairSTREAM project
    • JustTrans4All project
    • RESIST project
    • TRUST project

News

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29 November 2022

New global targets for protecting and restoring nature can help tackle climate change

IIASA researchers contributed to a recent report published by the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) calling for coordinated action on climate change and nature loss.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
Empty Classroom In Elementary School With Whiteboard And Desks

24 November 2022

How COVID-19 school closures will affect inequalities in adult skills

School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
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24 November 2022

2022 TWAS-Lenovo Science Award awarded to Fu Bojie

IIASA congratulates Fu Bojie on receiving this year’s TWAS – Lenovo Science Award, in recognition of his seminal contribution to the understanding of interactions between human beings and the environment, and their implications for sustainability.
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Events

04 December 2022 Cape Town, South Africa

IIASA 50th Anniversary event in South Africa during the World Science Forum

05 December 2022 Online

Webinar: Health implications of climate tipping points

07 December 2022 Montreal, Canada & Online

IIASA at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal

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Focus

07 November 2022

A fair climate

Policy Brief #35, October 2022. Sharing mitigation fairly between countries doesn’t have to be expensive.
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07 November 2022

Promising climate progress

Policy Brief #34, October 2022. Recent net-zero pledges could take the world a long way towards meeting the Paris climate goals, but an ambition gap remains.
Promising climate progress

12 October 2022

Energy dissected

By capturing the fine structure of energy use, IIASA research reveals the need for targeted policy on energy access, illuminates a possible clash between access and climate, and shows that billions may be unprotected from heat stress.
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12 October 2022

Targeting methane

Countries are coming together to try and control this elusive greenhouse gas, with the help of IIASA research.
Methane gas bubbles trapped in frozen water at Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia.

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

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Wu, G.C., Baker, J.S., Wade, C.M., McCord, G.C., Fargione, J.E., & Havlik, P. (2022). Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States. Sustainability Science 10.1007/s11625-022-01232-w.

Zhou, W., Ren, H., Zhang, C., Yu, Y., Cheng, Y., Hu, X., & Zhu, B. (2022). The effects of structural and technical change on China’s industrial CO2 emissions pathways under uncertainty. Climate Policy 1-15. 10.1080/14693062.2022.2147130.

Karutz, R., Omann, I., Gorelick, S.M., Klassert, C.J.A., Zozmann, H., Zhu, Y., Kabisch, S., Kindler, A., Figueroa, A.J., Wang, A., Küblböck, K., Grohs, H., Burek, P. , Smilovic, M. , & Klauer, B. (2022). Capturing Stakeholders’ Challenges of the Food–Water–Energy Nexus—A Participatory Approach for Pune and the Bhima Basin, India. Sustainability 14 (9) e5323. 10.3390/su14095323.

Beusch, L., Nicholls, Z. , Gudmundsson, L., Hauser, M., Meinshausen, M., & Seneviratne, S.I. (2022). From emission scenarios to spatially resolved projections with a chain of computationally efficient emulators: coupling of MAGICC (v7.5.1) and MESMER (v0.8.3). Geoscientific Model Development 15 (5) 2085-2103. 10.5194/gmd-15-2085-2022.

Meinshausen, M. & Nicholls, Z. (2022). GWP*is a model, not a metric. Environmental Research Letters 17 (4) e041002. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5930.

Gidden, M. , Gasser, T. , Grassi, G., Forsell, N., Janssens, I., Lamb, W., Minx, J., Nicholls, Z. , Steinhauser, J. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Policy guidance and pitfalls aligning IPCC scenarios to national land emissions inventories. Earth and Space Science Open Archive 10.1002/essoar.10512676.2.

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