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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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IIASA at Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2024

The Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress is the world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community. This year it will be held for the first time in Europe, taking place in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, from 10-15 June.

Renewable energy

Long-Term Joint European Union - African Union Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE)

IIASA joins the LEAP-RE joint initiative of the European Union and African Union to advance the cooperation in research and innovation actions on renewable energy with the RE4AFAGRI project.

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Summer schools

2024 IIASA Summer Schools

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Tipping points webinar series: Interactions and cascades of climate tipping points

Recent research assessed that many interactions between climate tipping elements are of a destabilizing nature, leading to the possibility of climate domino effects. In this installment of the Tipping points webinar series, experts will review the current state of literature on tipping point interactions and discuss risks for cascading transitions under current global warming trajectories.

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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 fields
    • Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC)
    • Economics of disruptive change (EDC)
  • Energy, Climate, and Environment Research groups
    • Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
    • Integrated Climate Impacts (ICI)
    • 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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13 June 2024

Professor Karen Lips appointed as IIASA Deputy Director General

It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor Karen Lips as the new IIASA Deputy Director General effective from 1 July 2024.
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12 June 2024

The Global Nitrous Oxide Budget 2024

IIASA researchers contributed to a new study finding that nitrous oxide emissions continued to rise between 1980 and 2020, marking a 40% increase in man-made emissions of this potent greenhouse gas over this period.
Lancang-Mekong River Basin

10 June 2024

Analyzing the benefits of transboundary cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin

A new study conducted by IIASA researchers and their colleagues highlights that cooperation in infrastructure operation between countries surrounding the Lancang-Mekong River Basin could bring major economic and environmental co-benefits.

Events

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01 June 2024

Shaping the Future of Rural Africa: Online Training to Navigate the Water-Energy-Land Nexus

12 June 2024 Edinburgh, Scotland

European Population Conference 2024

14 June 2024 Seoul, South Korea

Symposium on Climate Risk Management and Adaptation: University of Seoul, Korea National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) and IIASA

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 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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Marois, G. , Crespo Cuaresma, J., Zellmann, J., & Reiter, C. (2024). A dataset of human capital-weighted population estimates for 185 countries from 1970 to 2100. Scientific Data 11 (1) e612. 10.1038/s41597-024-03466-y. Elroy, O. , Komendantova, N. , & Yosipof, A. (2024). Cyber-echoes of climate crisis: Unraveling anthropogenic climate change narratives on social media. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 7 e100256. 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100256. Tian, H., Pan, N., Thompson, R. L., Canadell, J. G., Suntharalingam, P., Regnier, P., Davidson, E. A., Prather, M., Ciais, P., Muntean, M., Pan, S., Winiwarter, W. , Zaehle, S., Zhou, F., Jackson, R. B., Bange, H. W., Berthet, S., Bian, Z., Bianchi, D., Bouwman, A. F., Buitenhuis, E. T., Dutton, G., Hu, M., Ito, A., Jain, A. K., Jeltsch-Thömmes, A., Joos, F., Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Krummel, P. B., Lan, X., Landolfi, A., Lauerwald, R., Li, Y., Lu, C., Maavara, T., Manizza, M., Millet, D. B., Mühle, J., Patra, P. K., Peters, G. P., Qin, X., Raymond, P., Resplandy, L., Rosentreter, J. A., Shi, H., Sun, Q., Tonina, D., Tubiello, F. N., van der Werf, G. R., Vuichard, N., Wang, J., Wells, K. C., Western, L. M., Wilson, C., Yang, J., Yao, Y., You, Y., & Zhu, Q. (2024). Global nitrous oxide budget (1980--2020). Earth System Science Data 16 (6) 2543-2604. 10.5194/essd-16-2543-2024. Peichel, C.L., Bolnick, D.I., Brännström, Å., Dieckmann, U. , & Safran, R.J. (2024). Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology a041735. 10.1101/cshperspect.a041735. Hassani, H., Komendantova, N. , Rovenskaya, E. , & Yeganegi, R. (2024). Unveiling the waves of mis- and disinformation from social media. International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing 10.1142/S1793962324500338. Thompson, H.E., Gill, J.C., Sakic Trogrlic, R., Taylor, F.E., & Malamud, B.D. (2024). A methodology to compile multi-hazard interrelationships in a data-scarce setting: an application to Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 10.5194/nhess-2024-101. (Submitted)

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