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The DisruptSC model assesses the indirect economic impacts of disasters by explicitly quantifying the disturbances on supply chains. It simulates, in space and time, how transport infrastructure disruptions perturb the flows of goods in supply chains and how these perturbations affect households, firms, and trade.

Economic thinking has continuously sought inspiration from natural sciences such as physics, biology, and mechanics. Elena Rovenskaya, as part of her ongoing research in ASA, delivered a presentation on the ecological concepts and theories which can revive economic thinking to better inform competition law and policy formulations in a dynamic digital environment. 

Summer School on Integrated Assessment Models organized by RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment.

Florian Hofhansl reports on the IIASA Social and Cultural Association (SOCU)’s participation in the 2022 edition of the Lower Austria cycling initiative – Niederösterreich radelt.

Decision makers, European research networks, business developers, and NGOs are invited to be the protagonists of the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2023 from 4 to 6 October 2023 in Bolzano, Italy to test and improve open-source environmental monitors and dive into Open Earth Observation and Machine Learning technology to support the European Green Deal.

The Transformations within Reach initiative held its first online workshop on 27 October 2022. As a starting point, a group of experts synthesized how to catalyze societal transformations toward sustainability.

ERLENS will be the new Research Priority Area of the University of Amsterdam, aiming to stimulate and initiate research across faculties that maps the energy transition in the Netherlands and Europe against the SDGs beyond Dutch borders.

On 28 and 29 of November, Paris hosted senior policymakers, scientists, and industry stakeholders at the renowned 5^th Dialogue of Continents forum. This year’s theme "The End of Abundance, The Birth of Resilience" was set in view of President Macron’s recent speech, which cautioned that the world faces depleting natural resources and technological resources and hangs at a tipping point of reform.

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Building trust in science for a sustainable future

IIASA in partnership, HYDROPHIL, and InterSus, is organizing three stakeholder consultations in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro to present and discuss the preliminary water security diagnosis developed for each country under the framework of the “Europe and Central Asia Water Security Initiative” led by the Water Global Practice from the World Bank.

CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations that works to advance the lives of poor people, especially women, through financial inclusion.

Established by World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Task Teams will support the design, scope, and definition of the next phase of CMIP and evolution of CMIP infrastructure and future operationalization.

Julian Hunt writes about the challenges and opportunities that the development of a South American Waterway System could bring to the region.

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Science-informed policy is crucial to solving the interconnected and complex global to local problems society faces today. There is, however, one essential element that is critical to the success of such an ambitious endeavor: trust in the scientific information provided.

Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director Keywan Riahi has been invited as a speaker at the Global Leaders Forum 2022 in Korea.

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: How would your community cope if floods or wildfires raced through it? With a 1.5°C rise in global temperature drawing nearer, such crises become more likely, but it is hard to gauge how prepared communities are. Does everyone have savings in place? Could schools remain open? Do people know the flood drill?

Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA organized a series of celebratory activities with its member organizations throughout 2022 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking systems analysis research and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with the global scientific community.