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The blog is an informal outlet for IIASA researchers and the wider IIASA global network to share their research, insights, and perspectives. It does not necessarily represent the official views or position of the institute.

Morning fog over rain forest in Colombia

14 July 2023

Ambitious ecological restoration and deforestation control strategies could support Colombia’s climate and biodiversity targets

IIASA researchers Juliana Arbelaez-Gaviria and Eleanor Warren-Thomas have coauthored a new policy brief published with the Colombia team of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium, an initiative under the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) and part of the UN Sustainable Development and Solutions Network (UNSDSN). The brief outlines how deforestation and ecological restoration in Colombia may impact carbon, biodiversity, and agricultural production by 2030.

Network Science into Policy Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM) Postdoc Colombia United Kingdom

Thousands of people marched and held signs during the March for Science on Earth Day to defend the vital role of science in our lives in March 2017

03 July 2023

The science activist: should science get political?

For science to become more value-neutral and less biased, it needs to question existing social norms and transcend the status quo, writes Pratik Patil, a researcher in the Advancing Systems Analysis Program and a member of the Transformations within Reach initiative coordination team.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)

19 June 2023

A community-driven flood resilience information platform for Nicaragua

IIASA researchers and colleagues from Plan International are using modern digital tools to enhance community-driven flood resilience in rural flood-prone communities in Nicaragua.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Nicaragua

Illustration of Vienna Skyline with Color Buildings, Blue Sky and Reflections.

16 May 2023

Would Vienna still be Vienna without migrants?

What would Vienna look like without migrants, and what kind of socioeconomic implications would such a situation have? IIASA researchers Anne Goujon and Thomas Schinko delved into these questions in response to a recent public debate on the topic.

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU) Austria

Jigsaw puzzle collaboration/co-creation concept

08 May 2023

Stakeholder engagement, co-production, and transdisciplinary research

Co-production is a term that has been cropping up more and more in discussions about public involvement and is fast becoming an integral feature of many research processes and proposals. Susanne Hanger-Kopp explains why not every project can or should include elements of co-production and how to make the most of such processes when they are used.

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)

20 April 2023

2030 nature targets agreed in December may already be slipping out of reach

IIASA researcher Richard Cornford and colleagues discuss the need for urgent action to stop biodiversity declines, and caution that ambitious targets to stop these declines by 2030 may already be slipping out of reach, in an article just published in The Conversation.

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)

30 March 2023

ChatGPT – what is it, and what can it do for scientists?

Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence chatbot, developed by private company OpenAI, allows a user to generate content. It can create poems, articles, short stories, and even jokes. How can researchers benefit from this seemingly revolutionary tool? And why has it sparked controversies, particularly among the scientific community?

16 March 2023

Artificial intelligence, fairness, and digital regulation: can the West learn from China?

Western accounts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China often paint a dystopian picture of an Orwellian surveillance state. But what really makes industry practitioners in the world's second-largest digital economy tick? 2022 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participant Junhua Zhu, wants to lift the veil, taking a deep dive into the Chinese AI ecosystem.

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) YSSP China

Modern agricultural technology concepts superimposed on seedling

15 February 2023

From farm to space and back: adapting Austrian agriculture to climate change

Juan Carlos Laso Bayas and colleagues reflect on the outcomes of the SATFARM Services project, which set out to create models that demonstrate the potential of satellite data to track climate-smart agricultural practices and visualize indicators to track their success in a prototype web platform for Austrian farmers.

Science into Policy Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Austria

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