The latest news, research, and other resources produced by members of the IIASA community who are working to provide decision-makers with the information they need to address the COVID-19 crisis.
News
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.
23 November 2022
What was the true human cost of the pandemic in Russia?
A new study assesses the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and introduces a novel methodology that will help to get a clearer view of pandemics in the future.
19 October 2022
Why do COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist on social media?
IIASA researchers have analyzed the discussion on eight different conspiracy theories that was spread widely on Twitter during the pandemic. Their work makes it possible to not only estimate the number of conspiracy related tweets, but also to compare the theories among themselves and identify patterns in their discussion.
Events
27 October 2022 Virtual Meeting
First Meeting of TwR Community of Science and Practice (CoSP)
10 August 2022 New Delhi
International Conference: Systems Analysis for Enabling Integrated Policy Making
22 November 2021 Virtual event
IIASA brings transdisciplinary research insights to the Canadian Science Policy Conference 2021
Blog
20 May 2021
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the urban poor?
Benigna Boza-Kiss, Shonali Pachauri, and Caroline Zimm explain how COVID-19 has impacted the poor in cities and what can be done to increase the future resilience of vulnerable populations.
15 April 2021
Using the COVID-19 pandemic to transform the energy sector
The IIASA-ISC Rethinking Energy Solutions Report identifies the negative and positive lessons learnt from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in relation to energy consumption and demand, and recommends several immediate actions.
08 April 2021
Restructuring the food system after COVID-19
The IIASA-ISC Resilient Food Systems report looks at the vulnerabilities in the food system and recommends changes to move forward through COVID-19 recovery plans that prioritize society’s least protected.
Publications
Sperling, F., Havlik, P. , Denis, M., Valin, H. , Palazzo, A. , Gaupp, F., & Visconti, P. (2022). Toward resilient food systems after COVID-19. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 4 e100110. 10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100110.
Di Giulio, P., Goujon, A. , Marois, G. , & Goldstein, J., eds. (2022). Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022: Special Issue on Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences. Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M., Rowe, F., & Fresolone-Caparrós, A. (2022). Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and where? Journal of Rural Studies 96 332-342. 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.11.006.
Özdemir, C., Reiter, C. , Yildiz, D. , & Goujon, A. (2022). Projections of adult skills and the effect of COVID-19. PLoS ONE 17 (11) e0277113. 10.1371/journal.pone.0277113.
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M. & Spijker, J. (2022). The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020–31: A scenario approach. Population Studies 1-17. 10.1080/00324728.2022.2138521.
Scherbov, S. , Gietel-Basten, S., Ediev, D. , Shulgin, S., & Sanderson, W. (2022). COVID-19 and excess mortality in Russia: Regional estimates of life expectancy losses in 2020 and excess deaths in 2021. PLOS ONE 17 (11) e0275967. 10.1371/journal.pone.0275967.
Yazdanpanah, M., Komendantova, N. , Ekenberg, L. , & Al-Salaymeh, A. (2022). Editorial: Addressing the effects of COVID-19 on rural areas in low and middle income countries. Frontiers in Public Health 10 e976978. 10.3389/fpubh.2022.976978.
Erokhin, D., Yosipof, A., & Komendantova, N. (2022). COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter. Social Media + Society 8 (4) 1-10. 10.1177/20563051221126051.
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M. & Rowe, F. (2022). Visualizing the impact of COVID-19 on internal and international migration in the Spanish provinces. Regional Studies, Regional Science 9 (1) 600-602. 10.1080/21681376.2022.2125824.
Chang, S.E., Brown, C., Handmer, J., Helgeson, J., Kajitani, Y., Keating, A., Noy, I., Watson, M., Derakhshan, S., Kim, J., & Roa-Henriquez, A. (2022). Business recovery from disasters: Lessons from natural hazards and the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 80 e103191. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103191.