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
31 March 2020
COVID-19: Visualizing regional indicators for better decision making
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, it is fast becoming clear that no one is exempt from its disruptive effects. IIASA researchers are working to visualize key demographic and socioeconomic information to help inform decisions by health professionals, governments, and policymakers to address the crisis.
16 March 2020
IIASA operational while taking coronavirus protective measures
In accordance with the Austrian government’s measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, IIASA premises in Laxenburg are closed. However, the institute remains operational via remote working.
Events
Virtual meeting
IIASA leadership at the S4D4C meeting on science diplomacy
Blog
06 May 2020
Resilience thinking: Preparing for and recovering from COVID-19 in the context of compound risks
The global COVID-19 crisis is challenging the social fabric of countries and communities across the globe. Interventions such as lockdowns, social distancing measures, and economic stimulus packages have been introduced to reinforce societal resilience. The resilience of national health systems is particularly in the spotlight – primarily keeping occupancy numbers of intensive care beds under a critical threshold, as well as improving access to basic health services for people infected with the virus, and ensuring that infections do not spread further.
29 April 2020
Air travel and COVID-19: How effective are travel bans?
Tamás Krisztin discusses the air travel restrictions instituted by governments across the globe and how effective they really are in terms of curbing the spread of COVID-19.
22 April 2020
Lifting COVID-19 restrictions: Visualizing real-time Twitter sentiments
Santosh Karanam describes his efforts to visualize people’s reactions to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in real time as they are expressed on Twitter.
Publications
Spitzer, S. , Shaikh, M., & Weber, D. (2022). Older Europeans’ health perception and their adaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Public Health ckab221. 10.1093/eurpub/ckab221.
Caulkins, J.P., Grass, D., Feichtinger, G., Hartl, R.F., Kort, P.M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Seidl, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2022). COVID-19 and Optimal Lockdown Strategies: The Effect of New and More Virulent Strains. In: Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection. Eds. Boado-Penas, M.C., Eisenberg, J., & Şahin, Ş., pp. 163-190 Springer, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-78334-1 10.1007/978-3-030-78334-1_9.
Kanaya, Y., Yamaji, K., Miyakawa, T., Taketani, F., Zhu, C., Choi, Y., Ikeda, K., Tanimoto, H., Yamada, D., Narita, D., Kondo, Y., & Klimont, Z. (2021). Dominance of the residential sector in Chinese black carbon emissions as identified from downwind atmospheric observations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports 11 (1) e23378. 10.1038/s41598-021-02518-2.
Liu, Y., Cui, Q., Liu, Y., Zhang, J., Zhou, M., Ali, T., Yang, L., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., & Li, X. (2021). Countermeasures against economic crisis from COVID-19 pandemic in China: An analysis of effectiveness and trade-offs. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 59 482-495. 10.1016/j.strueco.2021.09.017.
López-Vergès, S., Urbani, B., Fernández Rivas, D., Kaur-Ghumaan, S., Coussens, A.K., Moronta-Barrios, F., Bhattarai, S., Niamir, L. , Siciliano, V., Molnar, A., Weltman, A., Dhimal, M., Arya, S.S., Cloete, K.J., Awan, A.T., Kohler, S., Sharma, C.S., Rios Rojas, C., Shimpuku, Y., Ganle, J., Matin, M.M., Nzweundji, J.G., Badre, A., & Carmona-Mora, P. (2021). Mitigating losses: how scientific organisations can help address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early-career researchers. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8 (1) e284. 10.1057/s41599-021-00944-1.
Di Baldassarre, G., Mondino, E., Rusca, M., Del Giudice, E., Mård, J., Ridolfi, E., Scolobig, A., & Raffetti, E. (2021). Multiple hazards and risk perceptions over time: the availability heuristic in Italy and Sweden under COVID-19. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 21 (11) 3439-3447. 10.5194/nhess-21-3439-2021.
Yokomatsu, M., Park, H., Kotani, H., & Ito, H. (2021). Designing the building space of a shopping street to use as a disaster evacuation shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study in Kobe, Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 67 e102680. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102680.
European Commission, (2021). Climate Action in the Post-COVID-19 world: Insights from EU-funded projects on how to build forward better. pp. 27-32 Brussels: European Commission. ISBN 978-92-76-40952-6 10.2777/02755.
Pachauri, S. , Poblete-Cazenave, M., Aktas, A., & Gidden, M.J. (2021). Access to clean cooking services in energy and emission scenarios after COVID-19. Nature Energy 6 1067-1076. 10.1038/s41560-021-00911-9.