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.
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15 April 2020
COVID-19: An unprecedented shock to social and economic systems
Erich Striessnig discusses the risks posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic and shares insights from his latest research around socioeconomic indicators related to the pandemic in Austria.
08 April 2020
Reducing COVID-19 vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean
IIASA postdoc Raquel Guimaraes writes about efforts by the scientific community to encourage governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to increase COVID-19 test coverage to reduce vulnerability.
02 April 2020
Research-on-demand?
Leena Ilmola-Sheppard discusses the value of employing novel research methods aimed at producing fast results to inform policies that address immediate problems like the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Publications
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. European Commission , Brussels. 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.
Kikstra, J. , Vinca, A. , Lovat, F. , Boza-Kiss, B. , van Ruijven, B. , Wilson, C. , Rogelj, J. , Zakeri, B. , Fricko, O. , & Riahi, K. (2021). Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19-related energy demand changes. Nature Energy 6 1114-1123. 10.1038/s41560-021-00904-8.