
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is China’s National Member Organization (NMO).
Main areas of collaborations:

Sustainable agriculture and food security

Projecting changing population and human capital in China

Terrestrial carbon management in China

Tackling climate change and sustainable energy sources

Applying network analysis to study urban metabolism in Chinese cities

Developing strategies to clean up China’s air

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News

24 November 2022
2022 TWAS-Lenovo Science Award awarded to Fu Bojie

16 September 2022
Expand your horizons with a postdoctoral fellowship at IIASA

14 February 2022
Pursuing carbon neutrality and water security in China
Focus
28 November 2022
Analyzing urban metabolism in Beijing

07 November 2022
Promising climate progress


04 July 2022
Estimating global urbanization trends over the 21st century
Qingxu Huang shares insights from a recent article published in Nature Scientific Data on updating global urbanization projections under future scenarios of socioeconomic and climate change. The study was conducted in collaboration with Raya Muttarak from the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.
Publications
Heilig, G.K. (1997). Anthropogenic Factors in Land-Use Change in China. IIASA Research Report (Reprint). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RR-97-008. Reprinted from Population and Development Review, 23(1):139-168 [March 1997].
Zhao, D., Hubacek, K., Feng, K., Sun, L., & Liu, J. (2019). Explaining virtual water trade: A spatial-temporal analysis of the comparative advantage of land, labor and water in China. Water Research 153 304-314. 10.1016/j.watres.2019.01.025.
Heilig, G.K. (2003). Sustainable Regional and Rural Development in China: Where do we stand? IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-03-026
Liu, S., Li, X., & Zhang, M. (2003). Scenario Analysis on Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration in China. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-03-036
Heilig, G.K. (1996). Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Land-Use Change in China. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-011
Northway, S., Bull, G.Q., Shvidenko, A., & Bailey, L. (2009). Recent Developments in Forest Products Trade between Russia and China: Potential Production, Processing, Consumption and Trade Scenarios. Forest Trends Association, Washington, DC, USA (March 2009)