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The following statistics are from the last 5 full calendar years: 2021-2025
Publications
Projects
Engagement
41
Number of times participants from Finland joined IIASA events
12
Number of times visitors from Finland came to IIASA
61
IIASA staff visits to Finland
People
13
- Women
- Men
Staff members from Finland
1
- Women
- Men
Postdoctoral researchers from Finland
3
- Women
- Men
YSSPers from Finland
189
- Women
- Men
- Unknown
Total number of alumni from Finland
News
04 February 2026
An integrated, society-centered approach to reducing pollution in European cities
End of January saw the launch of the new EU-funded ATMOPOLIS project, an innovative study that integrates environmental and social sciences to understand how air and noise pollution exposure affect citizens across European cities and propose actions to help improve their quality of life. IIASA researchers are leading a work package to develop an integrated decision support tool for cities.
12 January 2026
Trees4Adapt project to address risks from climate change and biodiversity loss through tree-based solutions
Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate adaptation, aiming to strengthen Europe’s adaptation and resilience to climate change in a way that supports people and nature.
12 December 2025
Subnational income inequality: Regional successes may hold key to addressing widening gap globally
A new study visualizes three decades of income inequality data, the most comprehensive worldwide mapping to be done at a subnational level. The results confirm worsening income inequality for areas with over 3.6 billion inhabitants but also reveals hidden ‘bright spots’ where policy may be closing the gap.
Events
Focus
Annual Report 2024
Annual Report 2024: Strengthening Partnerships Highlights
In 2024, IIASA expanded its global partnerships to drive collaborative research and policy innovation in sustainability, climate action, and systems science through new agreements, joint initiatives, and high-level engagements.
Addressing landscape justice in Atlantic salmon fishing in Finland
Options Magazine, Winter 2023: An international team of researchers explored a more inclusive and locally attuned approach to governance, challenging the existing top-down model and advocating for a holistic consideration of the socio-cultural and economic dimensions of Atlantic salmon fishing in Northern Fennoscandia.
Projects
The Human-Tech Nexus - Building a Safe Haven to Cope with Climate Extremes (HuT)
Leveraging the potential of tree-based solutions for adaptation in Europe (Trees4Adapt)
GRANULAR – Better Knowledge for better rural policies
Navigating the risks of hydroclimatic extremes for freshwater ecosystem services in forest landscape (REACTION)
Publications
Landauer, M., Joona, J., & Keskitalo, P. (2023). Stakeholder Perceptions of Landscape Justice in the Case of Atlantic Salmon Fishing in Northern Finland. Land 12 (6) e1174. 10.3390/land12061174.
Marois, G. , Rotkirch, A., & Lutz, W. (2022). Future population ageing and productivity in Finland under different education and fertility scenarios. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 56 137-160. 10.23979/fypr.119666.
Rasmus, S., Wallen, H., Turunen, M., Landauer, M., Tahkola, J., Jokinen, M., & Laaksonen, S. (2021). Land-use and climate related drivers of change in the reindeer management system in Finland: Geography of perceptions. Applied Geography 134 e102501. 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102501.
Landauer, M., Rasmus, S., & Forbes, B.C. (2021). What drives reindeer management in Finland towards social and ecological tipping points? Regional Environmental Change 21 (2) e32. 10.1007/s10113-021-01757-3.
Sarkki, S., Rasmus, S., Landauer, M., Lépy, É., & Heikkinen, H.I. (2021). Matching societal knowledge demand, research funding and scientific knowledge supply: trends and co-creation dynamics around reindeer management in Finland. Polar Geography 44 (2) 90-111. 10.1080/1088937X.2020.1755905.
Komendantova, N. (2021). Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran. Energy Research & Social Science 71 e101826. 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101826.