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India’s Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) represents India and its scholarly community at IIASA. TIFAC has established a national committee for the India–IIASA Programme to oversee research collaborations and capacity-building activities between the Indian research community and IIASA.
Main areas of collaborations:
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Improving land, soil, and water management in India
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Energy and climate change modeling
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Increasing India’s resilience to natural disasters
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Projecting India’s demographic changes
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Managing India’s forests for the future
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Smart ways to clean up India’s air
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News
22 September 2022
An integrated modeling framework to assess surface and groundwater resources
Against the backdrop of climate change and rising water demand, tools for adequately modeling water availability are much needed. In a new study, researchers applied a large-scale model linking surface water to groundwater, which can be used for estimating water resources at a high spatial resolution.
29 April 2022
FairSTREAM updates
In 2021, the fairSTREAM project was selected as one of the first high impact Strategic Initiatives at IIASA. Below is an update on what the project has achieved to date.
13 September 2021
Balancing food security and nitrogen use
Environmental targets to limit excess nitrogen require the large-scale deployment of dedicated nitrogen mitigation strategies to avoid a strong increase in the risk of food insecurity. Without these measures, the amount of dietary energy available to people would be greatly reduced, which would in turn lead to high food prices and an increase in the number of undernourished people.
Focus
04 December 2022
Celebrating 50 years of global collaboration
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA organized a series of celebratory activities with its member organizations throughout 2022 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking systems analysis research and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with the global scientific community.
07 November 2022
A fair climate
Policy Brief #35, October 2022. Sharing mitigation fairly between countries doesn’t have to be expensive.
15 September 2022
Meet the 2022 YSSP scholarship recipients
Each year, select Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participants win a scholarship to support their travel and research. In 2022, IIASA welcomed Swaptik Chowdhury, the recipient of the Roger Levien Fellowship, and Chayasmita Deka, who received the Professor Jyoti and Professor Kirit Parikh Fellowship.
Publications
Kshatri, S.S., Dhillon, J., Mishra, S., Haghighi, A.T., Hunt, J. , & Patro, E.R. (2022). Comparative Reliability Assessment of Hybrid Si/SiC and Conventional Si Power Module Based PV Inverter Considering Mission Profile of India and Denmark Locations. Energies 15 (22) 10.3390/en15228612.
Agarwal, P. (2022). Air quality benefits from mitigation of Black Carbon emissions in Northern India. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Deka, C. (2022). Adoption of Electric Vehicles by the Middle-Income Group in India: A Comparison of Gain, Norm, Fear & Protection Motivators and Other Factors. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Dimitrova, A., Marois, G. , Kiesewetter, G., Rafaj, P. , Pachauri, S. , K.C., S., Olmos, S., Rasella, D., & Tonne, C. (2022). Projecting the impact of air pollution on child stunting in India – synergies and trade-offs between climate change mitigation, ambient air quality control, and clean cooking access. Environmental Research Letters 17 (10) e104004. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8e89.
Patange, O. , Garg, A., & Jayaswal, S. (2022). An integrated bottom-up optimization to investigate the role of BECCS in transitioning towards a net-zero energy system: A case study from Gujarat, India. Energy 255 e124508. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124508.
Jha, C.K., Ghosh, R.K., Saxena, S., Singh, V., Mosnier, A., Perez Guzman, K. , Stevanović, M., Popp, A., & Lotze-Campen, H. (2022). Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India. Sustainability Science 10.1007/s11625-022-01193-0.