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News
12 August 2024
RESIST updates
The RESIST project has made significant progress through active collaboration with IIASA's National Member Organizations (NMO). Key recent achievements include setting up collaborations with national researcher partners and consulting with local experts and stakeholders in respective case study regions (listed below).
08 March 2024
The Archimedes Center: advancing systems analysis in Israel
In 2023, IIASA collaborated with Tel Aviv University and the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, to set up a new national research center focusing on a broad set of scientific fields related to systems analysis in Israel.
29 September 2023
Ron Milo from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel visits IIASA
IIASA recently welcomed Ron Milo, an Associate Professor from the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, to discuss ongoing research projects and explore future collaborations between the two institutes.
Events
Archimedes Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Workshop on MESSAGEix and GAINS models at the new Archimedes Center
Focus
02 October 2023
Feasible futures
Policy Brief #41, October 2023. Embracing the notion of feasibility, this research shows that the world will probably overshoot
1.5°C, largely owing to low institutional capacity. Energy demand reduction and electrification are two options to turn down the heat, and addressing weak institutions is crucial.
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.
Projects
Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST)
Water Futures and Solutions for Israel (WFaS-Israel)
Publications
Elroy, O., Woo, G., Komendantova, N. , & Yosipof, A. (2025). A dual-focus analysis of wikipedia traffic and linguistic patterns in public risk awareness Post-Charlie Hebdo. Computers in Human Behavior Reports 17 e100580. 10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100580. Tebecis, T. & Crespo Cuaresma, J. (2025). A dataset of structural breaks in greenhouse gas emissions for climate policy evaluation. Scientific Data 12 (1) 10.1038/s41597-024-04321-w. Myburgh, S., Kosatica, E., Pfister, S., Kissinger, M., Fridman, D. , & Koellner, T. (2024). An integrated biophysical-ecological assessment of embedded virtual water flows linked to Israel's consumption of agricultural crops. Science of the Total Environment 955 e177195. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177195. Zelingher, R. & Crespo Cuaresma, J. (2024). Commentary: From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 8 e1511320. 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1511320. Lembo, V., Bordoni, S., Bevacqua, E., Domeisen, D.I.V., Franzke, C.L.E., Galfi, V.M., Garfinkel, C.I., Grams, C.M., Hochman, A., Jha, R., Kornhuber, K., Kwasniok, F., Lucarini, V., Messori, G., Pappert, D., Perez-Fernandez, I., Riboldi, J., Russo, E., Shaw, T.A., Strigunova, I., Strnad, F., Yiou, P., & Zagar, N. (2024). Dynamics, Statistics, and Predictability of Rossby Waves, Heat Waves, and Spatially Compounding Extreme Events. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 105 (12) E2283-E2293. 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0145.1. Orlov, A., De Hertog, S.J., Havermann, F., Guo, S., Manola, I., Lejeune, Q., Schleussner, C.-F., Thiery, W., Pongratz, J., Humpenöder, F., Popp, A., Aunan, K., Armstrong, B., Royé, D., Cvijanovic, I., Lavigne, E., Achilleos, S., Bell, M., Masselot, P., Sera, F., Vicedo-Cabrera, A.M., Gasparrini, A., & Mistry, M.N. (2024). Impacts of land-use and land-cover changes on temperature-related mortality. Environmental Epidemiology 8 (6) e337. 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000337.