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News
29 November 2023
Embracing ecological perspectives, tools, and models to navigate the digital economy
Digitalization has ushered in new markets worldwide and in BRICS countries. However, the concentration of market power and digital resources by only a handful of digital platform ecosystems (DPEs) has also triggered new governance challenges, particularly, for BRICS countries. As part of the dissemination process of the ECOANTITRUST initiative, Elena Rovenskaya delivered a presentation on the adoption of ecological insights and tools to improve understanding of the complex nature of digital platforms, their ecosystems, and their interactions with the wider economy.
23 November 2022
What was the true human cost of the pandemic in Russia?
A new study assesses the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and introduces a novel methodology that will help to get a clearer view of pandemics in the future.
31 January 2022
Forest management increases climate benefits provided by boreal forests
The carbon stock in managed boreal forest landscapes is increasing, while it is relatively unchanged in less intensively utilized forests where carbon losses due to forest fires have instead been significant during 1990-2017, according to a new report by the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA).
Events
Saint Petersburg, Russia
IIASA at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021
IIASA at the International Conference “Risk Management in the Energy Sector 2021"
Risk Management in Energy Post-COVID-19
Focus
19 October 2026
Arms, food, and nuclear winter: An IIASA modeling story spanning 40 years
In the 1980s, IIASA researchers asked what cutting military budgets and redirecting these funds to agriculture could do for the world's food supply. Today, researchers at the Institute are asking the reverse question: what would happen to the world’s food if nuclear weapons were used? A folder of working papers from 40 years ago highlights some striking connections between these two questions.
Annual Report 2025
Annual Report 2025: Advancing Systems Analysis Program Highlights
As global challenges become increasingly interconnected, the Advancing Systems Analysis Program continued to develop innovative approaches for understanding complexity and supporting better decisions. In 2025, the program’s research revealed new insights into urban sustainability, resilience in an era of polycrisis, public health, and sustainable development.
Projects
ECOANTITRUST
Prospects And Possible Scenarios for Scaling Up Carbon Farming and Trade in Eurasia (CAMEA)
Systems analysis of patterns of COVID-19 spread in Europe and Russia
Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities (INFRANORTH)
Publications
Shchepashchenko, D. (2026). Managed Land Mask for Russia (2020) Aligned with UNFCCC Inventory Reporting. 10.5281/zenodo.19492513.
Kuksin, G., Sekerin, I., See, L. , & Shchepashchenko, D. (2026). Overwintering Peat Fires in Russia’s Boreal Forests: Persistence, Detection, and Suppression. Fire 9 e144. 10.3390/fire9040144.
Shvidenko, A., Ciais, P., Patra, P.K., Bastos, A., Maksyutov, S., Lauerwald, R., Poulter, B., Belikov, D., Chandra, N., Glagolev, M., Terentieva, I., Karelin, D., Kurbatova, J., Kurganova, I., Romanovskaya, A., Korotkov, V., Mukhortova, L., Prokushkin, A., Gustafson, E., Kraxner, F., Mamkin, V., Lukina, N., Krasovskiy, A. , Vaganov, E., & Shchepashchenko, D. (2025). A System Reanalysis of the Current Greenhouse Gases Budget of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Russia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39 (10) e2025GB008540. 10.1029/2025GB008540.
Shchepashchenko, D. , Mukhortova, L., & Shvidenko, A. (2025). Estimation of Impact of Disturbances on Soil Respiration in Forest Ecosystems of Russia. Forests 16 (6) e925. 10.3390/f16060925.
Scherbov, S. , Gietel-Basten, S., Ediev, D. , Shulgin, S., & Sanderson, W. (2022). COVID-19 and excess mortality in Russia: Regional estimates of life expectancy losses in 2020 and excess deaths in 2021. PLOS ONE 17 (11) e0275967. 10.1371/journal.pone.0275967.
Schweitzer, P. & Povoroznyuk, O. (2022). Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 24 (3) 297-308. 10.1080/1523908X.2022.2051455.