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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
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.
28 November 2022
Improving water-energy access in Central Asia
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: To help mitigate the water crisis in Central Asia, researchers devised a carbon-neutral and reliable regional strategy by building seasonal pumped storage plants in major rivers.
Projects
Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities (INFRANORTH)
Systems analysis of patterns of COVID-19 spread in Europe and Russia
Publications
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. Schenuit, F. (2021). Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance in Practice: Assessing developments in Brazil, China, India and Russia. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA Fadeev, A., Komendantova, N. , Cherepovitsyn, A., Tsvetkova, A., & Paramonov, I. (2021). Methods and priorities for human resource planning in oil and gas projects in Russia and OPEC. OPEC Energy Review 10.1111/opec.12213. Böttcher, K., Paunu, V.-V., Kupiainen, K., Zhizhin, M., Matveev, A., Savolahti, M., Klimont, Z. , Väätäinen, S., Lamberg, H., & Karvosenoja, N. (2021). Black carbon emissions from flaring in Russia in the period 2012-2017. Atmospheric Environment 254 e118390. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118390. Sheil, D., Nabuurs, G.-J., & Shvidenko, A. (2021). Hopes for Russia’s new forest code. Science 372 (6541) 472-473. 10.1126/science.abi9095.