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NMO Institute

United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Member since 2015
Council Member

Dr. Sarah Webb

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Polaris House
SN2 IEU, Swindon

NMO Secretary

Matthew Dobson

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Polaris House
SN2 IEU, Swindon

United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) represent the United Kingdom’s membership of IIASA.

Main areas of collaborations:

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Applying integrated assessment models to identify strategies to tackle Climate Change

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Investigating ways to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels

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Improving our understanding of the carbon cycle and the roles played by forests and agricultural lands

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Enhancing climate and disaster resilience in the UK, Europe and the developing World

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Understanding ecological responses to natural and anthropogenic drivers of change

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Advancing the methods of systems analysis

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News

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13 June 2022

Nadejda Komendantova appointed to UK Digital Environment Expert Network

IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group Leader, Nadejda Komendantova, has been appointed as an international expert for the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)’s Constructing a Digital Environment Program.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)

Covid-19 Coronavirus Spreading Across Europe

15 July 2021

Tracking COVID-19 across Europe

According to the World Health Organization, a third wave of COVID infections is now all but inevitable in Europe. A COVID tracker developed by IIASA researcher Asjad Naqvi, aims to identify, collect, and collate various official regional datasets for European countries, while also combining and homogenizing the data to help researchers and policymakers explore how the virus spreads.

Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)

Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)

11 February 2021

Raising climate ambitions could save millions of lives

Adopting policies that are consistent with achieving the Paris Agreement and prioritize health, could annually save 6.4 million lives due to healthier diets, 1.6 million lives due to cleaner air, and 2.1 million lives due to increased physical activity, according to new research.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Pollution Management (PM)

United States of America

Focus

24 August 2020

How COVID-19 complicates the journey for climate migrants

Lisa Thalheimer shares her journey in researching climate-related migration in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of taking mental health issues into account in climate science and the policy realm.

COVID-19 Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) United Kingdom United States of America

11 August 2020

What did we learn from COVID-19 models?

IIASA researcher Sibel Eker explores the usefulness and reliability of COVID-19 models for informing decision making about the extent of the epidemic and the healthcare problem.

COVID-19 Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Austria United Kingdom United States of America

Publications

Starnes, T., Beresford, A.E., Buchanan, G.M., Lewis, M. , Hughes, A., & Gregory, R.D. (2021). The extent and effectiveness of protected areas in the UK. Global Ecology and Conservation 30 e01745. 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01745.

Jellesmark, S., Ausden, M., Blackburn, T.M., Gregory, R.D., Hoffmann, M., Massimino, D., McRae, L., & Visconti, P. (2021). A counterfactual approach to measure the impact of wet grassland conservation on UK breeding bird populations. Conservation Biology 35 (5) 1575-1585. 10.1111/cobi.13692.

Callen, J., Takamasa, A., & Toma, H. (2019). Insights to the UK's impending departure from Euratom: Case study of UK nuclear safeguards and radiation protection in light of Brexit. Energy Policy 129 1416-1422. 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.01.074.

Termansen, M., Chapman, D.S., Quinn, C.H., Fraser, E.D.G., Jin, N., Beharry-Borg, N., & Hubacek, K. (2019). Modelling land use dynamics in socio-ecological systems: A case study in the UK uplands. Advances in Ecological Research 60 125-152. 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.03.002.

Warr, B., Schandl, H., & Ayres, R.U. (2008). Long term trends in resource exergy consumption and useful work supplies in the UK, 1900 to 2000. Ecological Economics 68 (1) 126-140. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.02.019.

Zon, A. van & Fuss, S. (2008). Risk, embodied technical change and irreversible investment decisions in UK electricity production: An optimum technology portfolio approach. In: Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security. Eds. Bazilian, M. & Roques, F., Amsterdam: Elsevier. 10.1016/B978-0-08-056887-4.00014-7.