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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
25 January 2023
Driving inclusive and green urban transitions
A new Horizon Europe project led by IIASA called Urban ReLeaf leverages citizen science for public sector innovation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Publications
McGrath, M., Petrescu, A., Peylin, P., Andrew, R., Matthews, B., Dentener, F., Balkovič, J. , Bastrikov, V., Becker, M., Broquet, G., Ciais, P., Fortems, A., Ganzenmüller, R., Grassi, G., Harris, I., Jones, M., Knauer, J., Kuhnert, M., Monteil, G., Munassar, S., Palmer, P., Peters, G., Qiu, C., Schelhaas, M.-J., Tarasova, O., Vizzarri, M., Winkler, K., Balsamo, G., Berchet, A., Briggs, P., Brockmann, P., Chevallier, F., Conchedda, G., Crippa, M., Dellaert, S., Denier van der Gon, H., Filipek, S., Friedlingstein, P., Fuchs, R., Gauss, M., Gerbig, C., Guizzardi, D., Günther, D., Houghton, R., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Lauerwald, R., Lerink, B., Luijkx, I., Moulas, G., Muntean, M., Nabuurs, G.-J., Paquirissamy, A., Perugini, L., Peters, W., Pilli, R., Pongratz, J., Regnier, P., Scholze, M., Serengil, Y., Smith, P., Solazzo, E., Thompson, R., Tubiello, F., Vesala, T., & Walther, S. (2022). Data for the consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for EU27 and UK: 1990-2020. 10.5281/zenodo.7365863.
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.