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The National Academy of Sciences is one of the founding members of IIASA. The membership contribution for the US is supported by the National Science Foundation. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences served as NMO from 1982 until 2003.
Friends of IIASA (FoI) is a US-based non profit organisation that aims to foster and support research at and in cooperation with IIASA and the US research community and in close collaboration with the US NMO.
Main areas of collaborations:
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Advancing energy and integrated assessment modeling in the US
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Projecting changing population and human capital
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Improving the use of land for food and for combating climate change
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Increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities
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Analyzing ecological and evolutionary dynamics
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Developing the methods of systems analysis
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News
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).
18 January 2022
UW-Madison and IIASA partner on environmental policy projects
After more than 40 years of collaboration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IIASA have established a formal partnership on a variety of policy-relevant projects related to energy, climate, air quality, and more.
Focus
29 November 2021
Assessing the cost of a herd immunity approach to COVID-19 in the USA
Options Winter 2021: The herd immunity approach was initially considered as a management option for the COVID-19 pandemic. IIASA researchers looked at what the cost of inaction would have been in the USA.
17 June 2021
Getting a fuller picture of COVID-19 infections
Options Summer 2021: Knowing how many people are infected is key to accurately monitor pandemics. IIASA researchers used a novel approach to indirectly estimate the fraction of people ever infected and the fraction of people detected among the infected in the United States.
Events
26 May 2022 Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies
U.S. and IIASA Workshop on 50 Years of Building Research Bridges
24 October 2021 Anaheim, USA / Virtual
IIASA at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting 2021
22 June 2021 Virtual meeting
Columbia Climate School Conference 2021: At What Point Managed Retreat? Resilience, Relocation and Climate Justice
26 April 2021 Virtual event