
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) is the IIASA National Member Organization (NMO) for Vietnam and its scholarly community.
Main areas of collaborations:

Identifying the most efficient and effective measures to tackle a country’s air pollution

Advancing the modeling of energy and climate change

Developing methods and tools to guide pathways for sustainable land use

Projecting demographic change in Vietnam

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Events
Focus
07 November 2022
Promising climate progress

01 June 2022
Shocking economics

Projects
Publications
Duc, N.H., Kumar, P., Lan, P.P., Kurniawan, T.A., Khedher, K.M., Kharrazi, A. , Saito, O., & Avtar, R. (2023). Hydrochemical indices as a proxy for assessing land-use impacts on water resources: a sustainable management perspective and case study of Can Tho City, Vietnam. Natural Hazards 117 (3) 2573-2615. 10.1007/s11069-023-05957-4. Rözer, V., Surminski, S., Laurien, F. , McQuistan, C., & Mechler, R. (2023). Multiple resilience dividends at the community level: A comparative study of disaster risk reduction interventions in different countries. Climate Risk Management 40 e100518. 10.1016/j.crm.2023.100518. van Dijk, M., de Lange, T., van Leeuwen, P., & Debie, P. (2022). Occupations on the map: Using a super learner algorithm to downscale labor statistics. PLoS ONE 17 (12) e0278120. 10.1371/journal.pone.0278120. Rozer, V., Surminski, S., Laurien, F. , McQuistan, C., & Mechler, R. (2021). Multiple resilience dividends at the community level: A comparative study on disaster risk reduction interventions in different countries. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper 385/Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 357, London School of Economics and Political Science , London, UK. Couasnon, A., Eilander, D., Muis, S., Veldkamp, T., Haigh, I., Wahl, T., Winsemius, H., & Ward, P. (2020). Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 20 (2) 489-504. 10.5194/nhess-20-489-2020. Nguyen, B. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Karner, M., Truong, A.H., & Nguyen, T.Q. (2020). CraftQuest—Mobile App for Collecting Craft Village Data. In: Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications. pp. 222-231 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-32-9185-0 10.1007/978-981-32-9186-7_24. Truong, A.H., Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., & Ha-Duong, M. (2019). Reducing emissions of the fast growing Vietnamese coal sector: the chances offered by biomass co-firing. Journal of Cleaner Production 215 1301-1311. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.065. Amann, M. , Klimont, Z. , An Ha, T., Rafaj, P. , Kiesewetter, G. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Nguyen, B. , Thi Thu, T.N., Thuy, K., Schöpp, W. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Wagner, F. , Sander, R. , Heyes, C. , Cofala, J., Trung, N.Q., Dat, N.T., & Tung, N.N. (2019). Future air quality in Ha Noi and northern Vietnam. IIASA Research Report. Laxenburg, Austria: RR-19-003 Bruckman, V., Haruthaithanasan, M., Miller, R., Terada, T., Brenner, A.-K., Kraxner, F., & Flaspohler, D. (2018). Sustainable Forest Bioenergy Development Strategies in Indochina: Collaborative Effort to Establish Regional Policies. Forests 9 (4) e223. 10.3390/f9040223. Porwollik, V., Müller, C., Elliott, J., Chryssanthacopoulos, J., Iizumi, T., Ray, D.K., Ruane, A.C., Arneth, A., Balkovic, J. , Ciais, P., Deryng, D., Folberth, C. , Izaurralde, R.C., Jones, C.D., Khabarov, N. , Lawrence, P.J., Liu, W., Pugh, T.A.M., Reddy, A., Sakurai, G., Schmid, E., Wang, X., de Wit, A., & Wu, X. (2017). Spatial and temporal uncertainty of crop yield aggregations. European Journal of Agronomy 88 10-21. 10.1016/j.eja.2016.08.006.