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News
22 July 2024
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) visits IIASA
On 22 July, 2024, a high-level delegation from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), led by Professor Tran Tuan Anh, visited IIASA to meet with Director General John Schellnhuber and IIASA researchers to discuss ongoing research projects and opportunities.
10 June 2024
Analyzing the benefits of transboundary cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin
A new study conducted by IIASA researchers and their colleagues highlights that cooperation in infrastructure operation between countries surrounding the Lancang-Mekong River Basin could bring major economic and environmental co-benefits.
Events
Focus
07 November 2022
Promising climate progress
Policy Brief #34, October 2023. Recent net-zero pledges could take the world a long way towards meeting the Paris climate goals, but an ambition gap remains.
01 June 2022
Shocking economics
IIASA is developing new ways to explore the economics of disruptive change, casting light on our responses to pandemics and natural disasters.
Projects
Pollution Management in the Hanoi Region (GAINS Vietnam)
Pollution Management and Environmental Health (PMEH)
Publications
Barthelme, P., Darbyshire, E., Spracklen, D.V., & Watmough, G. (2024). Detecting Vietnam War bomb craters in declassified historical KH-9 satellite imagery. Science of Remote Sensing 10 e100143. 10.1016/j.srs.2024.100143. Freiberger, M., Hoffmann, R., & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2024). Should I stay or should I go: Modelling disaster risk behaviour using a dynamic household level approach. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-010 Ngo, T.A., See, L. , Leisz, S.J., Tran, N.B., Dinh, T.H.V., & Nguyen, T.H. (2024). Spatial assessment of pollutant loads for surface water quality management: a case study in Lai Chau city, Vietnam. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1345 (1) e012012. 10.1088/1755-1315/1345/1/012012. 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.