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DisruptSupplyChain

The DisruptSupplyChain model assesses the indirect economic impacts of disasters by explicitly quantifying the disturbances on supply chains. It simulates, in space and time, how transport infrastructure disruptions perturb the flows of goods in supply chains and how these perturbations affect households, firms, and trade.

Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)

IPCC AR5 Scenarios Database (AR5)

The IPCC AR5 Scenarios Database documents the long-term scenarios as reviewed in the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)Sustainable Service Systems (S3)Pollution Management (PM)Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)

BeWhere

A model that optimizes the allocation of renewable energy systems from the local, regional, national or European level.

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)

Social and Policy Simulations

Social and policy simulations, as well as serious games, are participatory processes through which diverse societal stakeholders collectively explore a complex reality and complex challenges. These participatory processes combine both social and natural science insights to foster experiential learning. They enable participants to make sense of the complexity associated with policy issues, and reflect on system inter-linkages and stakeholder plurality. These methods have become increasingly recognised for informing and guiding policy in complex settings, including sustainable development, climate change mitigation/adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)Equity and Justice (EQU)

Austria

Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impact (MESSAGEix)

A modeling framework for medium to long-term energy system planning, energy policy analysis, and scenario development

Water Security (WAT)Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)Sustainable Service Systems (S3)Pollution Management (PM)Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)

Socio-Economic & Political Data Explorer

The Socio-Economic & Political Data Explorer is a tool for visualizing and downloading quantitative elaborations of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), which emerged in the literature since the publication of the original set (e.g., GDP, population) of SSP-related indicators. The tool hosts scenarios of indicators such as Gender Inequality Index, Governance, Rule of Law, Human Development Index, and Migration Flows.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Water Quality Modeling (WQM)

Water quality modeling for water availability/scarcity assessment, water-energy-land-environment nexus analysis and identification of cost-effective solutions under long-term changes.

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)Water Security (WAT)

Multidimensional Feasibility

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) develop long-term mitigation scenarios which play an essential role in the development of IPCC reports. These models, however, have been criticized for proposing solutions that are challenging to carry out due to a lack of consideration of social and institutional challenges. In the paper "A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios by person" (Brutschin, et al., 2021), scientists proposed a versatile, multidimensional framework that allows for comparisons between decarbonization pathways by quantifying feasibility concerns. This online, interactive tool was developed to complement this paper and allows the user to examine this framework in more detail.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Fair Mitigation Finance Explorer

The Fair Mitigation Finance Explorer is the web app accompanying the paper 'Fairness considerations in global mitigation investments' (Pachauri, et al., 2022). Users can select various indicators with a variety of weights to explore the ‘fair’ regional contributions to near-term regional mitigation investment needs. With this information, the web app determines the ‘fair-share’ regional contributions to their respective regional ‘cost-effective’ investment needs.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)

Plural Rationality Approach (PRA)

The Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group has developed a number of decision-support and process-oriented methods. These tools help stakeholders and policy-makers make sense of the complex governance landscape, while clarifying trade-offs and synergies associated with alternative policy options.

Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)Equity and Justice (EQU)

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Energy Access Interactive (ENACT)

An interactive Web-based scenario analysis tool which allows the assessment of multiple energy access policies.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)

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Low Energy Demand study (LED)

An exploratory research and resulting scenario about how far transformative changes on the energy end-use side can lead to.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)Sustainable Service Systems (S3)Pollution Management (PM)Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)