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In the IIASA Strategic Initiative fairSTREAM, we created a toolkit of participatory methods that can be adapted to facilitate co-production of knowledge. Co-produced knowledge integrates diverse scientific and social discourses to create relevant and legitimate opportunities in the context of complex problems. The TRUST Strategic Initiative, will expand this toolkit, highlighting its evolving nature.  

Scenarios as a decision-making tool help us to better understand the implications of a wide range of future possibilities considering existing development, strategies, and global interdependencies. Scenarios should be co-produced with their users, most often planner and decision makers.

A regional to global model designed to simulate and predict the dynamics of water quantity and quality under the influence of various drivers including; climate change, land-use transitions, socio-economic developments, and policy interventions. 

Guidebook for designing and running in-person workshops.

A tool for detailed assessment of available resources to support policymakers developing national, regional, and global strategies for the sustainable production of food

A global soil database, framed within a Geographic Information System, containing up-to-date information on world soil resources

A model that traces land and water use embodied in production, trade and consumption of agricultural commodities.

A global model to assess competition for land use between agriculture, bioenergy, and forestry

New tool to inform the design of cost-effective and sustainable water policy decisions

An open source model to examine how future water demand will evolve in response to socioeconomic change and how water availability will change in response to climate.

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

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

The BinD model is a new generation dynamic disaster-macroeconomic modeling framework that captures supply and demand-side constraints on a developing economy facing disaster risk.