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Applied Justice Taxonomy and Assessment Framework (AJUST)

The AJUST Framework comprehensively outlines justice in its multiple aspects with the aim to facilitate justice assessment across diverse research and policy contexts. It is meant to be accessible across disciplines, powerful in terms of capacity to express a variety of justice ideas, and modular so researchers can select and deploy the aspects that are most appropriate or useful.
Equity and Justice (EQU) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
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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
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Design Thinking (DT)

Design Thinking (DT) is a participatory approach that focuses on understanding user-design problems with a variety of “products” and to create and test innovative problem solutions - these may include physical goods but also non-physical products such as services, policy instruments etc.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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Role-play simulations

Role-play simulations are a transdisciplinary method for engaging diverse stakeholders beyond traditional policy- and decision-making communities in an informed and inclusive public debate around the governance of complex socio-environmental challenges. 
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)

Participatory Scenario Planning

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.
Water Security (WAT) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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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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The Binary constrained Disaster model (BinD)

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.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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Visualise

Platform to assess the heterogeneity of disaster risk.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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Dynamic Model of Multi-Hazard Mitigation Co-Benefits (DYNAMMICs)

DYNAMMICs is a macroeconomic growth modeling framework that quantifies the many co-benefits of DRR investment for multiple hazards.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
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fairSTREAM toolkit of participatory approaches

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.  
Water Security (WAT) Equity and Justice (EQU) Strategic Initiatives (SI)
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Integrative Qualitative System Mapping (IQSM)

Integrative qualitative system mapping (IQSM) enables the systematic and transparent integration of diverse qualitative data. It is particularly useful as a tool supporting mixed methods research addressing nexus issues in sustainable development.  
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)

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