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27 January 2020

Fabian Wagner to lead capacity development activities at IIASA

Fabian Wagner has been appointed as the new Capacity Development and Academic Training (CDAT) Dean from 1 February 2020.

Autos, die versuchen, gegen Flut auf der Straße in Gdansk, Polen zu fahren

27 January 2020

Sea level rise to cause major economic impact in the absence of further climate action

Rising sea levels, a direct impact of the Earth’s warming climate, is intensifying coastal flooding. The findings of a new study show that the projected negative economy-wide effects of coastal flooding are already significant until 2050, but are then predicted to increase substantially towards the end of the century if no further climate action on mitigation and adaptation is taken.

24 January 2020

Increasing opportunities for sustainable behavior

To mitigate climate change and safeguard ecosystems, we need to make drastic changes in our consumption and transport behaviors. A new IIASA study shows how even minor changes to available infrastructure can trigger tipping points in the collective adoption of sustainable behaviors.

14 January 2020

Christiane Pohn-Hufnagl appointed IIASA Chief Operations Officer

Christiane Pohn-Hufnagl will join the executive team of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) as Chief Operations Officer (COO) on 1 July 2020.

13 January 2020

Exceptional young scientists awarded

IIASA has recognized four outstanding young scientists from the 2019 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) as YSSP awardees. Two candidates will receive funding to continue their research projects at IIASA and two have been given an Honorable Mention for exceptional effort.

10 January 2020

Effective institutions to support sustainable development

IIASA provided scientific input to the World Public Sector Report 2019, prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UNDESA). The report focuses on the Sustainable Development Goal 16 on public institutions.

05 March 2018

History of IIASAnet and IIASA Gateway, 1973-1991

IIASA alumnus and donor István Sebestyén discusses the first permanent computer network connections for science and research between East and West – during and after the Cold War era and 10 years before the Internet.

People sitting around a table with aspects of risk assistments superimposed

16 October 2017

45 years of risk research at IIASA

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer started as a research assistant at IIASA in 1972 and today is the Risk and Resilience (RISK) Program Director and Dean of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). She shares her story as a risk researcher at IIASA over the last 45 years.

20 July 2017

The East meets the West in an IIASA office

Bruce Beck's memories while he was in the Resources and Environment Project from 1977-1982 as printed in the Options Magazine, Summer 1992.

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