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09 April 2024
Ukraine’s forest sector is suffering unprecedented challenges. War has impacted both forests and forestry – devastating forest areas, infrastructure and industry, as well as causing ‘brain drain’ and capacity loss due to the disruption of research institutions and the displacement of students and scientists. These impacts are compounded by factors including climate change, unstable forest health dynamics, landscape fires, and an overall decrease in forest productivity.
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23 June 2023
Options Magazine, Summer 2023: By opening up access to science, IIASA is sparking new insights into our planet’s health.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Water Security (WAT)
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Strategic Initiatives (SI)
Community Water Model (CWatM)
Earth Observation & Citizen Science (Geo-Wiki)
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29 November 2022
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Juliana Arbelaez Gaviria joined IIASA in 2020 to work on the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM) for the Czech Republic. She is currently a researcher in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program.
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11 July 2022
The rapid development of digital tools and technologies in the world today enables us to analyze environmental and societal challenges on a deeper level and devise better fitting solutions. In 2021, researchers at IIASA made several pioneering applications of digital technologies to work on pressing global issues.
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29 November 2021
Options Winter 2021: While urbanization is a common cause of biodiversity decline, the Republic of Korea has managed to maintain its biodiversity during its rapid economic development. IIASA researcher Florian Kraxner and colleagues analyzed the persistence of plants in the country and constructed future scenarios to better prepare for the pressures of climate change.