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Petr Havlík appointed as Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program Director

22 March 2023
Petr Havlík has been appointed to lead the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

A new approach to sharing the burden of carbon dioxide removal

18 January 2023
Carbon dioxide removal is key to meeting the climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. A new study analyzes what fair and equitable burden-sharing means for nature-based carbon dioxide removal in developing countries.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

Dealing with higher fire frequencies in the alpine region

13 October 2022
Dealing with increasing fire frequencies in domestic mountain-dominated forest systems requires assessment and anticipation of fire risks at local scales, as well as a better understanding of its effects on the ecosystem and recreational activities. The Austria Fire Futures Project aims to address this critical situation.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE) Austria
Article: News

Forest management increases climate benefits provided by boreal forests

31 January 2022
The carbon stock in managed boreal forest landscapes is increasing, while it is relatively unchanged in less intensively utilized forests where carbon losses due to forest fires have instead been significant during 1990-2017, according to a new report by the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA).
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE) Canada Finland Norway Russian Federation Sweden United States of America
Article: News

Mapping foodscapes to future-proof global food production systems

05 November 2021
A project to build a map of the world’s diverse food production systems and their dependencies is helping form a better understanding of the crucial elements and necessary transformative actions that govern agricultural systems, now and in the future.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

Global climate change impacts on crops expected within 10 years

01 November 2021
Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat by 2030 if current trends continue, according to a new international study that included researchers from IIASA, NASA, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Maize crop yields are projected to decline by 24%, while wheat could potentially see growth of about 17%.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

Closing knowledge gaps for sustainable agriculture

13 July 2021
IIASA is part of a project funded under the Belmont Forum’s joint Collaborative Research Action on Pathways to Sustainability to develop and apply an indicator system for measuring sustainability in the agricultural sector that will close existing knowledge gaps and facilitate decision making for more sustainable agricultural production.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

Russian forests are crucial to global climate mitigation

24 June 2021
Russia is the world’s largest forest country. Being home to more than a fifth of forests globally, the country’s forests and forestry have enormous potential to contribute to making a global impact in terms of climate mitigation. A new study by IIASA researchers, Russian experts, and other international colleagues have produced new estimates of biomass contained in Russian forests, confirming a substantial increase over the last few decades.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE) Russian Federation
Article: News

Towards a new generation of vegetation models

11 May 2020
Plants and vegetation play a critical role in supporting life on Earth, but there is still a lot of uncertainty in our understanding of how exactly they affect the global carbon cycle and ecosystem services. A new IIASA-led study explored the most important organizing principles that control vegetation behavior and how they can be used to improve vegetation models.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

Exploring the impacts of climate change on hydropower production

11 May 2020
A new study by researchers from IIASA and China investigated the impacts of different levels of global warming on hydropower potential and found that this type of electricity generation benefits more from a 1.5°C than a 2°C climate scenario.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Article: News

Returning land to nature with high-yield farming

16 April 2020
The expansion of farmlands to meet the growing food demand of the world’s ever expanding population places a heavy burden on natural ecosystems. A new IIASA study however shows that about half the land currently needed to grow food crops could be spared if attainable crop yields were achieved globally and crops were grown where they are most productive.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)

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