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Article: News

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

Exceptional young scientists awarded

03 February 2023
IIASA is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) awards. The awards provide financial support for three exceptional young scientists to return to IIASA for an additional three months of research.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Strategic Initiatives (SI)
Article: News

SOS Water Project featured in Die Presse

31 January 2023
IIASA's Water Security Group Leader Dr Taher Kahil interviewed for Die Press
Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

Towards a safe operating space for water resources in a changing climate and society

03 October 2022
The SOS-Water Project, funded under the Horizon Europe scheme and coordinated by IIASA, will create a holistic and participatory assessment framework of a Safe Operating Space (SOS) for the entire water resources system to inform global and regional water management policies and pathways.  
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

An integrated modeling framework to assess surface and groundwater resources

22 September 2022
Against the backdrop of climate change and rising water demand, tools for adequately modeling water availability are much needed. In a new study, researchers applied a large-scale model linking surface water to groundwater, which can be used for estimating water resources at a high spatial resolution.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Austria India
Article: News

IIASA recognizes outstanding research contributions

10 May 2022
IIASA recently instituted a new system of awards to recognize outstanding contributions towards meeting the strategic priorities and values of the institute. We are proud to announce that five IIASA research activities have been recognized in the inaugural 2022 award cycle.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Pursuing carbon neutrality and water security in China

14 February 2022
China has promised to become carbon neutral before 2060 and has coupled this ambitious target with stringent limitations on industrial water use by 2030. An international team of IIASA researchers and Chinese colleagues explored the effects of simultaneously pursuing these goals.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) China
Article: News

Two IIASA stalwarts honored with lifetime achievement awards

16 November 2021
Internationally renowned IIASA researchers Guenther Fischer and Nebojsa Nakicenovic were the first to be honored with the newly established IIASA Lifetime Achievement Award at Monday night’s public lecture co-organized by IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Article: News

Building fairness into decision making

01 September 2021
The fairSTREAM project just launched under the auspices of the IIASA Strategic Initiatives Program, aims to develop and demonstrate a co-production methodology for including equity and justice (fairness) alongside efficiency in developing sustainable policy options across the food-water-biodiversity nexus.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU) Strategic Initiatives (SI)
Article: News

Supporting sustainable development in the agricultural sector

17 June 2021
IIASA, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI) are proud to announce the launch of version 4 of the Global Agro-Ecological Zones platform (GAEZ v4) – a research tool that supports sustainable development in the agricultural sector – on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

Finding pathways for sustainable development in Africa

16 June 2021
A new project funded under the Belmont Forum’s joint Collaborative Research Action on Pathways to Sustainability will develop novel tools and capacities to understand and manage interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and support sustainable development pathways for African countries, tailored to local capacities and priorities.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Central African Republic South Africa
Article: News

Accessing the latest climate impact science just got easier

15 June 2021
Do you have a clear picture of what science says about past and future impacts of climate change in your country? Do you know how this knowledge has been generated and how reliable it is? The newly released open climate impacts encyclopedia ISIpedia was designed to provide state-of-the-art climate impact information by translating the latest climate impact science into understandable and informative texts.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

The value of cooperation for sustainable development in transboundary river basins

22 March 2021
Can cooperation across sectors and countries help to achieve sustainable development? How do stakeholders in the Indus and Zambezi basins envision the future and how can they make that future a reality? IIASA researchers looked into these questions as part of a large-scale initiative with international partners.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Afghanistan Angola Botswana China India Malawi Namibia Pakistan Tanzania Zimbabwe
Article: News

Strengthening water resources planning in East Africa

19 March 2021
IIASA researchers worked with local stakeholders from the East African Community to explore and co-develop regional water scenarios that can enhance understanding of the up- and downstream water sector interactions in the extended Lake Victoria Basin to facilitate rational water resource planning.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

Sustainable water management key to scaling up bioenergy production

08 March 2021
To avoid a substantial increase in water scarcity, biomass plantations for energy production need sustainable water management, a new study shows.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

IIASA joins the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP)

18 February 2021
We are proud to announce that IIASA has joined GRIPP, a global partnership for sustainable groundwater management led by the International Water Management Institute to strengthen, expand, and connect current groundwater research and initiatives.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)
Article: News

Making comprehensive water resources modeling more accessible

21 July 2020
A new large-scale, open source hydrological and water resources model developed at IIASA will support and enable different stakeholder groups and scientific communities to engage with a hydrological model and support their investigations.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT)

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