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Article: News

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected immigration?

24 January 2023
New research finds a high variation between how pandemic mitigation measures affected immigration to different destination countries, from a slight increase to huge reductions.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Australia Austria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland United States of America
Article: News

How COVID-19 school closures will affect inequalities in adult skills

24 November 2022
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Demography matters: the human life from birth to death

28 September 2022
IIASA researchers participate in a seminar titled "Demography matters: the human life from birth to death", organized by Vienna Institute of Demography and Wittgenstein Centre.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

POPNET Newsletter is out!

08 July 2022
A new issue of the POPNET Newsletter of the Wittgenstein Centre is now available.
Economic Frontiers (EF) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Fact Sheet Migration

13 June 2022
Migration is a highly complex social phenomenon and migration decisions depend on a variety of social, political and economic factors. Researchers from IIASA and Wittgenstein Centre published the Fact Sheet Migration, providing information about the challenges, that might be confronted for a successful adaptation.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

Fact Sheet Economic Demography

25 May 2022
Population structure and dynamics are directly interlinked with economic development. The new Fact Sheet Economic Demography developed by researchers from IIASA and the Wittgenstein Centre puts the economic consequences of demographic changes into perspective, showing a realistic picture of challenges and opportunities in the future.
Economic Frontiers (EF) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Fact Sheet Climate Change and Demography

12 May 2022
The reciprocal relationships between human populations and the environment becomes increasingly important in the light of climate change. Researchers from IIASA and Wittgenstein Centre published the Fact Sheet Climate Change and Demography, providing information for policy makers and scientists about some key areas where demography can contribute to climate research.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Article: News

Experience of climate extremes increase Green voting in Europe

07 February 2022
What role do experiences with climate change and extreme events play in shaping environmental attitudes and to what extent can they explain the recent rise in environmental concerns and willingness to vote for Green parties across Europe? IIASA researchers set out to investigate these and related issues in a new study just published in Nature Climate Change.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Exploring the link between access to electricity and fertility

13 December 2021
Access to electricity and modern cooking fuels, especially for women in the Global South, leads to time savings in the home, improved health, and better access to information, which in turn increase the wellbeing of women and allow them to make informed reproductive choices, according to a new study just published in Nature Sustainability.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

Are we on track to end world hunger?

27 August 2021
IIASA researchers have contributed to a study that provides a new model to monitor and predict food insecurity in the coming decade. It finds that while overall global levels of food insecurity are set to decrease an increase is implied for lower income countries.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

Empowering women could help address climate change

15 December 2020
Current and future damages of climate change depend greatly on the ability of affected populations to adapt to changing conditions. According to an international group of researchers, building capacity to adapt to such changes will require eradicating inequalities of many sorts, including gender.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

Assessing the impacts of global climate change on population trends

09 December 2020
The European Research Council (ERC) will fund groundbreaking research led by IIASA World Population Program Deputy Director Raya Muttarak, which will comprehensively address the impacts of climate change on population dynamics.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

Climate change triggers migration

14 September 2020
Environmental hazards affect populations worldwide and can drive migration under specific conditions, especially in middle-income and agricultural countries. According to a new study, changes in temperature levels, increased rainfall variability, and rapid-onset disasters such as tropical storms play an important role in this regard.
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)

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