Event
Beijing, China
IIASA and Beijing Normal University are co-organizing a symposium titled, The International Symposium on Polycrises and Systemic risks: The need for an integrative approach for assessment and governance. The event will take place in Beijing, China from 9 to 10 May 2024. IIASA Interim Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, and IIASA Research Group Leader, Reinhard Mechler, will participate in the event to bring together different communities of risk and hazard research, explore their commonalities, and discuss improved policy options for dealing more effectively with systemic risks in the future.
Event
Grand Gongda Jianguo Hotel (No.100 Pingleyuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China)
As part of the COMMITTED project, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT) and Tsinghua University (TU) will host a knowledge-sharing and capacity-building workshop aimed at addressing critical issues related to climate change mitigation in China and beyond.
Article: News
29 November 2023
Digitalization has ushered in new markets worldwide and in BRICS countries. However, the concentration of market power and digital resources by only a handful of digital platform ecosystems (DPEs) has also triggered new governance challenges, particularly, for BRICS countries. As part of the dissemination process of the ECOANTITRUST initiative, Elena Rovenskaya delivered a presentation on the adoption of ecological insights and tools to improve understanding of the complex nature of digital platforms, their ecosystems, and their interactions with the wider economy.
Article: Other
11 November 2023
Options Magazine, Winter 2023: As cities draw in more and more people, the challenges and opportunities posed by urbanization are ever-increasing. How can we make sure that the cities of tomorrow will serve both people and the planet?
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Austria
China
Event
Shanghai University, China
Researchers from the Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program are participating in the Third Asian Population Forum. This forum centered around Population Projections for Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Climate Change Analysis will take place in Shanghai from October 31 to November 1, 2023. Preceding the forum, from October 25 to 30, 2023, these experts will contribute their expertise as instructors for the training workshop on Multidimensional and Multiscale Demographic Modeling.
Event
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS & Online
In the framework of the IIASA 50th Anniversary, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and IIASA are co-hosting a hybrid event to celebrate 20 years of China’s participation in IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) on 6-7 September 2023 (Beijing, China and online).
Article: Blog Post
16 March 2023
Western accounts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China often paint a dystopian picture of an Orwellian surveillance state. But what really makes industry practitioners in the world's second-largest digital economy tick? 2022 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participant Junhua Zhu, wants to lift the veil, taking a deep dive into the Chinese AI ecosystem.
Article: Blog Post
04 July 2022
Qingxu Huang shares insights from a recent article published in Nature Scientific Data on updating global urbanization projections under future scenarios of socioeconomic and climate change. The study was conducted in collaboration with Raya Muttarak from the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.
Event
New Delhi
IIASA 50th anniversary celebrations will include a conference hosted by the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) and IIASA. The event will build on the expertise and interlinkages between the system analysts’ communities in Asia to discuss and analyze transformative approaches to achieving sustainability across multiple stakeholder, sectors and regions.