Research Project
Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities (INFRANORTH)
The "new Arctic" is drawing global interest due to geopolitics, militarization, resource exploration, tourism, and rising environmental alarms amidst swift climate shifts. As transport infrastructures evolve or expand, a pressing concern emerges: Will these frameworks bolster enduring human settlement and sustainable Arctic living, or will they favor transient dwellers like tourists and shift workers? Could transport systems be the key to preserving northern communities?
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nikita Strelkovskii, Research Scholar at the Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) and Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Research Groups at the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program, presents the outcomes of the recent IIASA research on systems approaches to modeling national well-being systems at the “Well-Being 2022: Knowledge for informed decisions” conference. His talk titled “A systems view on national well-being and implications of COVID-19 on it” discusses the multi-faceted impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies on various aspects of national well-being – from employment to social support.
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Oxford, UK Virtual event
Nadejda Komendantova who leads the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) Research Group, has been invited to be the presenter of the next seminar of the Oxford Energy series. Her talk titled “Participatory Governance and Social Factors in the Energy Transition” addresses the question what is the current potential for polycentric governance and the opportunities for the co-production of energy policy given the general public’s existing levels of awareness and willingness to participate.
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Virtual
IIASA Deputy Director General for Science Leena Srivastava, IIASA Program Director for Advancing Systems Analysis Elena Rovenskaya, and IIASA Emeritus Research Scholar Luis Gomez Echeverri are hosting the advisory board meeting for the Transformations within Reach - Phase 2 initiatives.
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Vienna, Austria and online
IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2022 conference presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more.
Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Event
Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Dr. Hossein Hossani from the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) Research Group is the founder of YolaCare initiative in Nigeria, whose application, created under Monaco Impact, promises to bring solutions to child healthcare. The YolaCare application will be launched on Thursday, March 3 in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Research Project
The joint project “Integrated modeling for robust management of food-energy-water-land use nexus security and sustainable development” between National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine (NASU), and IIASA for the period from 2022 to 2026 is the continuation and the new stage of the joint NASU-IIASA project “Integrated robust management of food-energy-water-land-social nexus for sustainable development” completed in the period from 2017 to 2021 (IIASA Policy brief, 2017; Zagorodny et al., 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020). In the new research period, we address urgent problems of integrated modeling and policy analysis through models’ linkage and distributed optimization of disintegrated distributed food-water-energy-environmental models, precautionary and adaptive dealing with systemic risks and their implications for Food-Energy-Water-Environmental-Social (FEWES) systems security NEXUS management in Ukraine and globally.
Research Project
Decades of insufficient action (despite multiple scientific warnings) have heightened risks of irreversible tipping points in the Earth systems. Urgent and critical actions are needed to avert societal collapse. Phase-2 of the Transformations within Reach (TwR) is intended to provide an action-oriented synthesis for catalyzing societal transformations toward sustainability.
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Virtual event at the Uppsala University
Dr. Nadejda Komendantova from Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group is invited to speak at the workshop “Vulnerability of the electrical grid and interdependent critical infrastructures to extraordinary disruptive events” organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Uppsala University.
Her talk titled “Multi-risk governance and resilience of electricity transmission grids” includes the discussion of the need of a multi-risk governance framework which goes across such phases as risk mitigation and observation, risk assessment and management as well as risk communication.
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Virtual event
The theme of the 55th ICA Conference is: The New Normal: "A radical leap to digital, one giant step for digital society.” Nadejda Komendantova who leads the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group, has been invited to be a speaker in a panel discussion on the “Importance of a strong and secure digital infrastructure”.
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Virtual event
The title of the VII MEET International Conference is: "Economic, social and civilization challenges in the globalizing world.” Nadejda Komendantova who leads the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group, is a member of the Conference Scientific Committee and will give two talks at the event.
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Anaheim, USA / Virtual
Nadejda Komendantova who leads the IIASA Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) Research Group, has been invited to speak at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. Her talk titled “A Multi-Criteria Decision Approach to Pandemics Responses” is centered around results and insights from a recent research project which is among the three finalists for the Decision Analysis Practice Award.
Research Project
Well-being, happiness, quality of life or life satisfaction are the ultimate goals of any human, regardless of status, profession, wealth, religion, or nationality. Governments begin to focus their attention directly on the multidimensional national well-being, including and going beyond economic and material aspects. They look for new under-utilized resources that would raise the national well-being even despite weak economic growth. To discover effective and efficient solutions, one needs to maximize synergies and reduce losses from trade-offs. Systems analysis offers tools to do so.
Research Project
Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) are invaluable for understanding the biosphere. However, as currently implemented by the international research community, these models suffer from a challenging accumulation of uncertainty. This project aims to address this problem by developing the foundations of a new generation of models centered on a “missing law” – adaptation and optimization principles rooted in natural selection.