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.
Dataset
This application serves as an expansion of the Bayesian Reconstruction of Populations and Vital Rates by Educational Attainment (BayesEdu) project. Its objective is to integrate existing demographic data to generate accurate estimates of population sizes and vital rates categorized by educational attainment, while also considering associated uncertainties.
Event
Online
Join us for this webinar series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. In this installment, experts will delve into the critical tipping points in soil erosion and their implications, particularly in the regions of the Global South where the impacts are currently most pronounced.
Event
IIASA-Laxenburg
In the face of mounting societal challenges and financial uncertainties, the in-person NATURANCE Festival is dedicated to unravelling the financial, insurance, and investment opportunities that nature-based solutions (NbS) offer. Join us as we explore the untapped potential of the natural world to provide sustainable solutions to our most pressing problems.
Event
Vienna University of Technology
IIASA researchers participate in the 24th Austrian Climate Day (Klimatag) devoted to the topic of "City and Country in Flux" and organized by Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) and the Vienna University of Technology (TU).
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Equity and Justice (EQU)
Assessing the distributional effects of climate change impacts and adaptation in Austria, for just, targeted and efficient adaptation (DISCC-AT)
Identifying tools and methods to co-create a climate risk service for managing drought risk in Austria (CRiSDA)
Just Transitions to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions for All (JustTrans4ALL)
Article: News
11 March 2024
IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program, in collaboration with The College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, is pleased to announce its upcoming annual intensive training course titled "Demographic Analysis with Applications to Aging and Health".
Article: News
07 March 2024
New projections of population and human capital provide insights into what our future could look like all the way until the year 2100 under different developmental scenarios. The findings are presented in datasets compiled by IIASA scientists in partnership with the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital.
Article: News
27 February 2024
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosted a delegation from the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS). The visit aimed at fostering collaboration and in-depth discussions on key economic models and research areas.
Research Project
Horizon Europe: Link4Skills is a global project addressing skill shortages through four processes: upskilling established populations, raising wages, automation, and migration. It spans Europe, Africa, Asia, and America, analyzing skill shortages and flows. The project includes the development of an AI-Assisted Skill Navigator for stakeholders in employment and vocational training organizations across origins and destinations
Event
Vienna, Austria and online
IIASA researchers will participate in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2024 conference presenting research on climate change, risk and resilience, energy, citizen science, and more.
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Water Security (WAT)
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
Economic Frontiers (EF)
Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC)
Economics of disruptive change (EDC)
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE)
Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
Integrated Climate Impacts (ICI)
Pollution Management (PM)
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)
Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Equity and Justice (EQU)
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Strategic Initiatives (SI)
Navigating European forests and forest bioeconomy sustainably to EU climate neutrality (ForestNavigator)