Article: News
14 November 2022
In a new study just published in the journal Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigated the Earth system impacts of escaping poverty and achieving a dignified life for all. The research was inspired by discussions on potential trade-offs between achieving social and environmental goals.
Article: News
11 November 2022
On Thursday, 10 November 2022, Interim IIASA Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts in Demography from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of demography.
Event
Vienna-Palais Niederösterreich
IIASA researchers will present their work to the curious audience attending “The Lower Austria Research Festival 2022 - Forschungsfest Niederösterreich”, organized by the Section of Science and Research of the Province of Lower Austria.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR)
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Equity and Justice (EQU)
Agent-based models to inform economic policies on migration (ABM2Policy)
Resource nexus for transformation to circular, resilient, and liveable cities in the context of climate change (RECREATE)
Event
Vienna School of International Studies
IIASA Interim Deputy General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz is invited to be the keynote speaker at the upcoming event co-hosted by Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy and Vienna School of Internal Studies to speak about the geopolitical consequences on global demographic development.
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Milan, Italy and online
Roman Hoffmann is invited to present his research on "Climate Change, Aridity and Internal Migration: Evidence from Census Microdata for 72 Countries" at the Seminar Series FALL 2022 of DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy in Università Bocconi.
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Florence, Italy-hybrid event
Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the hybrid conference "Fire Ecology Across Boundaries conference: Connecting Science and Management" organized by The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) and Pau Costa Foundation (PCF), partnering with Regione Toscana and University of Florence.
Research Project
The HuT is an Innovation Action project funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. The project addresses the distributive justice implications of extreme climate event impacts and aims at developing innovative and procedurally just Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) solutions for dealing with extreme climate events.
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Virtual event
The WIC Colloquium series is organized by the Vienna Institute of Demography as part of its involvement in the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. This installment of the series will focus on the socio-demographic characteristics and return intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Vienna.
Research Project
The NATURANCE project is funded by the Coordination and Support Actions of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. The main objective of the NATURANCE project is to examine technical, financial and operational feasibility and performance of solutions that are built upon and combine disaster risk financing & investments with Nature-based Solutions (NbS).