Tool
In the IIASA Strategic Initiative fairSTREAM, we create a toolkit of participatory methods that can be adapted to facilitate co-production of knowledge. Co-produced knowledge integrates diverse scientific and social discourses to create relevant and legitimate opportunities in the context of complex problems.
Research Project
In this project on the Distributional Implications of Climate-related Disasters (DIoD) we study the feedback effects on macroeconomic aggregates due to changes in income distributions once a disaster has hit. We do so by introducing agent heterogeneity into two state-of-the-art disaster models already used by many researchers as well as policymakers.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA)
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
Water Security (WAT)
Population and Just Societies (POPJUS)
Equity and Justice (EQU)
Dynamic Model of Multi-Hazard Mitigation Co-Benefits (DYNAMMICs)
The Binary constrained Disaster model (BinD)
Social and Policy Simulations
Article: News
25 July 2022
Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength. In a new study, researchers developed cut-off points that apply to the general population, while also considering the correlation of handgrip strength with gender, body height, and aging to be used in medical practice.
Article: Other
11 July 2022
The rapid development of digital tools and technologies in the world today enables us to analyze environmental and societal challenges on a deeper level and devise better fitting solutions. In 2021, researchers at IIASA made several pioneering applications of digital technologies to work on pressing global issues.
Event
Virtual event
The IIASA fairSTREAM project aims develop and demonstrate a co-production methodology for including fairness in developing sustainable policy options at the intersection of issues related to food, water, and biodiversity. Join us for this open-house project meeting to share progress on the project objectives since its launch in 2021 and take part in the discussion.
Event
Trieste, Italy - hybrid event
IIASA demographers Anne Goujon and Sergei Scherbov will be speaking at a hybrid workshop on "Quantitative Human Ecology" organized by International Centre for Theoretical Physics- ICTP in collaboration with Santa Fe Institute, Fondazione Internazionale Trieste and SISSA in Trieste, Italy.
Article: News
05 July 2022
COVID-19 showed that the ability to cope, recover and adapt to the pandemic and its social and economic consequences varies across population subgroups as well as institutional and geographical contexts. Researchers from IIASA and Wittgenstein Centre published the Fact Sheet that sheds light on the impact of the pandemic on people’s health, family dynamics, economies and migration.
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
Laxenburg, Austria
Former IIASA Director General and Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), Pavel Kabat, will visit the institute and meet with the IIASA Executive and research leaders from the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis and Population and Just Societies programs.