Article: News
04 July 2024
IIASA researchers are part of the ALFAwetlands project, which aims to map wetlands in the European Union and assess restoration measures to provide maximum benefits for climate and biodiversity. The project partners recently gathered for a Midterm Conference to review implementation progress, present and exchange current results, and discuss further plans.
Article: News
01 July 2024
A new publication authored by scientists from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and IIASA with a large European consortium provides vital insights into the current status of biodiversity monitoring in Europe, identifying policy needs, challenges, and future pathways.
Model
Losses from natural and man-made catastrophes are rapidly increasing. The main reason for this is the clustering of people and capital in hazard-prone areas, interdepedencis between economic activities, systemic risks, the creation of new hazard-prone areas. Warming climate is projected to be a driver affecting the frequency of extreme events, such as wildfires and flash floods, as well as the intensity of precipitation, wind speed, etc. The increasing vulnerability of the society calls for new integrated approaches to economic developments and risk management with an explicit emphasis on catastrophes and systemic risks. The integrated spatilly-explicit catastrophe risk modeling and management model (ISCRiMM) is beeing developed at CAT (Cooperation and Transformative Governance) group of the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) program at IIASA for spatial and temporal analysis and management of various natural disaster risks and possible chain risks in interdependet systems. This is a GIS-based model which explicitly accounts for the interplay between national and local ex-ante measures, e.g., investment in prevention/mitigation measures (on the part of the public authorities, the citizens and the insurance industry) and ex-post policies for sharing the financial costs after the disaster.
Article: Blog Post
28 June 2024
Every year, the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) hosts around 50 young scientists for three months over the course of the summer to undertake a scientific project within the scope of their PhD on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. In this Q&A, Carolien Kroeze, current Rector Magnificus of Wageningen University and 1991 YSSP participant, recounts her IIASA experience.
Article: News
28 June 2024
A new IIASA study explores waste management systems and reveals that achieving zero waste leakage by 2030 is unlikely, potentially jeopardizing related Sustainable Development Goals. The authors emphasize the need for global cooperation, particularly across four regions, to responsibly manage waste disposal.
Article: Other
27 June 2024
Researchers from the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, Energy, Climate and Environment Program, and from the Population and Just Societies Program share their expertise to carry out the IIASA Tools for Raising and UnderStanding Trust in systems science through citizen engagement (TRUST) Strategic Initiative.
Article: Other
27 June 2024
The IIASA Just Transitions to Net‑Zero Carbon Emissions for All (JustTrans4All) project contributes to novel analyses of transition pathways that are cognizant of diverse justice considerations. The project aims to help shape policies that make people’s lives better without harming the planet, following the UN 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement.
Article: Other
27 June 2024
In the fairSTREAM project, IIASA researchers from the Equity and Justice, Water Security, and Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation research groups aim to address issues of fairness. This is crucial for managing risks in nexus challenges where conflicting views on procedural and outcome fairness often remain unresolved and jeopardize finding solutions.
Article: Other
27 June 2024
As wildfires become more frequent and severe due to climate change, it’s important to address the unequal distribution of wildfire risk in communities. A 2023 IIASA study calls for more integrated and inclusive wildfire risk management approaches and proposes a novel framework mapping different justice aspects.