IIASA demographer Sergei Scherbov is invited to talk about new ways of measuring aging that more accurately represent the real world at the webinar organized by Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University.
World Population and Just Societies Program Director Raya Muttarak is invited to talk about relationship between global climate change and migration at the Seminar Series at the Centre for Demographic Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The Europa Biodiversity Observation Network - EuropaBON is hosting its first stakeholder workshop aiming to develop a common roadmap for biodiversity monitoring in the EU.
The IIASA-ISC Rethinking Energy Solutions Report identifies the negative and positive lessons learnt from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in relation to energy consumption and demand, and recommends several immediate actions.
IIASA scientists are contributing to the IPCC Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Author teams will be gathering virtually to work on the final draft taking into account the tens of thousands of comments which were submitted during the second round of reviews from external experts.
The IIASA-ISC Resilient Food Systems report looks at the vulnerabilities in the food system and recommends changes to move forward through COVID-19 recovery plans that prioritize society’s least protected.
Federation of Austrian Industries, Vienna, Austria
The 6th Viennese Talks on Resilience and Networks is co-organized by IIASA and FASresearch. In an effort to support a convergence of ideas between systems ecology, complexity, ecomimcry, sustainability, networks, resilience and "building back better", authors of the recently published book “A New Ecology: Systems Perspective” are meeting in this workshop to provide insight into ecological principles.
IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that will help policymakers and other stakeholders understand trends in oil palm expansion to inform landscape-level planning.
By applying multidimensional demographic models that incorporate differential fertility, mortality, migration, and educational attainment, IIASA's Population and Just Societies Program has developed the Demographic Data Sheets (DDS), which provide population projections by age, sex, and education for Europe, Asia, and the world. The DDS also present indicators on human capital and innovative measures of aging developed at IIASA, offering insights into demographic change across world regions and individual countries. These data products build on IIASA’s long-standing expertise in population forecasting and multidimensional demographic modeling.
The IIASA-ISC Consultative Science platform has engaged transdisciplinary global thought leaders to produce four reports that focus on a more sustainable pathway to a post COVID-19 world. This blog post looks at the report on Strengthening Science Systems.
In the framework of the Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration, a research partnership between IIASA's World Population Program and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, IIASA provides science-based knowledge on migration and demography to support EU policy.
IIASA researchers have developed multi-dimensional/multi-state models to study population dynamics at the global, regional, national and sub-national level.
The linkage algorithms solve the problem of linking models, e.g. sectorial and/or regional, into an inter-sectorial inter-regional integrated model. Linkage enables to avoid “hard linking” of models in a single code, which saves the programming time and enables parallel distributed computations of individual models instead of a large scale integrated model. Models linkage preserves the structure of the original models taking into account critically important details, which are usually missing in aggregate models.
Stochastic Quasi-Gradient (SQG) methods have been developed for solving general optimization problems without exact calculation of objective function and constraints (let alone of their derivatives). SQG methods enable a sequential revision of approximate solutions towards the optimal using newly acquired information on the system, obtained via either direct on-line observations or(and) simulations.
Elena Rovenskaya speaks at the high-level Government After Shock Global Forum to help inform a global dialogue on systemic change needed beyond COVID-19 crisis.
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and IIASA are presenting the Fourth OECD-IIASA Systems Thinking, Anticipation, and Resilience Task Force meeting on Systemic Recovery.