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Nadejda Komendantova from the Cooperation and Transformative Governance group is invited to provide an opening keynote presentation at the VIII International Workshop on Critical Infrastructures in the Digital World. The aim of the workshop is to discuss theoretical and methodological issues of development and integration of intelligent, agent-based and cloud computing for contingency management in critical infrastructures as well as to talk about Situational Awareness, Semiotics, Visual Analytics, Semantic Modeling and Cognitive Graphics and their applications in critical infrastructures.

The IIASA-ISC Enhancing Governance for Sustainability Report identifies the lessons learnt from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in relation to upgrading risk governance.

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld spoke at the Using Science for/in Diplomacy for Addressing Global Challenges (S4D4C) project final networking meeting “Addressing Global Challenges Together: the Role of Science Diplomacy”.

A model that traces land and water use embodied in production, trade and consumption of agricultural commodities.

A global soil database, framed within a Geographic Information System, containing up-to-date information on world soil resources

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a blueprint to achieve a better life for all and to ensure that no one is left behind. The partly overlapping and contradictory objectives of the SDGs can however make it difficult to assess overall progress. A group of researchers have proposed a new, tailor-made metric that measures development based on long-term human wellbeing.

IIASA researcher Nadejda Komendantova will give a keynote speech at the International Conference of the Institute of National Planning on Digital Economy and Sustainable Development. She will present her perspective on the role that systems analysis can play in supporting the digital transformation.

Water quality modeling for water availability/scarcity assessment, water-energy-land-environment nexus analysis and identification of cost-effective solutions under long-term changes.

A general equilibrium model to assess China’s agricultural prospects and challenges up to 2030, covering national, regional and county level.

An open source model to examine how future water demand will evolve in response to socioeconomic change and how water availability will change in response to climate.

New tool to inform the design of cost-effective and sustainable water policy decisions

A tool for detailed assessment of available resources to support policymakers developing national, regional, and global strategies for the sustainable production of food

Comprehensive downloadable data and analysis on the Russian forestry sector

A model assessing how land management affects the environment

Dmitry Erokhin is invited to speak on the determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries with the special focus on the institutional environment of the host countries at the International Workshop “China's Belt and Road Initiative: curse or blessing for democracy in Eurasia?”. 

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld spoke at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) workshop: “Science Diplomacy to Promote and Strengthen Basic Research and International Cooperation”.

The IIASA/ESM based BGC-MAN model was calibrated and validated with TrEco data for the dominant ecosystems and land use forms of the Congo basin, including virgin forests, managed forests, forest fallows after shifting cultivation and savannahs.

Assessing management impacts on the BioGeoChemistry of ecosystems

World Population and Just Societies Program Director Raya Muttarak will talk on 9 April at the webinar on Population, Food and the Environment co-organized by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and Population Association of America (PAA).

The INQUIMUS workshop has been postponed to Winter 2021. IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program together with the Advanced Systems Analysis Program will host the INQUIMUS workshop series entitled Risk management and Loss & Damage: What are suitable approaches for assessing climate-related (residual) risks?". The workshop will focus on the pressing issue of climate-related risks that may go beyond social and physical limits for adaptation.