The Gambia faces significant food availability issues due to low agricultural productivity. IIASA researchers and colleagues used the FABLE Calculator to explore actions to reduce the food supply-demand gap by 2050. The results, published in Food Security, reveal that current cropland will not meet food demand by 2050.
Global water scarcity, a result of both quantity and quality change, challenges the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. An international team of researchers developed a novel modeling approach to identify cost-effective combinations of water management, promising a substantial reduction in future water scarcity.
IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber will deliver a keynote at the upcoming New European Bauhaus Jour Fixe Austria titled, Saving the world in style: The value proposition of the New European Bauhaus.
INSF will fund up to three highly qualified, early-career postdoctoral researchers to carry out interdisciplinary research in fields of mutual interest at both INSF and IIASA, which include but are not limited to environment, energy, ecology, natural resources, demography, and research methods in the field of systems analysis.
Pallav Purohit, senior research scholar in the Pollution Management Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, has been invited to participate in the 46th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer and associated meetings in his capacity as a member of the Refrigeration Technical Options Committee under the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel.
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.
IIASA researcher Roman Hoffmann is invited to deliver a keynote speech at the Migration Conference 2024, organized by Universidad Iberoamericana (IBERO) in Mexico City.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST) project aims to develop a modeling framework that integrates biophysical feedbacks and socioeconomic drivers affecting the environment.
