Options Magazine, Winter 2022: To help mitigate the water crisis in Central Asia, researchers devised a carbon-neutral and reliable regional strategy by building seasonal pumped storage plants in major rivers.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: A new study provides ways to combine efficient energy solutions with comprehensive waste management to make the Latin American dairy sector more sustainable.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Nutrient runoff from croplands is threatening the integrity of natural waters. Researchers devised sustainable management practices to protect against phosphorous overload in Lake Erie.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: A study on the sustainability of rice production pinpoints methods to improve rice management and thereby food security in Senegal.
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Transitioning to clean cooking services in South Africa can reduce existing health inequalities by improving the health of socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups.
IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld delivered a lecture at Comenius University in Bratislava on the occasion of the institute's 50th Anniversary.
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
IIASA congratulates Fu Bojie on receiving this year’s TWAS – Lenovo Science Award, in recognition of his seminal contribution to the understanding of interactions between human beings and the environment, and their implications for sustainability.
The CAMALIOT mobile app for crowdsourcing is used to collect data transmitted by the Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) for scientific applications such as weather forecasting and improving positional accuracy
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Equitably sharing the costs of mitigation is vital to ensure a just transition to a net-zero world. By calculating the impact of national policies on global emissions and exploring different effort-sharing schemes, the ENGAGE Project is at the forefront of developing feasible solutions.
A new study assesses the number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and introduces a novel methodology that will help to get a clearer view of pandemics in the future.
IIASA in collaboration with the NRF is bringing together key stakeholders of the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) in a series of events leading up to the World Science Forum (WSF).
This high-resolution electrification dataset for Sub-Saharan Africa is developed at the Energy Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in cooperation with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
As part of the 50th anniversary celebratory activities of IIASA, the Israel Committee for IIASA and other Israeli partners in collaboration with IIASA are convening a scientific symposium titled “Sustainability Pathways empowered by Systems Analysis."
Célian Colon is a research scholar in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program and a Peter E. De Jànosi Postdoctoral Fellowship holder at IIASA. He recently sat down with 2022 Science Communication Fellow, Jakob Angeli, to talk about resilience, his career path, and why throwing money at COVID-related research can be counterproductive.
Considerations of equity in directing global financial flows for regional climate mitigation investments are critically important. A new study helps inform the current negotiations at COP27 while keeping fairness at the forefront.