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News
30 August 2023
The IIASA Summer Experience: A Blend of Learning and Experience in a nurturing atmosphere
Every summer, IIASA turns into a buzzing hub of knowledge seekers, and this year is no different! The AFE FLAM team welcomed three interns and three YSSP fellows this summer and we took a moment to chat with Rasheed, Adrian, Laura, and Lawrence about their experiences and goals.
26 June 2023
Are we building back better yet?
With the pandemic thankfully receding in the rear-view mirror while the climate crisis looms ever larger in front of us, it’s worth remembering the calls from 2020 to “build back better”. A recent study investigated how we are progressing on achieving this ambitious goal.
25 January 2023
Driving inclusive and green urban transitions
A new Horizon Europe project led by IIASA called Urban ReLeaf leverages citizen science for public sector innovation.
Events
University Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Oxford Networks for the Environment annual lecture featuring John Schellnhuber
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Tipping Points: From Climate Crisis to Positive Transformation
Focus
27 June 2024
RESIST
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.
27 June 2024
Assessing the remaining carbon budget
IIASA research shows that the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C is significantly less than previously anticipated and could be depleted within the next six years.
Projects
Multi-hazard and risk informed system for Enhanced local and regional Disaster risk management (MEDiate)
Developing circular pathways for a EU low-carbon transition (CircEUlar)
Wind In My Backyard (WIMBY)
Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co‐developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters (PARATUS)
Publications
Ton, M.J., de Moel, H., de Bruijn, J. , Botzen, W.J.W., Karabiyik, H., Friedrich, M., & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2024). The impact of natural hazards on migration in the United States and the effect of spatial dependence. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 1-19. 10.1080/09640568.2024.2359447. Winiwarter, W. , Lindl, F., Kaltenegger, K. , Warnecke, L. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Purohit, P. , & Klimont, Z. (2024). Anthropogenic emissions of CH4, N2O, F-gases and BC from GAINS, for EU-countries plus CH, NO, UK developed under the EYE-CLIMA project. 10.5281/zenodo.11032177. Marois, G. , Gietel-Basten, S., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Zellmann, J.G., Reiter, C. , & Lutz, W. (2024). Measuring Human Capital with Productivity-Weighted Labor Force: Methodology and Projections for China, India, the United States, and the European Union. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-005 Pojman, E., Mwedzi, D.E., Olaya Bucaro, O. , Zhang, S., Chong, M., Alexander, M., & Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2023). Leaving for life: using online crowd-sourced genealogies to estimate the migrant mortality advantage for the United Kingdom and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2023-050. Fraisl, D. (2023). Citizen science, local knowledge, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [Teaching Resource] Lee, S., Freer, M., Wood, R., Edelenbosch, O., Sharmina, M., Doelman, J., van Vuuren, D., & Wilson, C. (2023). From future diets to dishes: communicating dietary shift associated with a 1.5°C scenario for Brazil, China, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7 e1266708. 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1266708.