Conceptualizing and quantifying resilience & sustainability

Based on the experience of their particular studies each of which deals with the issue of sustainability in its own way, researchers of the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program make contribution to understanding the foundations of the notion of sustainability and develop system-analytic approaches to quantifying it. 

KIRAS Project: Resilience, Social Networks, and Austrian Security

Monitoring resilience – Development of a software-supported method for the network-based analysis and measurement of social cohesion and resilience of critical systems using Austria as an example The inevitability of surprises is a key feature in systems thinking, and the ability to persist through disturbances is a function of resilience. This project links resilience concepts from diverse scientific disciplines to develop a measure of resilience for Austria’s critical systems. More

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CONTACT DETAILS

Brian Fath

YSSP Scientific Coordinator Capacity Development and Academic Training Unit

Principal Research Scholar Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group - Advancing Systems Analysis Program

RESEARCH PARTNERS

Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
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