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Improving governance is key for adaptive capacity
Governance in climate vulnerable countries will take decades to improve, substantially impeding the ability of nations to adapt to climate change and affecting billions of people globally, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability. More
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Demographic analysis with applications to aging and health
World Population Deputy Program Director Sergei Scherbov is leading a workshop for junior scientists and early-to mid-ca... More
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Steiber N (2019). Intergenerational educational mobility and health satisfaction across the life course: Does the long arm of childhood conditions only become visible later in life? Social Science and Medicine 242: e112603. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112603.
Research projects
Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies
This project aims to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories and their determinants, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions. More
Demography and Education in Niger: A Prospective Analysis
This project aims to project the population of Niger by age, gender, education, ethnicity, and region according to different scenarios. More
Forecasting Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
This project is testing the basic hypothesis that societies can develop the most effective long-term defense against the dangers of climate change by strengthening human capacity - primarily through education. More
Human Capital and Economic Performance
By including educational attainment as demographic dimension in addition to age and sex, the message derived from the Demographic Dividend Model changes for describing the effect of demographic change on economic growth. More
IIASA-JRC Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration
The Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration is a research partnership between IIASA's World Population Program and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre that provides science-based knowledge on migration and demography to support EU policy. More
Population Dynamics and Global Human Capital
The Population and Human Capital project aims to more fully understand the dynamics of an improving educational composition of the population and to demonstrate the long-term implications of near-term investments in education. More
Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective
The Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective (Re-Aging) project will develop new approaches to the study of age and aging that are appropriate for 21st century conditions. More
The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing
This project aims to develop new indicators for long-term human wellbeing that include feedbacks from environmental and other changes. It is funded through an ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Wolfgang Lutz. More
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