Scientific update
Activities for 2014
POP has a full program of work for 2014.
Productive collaboration with the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) will be continued under the umbrella of the Wittgenstein Centre.
Following is an-depth look at upcoming 2014 research in the POP program:
Accounting for socioeconomic heterogeneity in IIASA models
World Population Program (POP) scientists will contribute data on socio-demographic heterogeneities to a new cross-cutting program at IIASA that will include the assumptions developed in 2012 for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) scenarios. More
Population dynamics and sustainable development
The World Population Program (POP) will work on new European Research Council proposals to advance nonconventional, human resource-based approaches to understanding population dynamics and its implications for sustainable development. More
International seminar on demographic differential vulnerability to natural disasters
The International Seminar “Demographic Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation” will be organized in April as a concluding meeting of the ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Wolfgang Lutz. More
Completion of OUP population projections book
The IIASA World Population Program (POP) in close collaboration with other Wittgenstein Centre partners has finalized the book, World Population and Human Capital in the 21st Century, to be published by Oxford University Press. More
Collaborators
Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austria;
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria;
Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Austria.
CONTACT DETAILS
Interim Deputy Director General for Science Directorate - DDG for Science Department
Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Population and Just Societies Program
Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group - Population and Just Societies Program
Research program