by nina | May 14, 2018 | Global, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, The World in 2050, Transitions to New Technologies
The World in 2050 (TWI2050) is a global multi-year, multi-partner research initiative launched by IIASA with international partners that involves almost all research programs at the institute. The main focus of the initiative is on deriving viable pathways for...
by nina | May 14, 2018 | Asia, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, Transitions to New Technologies
Novel methodological concepts to simulate pervasive policy-driven transformations were for the first time tested in a real-world case study application to analyze policy targets associated with the city of Shanghai’s goal of having more electric vehicles on its roads...
by nina | May 14, 2018 | Asia, Energy, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes
The IIASA Energy Program (ENE) has developed a new generation of its modeling platform MESSAGEix, which is now available under an open source license. The model is used for research applications, as well as for capacity building in IIASA member countries and teaching...
by nina | Apr 23, 2018 | Global, ISWEL, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes
Understanding the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development is increasingly required to inform policies to manage these risks in pursuit of the sustainable development agenda. To this end, IIASA researchers working on the Integrated...
by nina | Apr 18, 2018 | Global, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics
Systemic risk describes the likelihood of cascading failures in networks. Such risks arise in a broad range of different systems, such as power grids, ecosystems, supply chains, financial networks, disease dynamics, and transportation networks. The Systemic Risk and...
by nina | Apr 17, 2018 | Americas, Evolution and ecology, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes
The IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program has played an internationally leading role in bringing attention to the evolutionary consequences of exploiting the world’s fish stocks. Fishing not only affects the numbers of fish, but also their heritable characteristics....
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