by nina | Mar 21, 2018 | Advanced Systems Analysis, Africa, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes
Ecological network analysis provides a systematic approach to assess the direct and indirect influences that one network node has on another. Researchers from the IIASA Advanced Systems Analysis Program engage in projects to develop these methodologies further and to...
by nina | Mar 16, 2018 | Africa, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, Water
The Worldwide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA) has commissioned IIASA to assess pathways towards large-scale, sustainable aviation biofuel deployment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to address the complex interlinkages in different dimensions of the...
by nina | Mar 16, 2018 | Americas, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, Water
In many basins across the globe, increasing competition for water resources that serve multiple users in a variety of sectors, along with uncertain climatic conditions, are forcing decision makers to rethink the way in which multipurpose water storage facilities are...
by nina | Mar 16, 2018 | Asia, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, Water
Climate and socioeconomic change is expected to contribute to water stress in Asia, which means that between 1.6 and 2 billion people could potentially experience severe water stress conditions by 2050. By applying water use scenarios developed by the Water Futures...
by nina | Mar 16, 2018 | Africa, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes, Water
Pressure on the world’s water resources has been mounting substantially in recent decades, and is expected to be further exacerbated by climatic and socioeconomic changes in the future. The Extended Continental-scale Hydro-economic Optimization Model (ECHO) developed...
by nina | Mar 8, 2018 | Arctic, Arctic Futures, Part of RANDOM POSTS - Yes
Only 10 million people live in the vast 20 million square kilometer territory surrounding the North Pole. This relatively small number of local people, are however one of the driving forces in active Arctic transformation. The IIASA Arctic Futures Initiative explored...
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