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News
17 July 2026
NIFoS Korea and IIASA explore collaboration on wildfire modelling and megafire response
Researchers from the Forest Fire Research Division of the National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS), Republic of Korea, visited the FLAM team in IIASA’s Agriculture, Forestry and Ecosystem Services (AFE) Group, Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program, on 8-9 July 2026 to discuss future collaboration on wildfire modelling, aerial firefighting strategies, and megafire response.
08 May 2025
OJERI-IIASA Symposium 2025 Wraps Up with Significant Exchanges on Wildfire and Sustainable Land-Water Management
The OJEong Resilience Institute at Korea University (OJERI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) successfully held the OJERI–IIASA Symposium 2025 on April 28–29 at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria. With the theme “Forest Fire and Water-Land Management under the Carbon (Emission) Cycle”, the symposium aimed to continue the strong partnership between IIASA and OJERI@KU in advancing cross-disciplinary research for sustainable forest and land-water management.
20 January 2025
IIASA co-organized the Digital Twin and Macro-ABM International Workshop in Korea
On October 25th, 2024, EM Research Group leader Sebastian Poledna participated in an international workshop in South Korea to promote Agent-based Modelling (ABM) as a tool for economic projections. Dr. Poledna delivered a keynote speech on "Economic forecasting with an Agent-based Model". The event was attended by other organizations such as OECD, IITP and WIFO, as well as several Korean universities, to name a few, and was co-hosted and funded by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The objective of the multidisciplinary convergence workshop was to explore innovative solutions in the digital age for data- and evidence-based national policy, using concepts and methods such as agent-based modeling, AI-driven approaches, and methods from complex systems science.
Events
IIASA, Laxenburg
Korean STEM students to visit IIASA
CMCC, Milan, Italy
Kick-Off meeting of The Horizon Europe project NEWPATHWAYS
Focus
31 October 2025
From YSSP to Guest Research Scholar: My journey with IIASA
What begins as a summer research experience can sometimes grow into a lasting collaboration. In this blog post, Jaewon Son reflects on her path from participating in the 2024 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP), to returning as a Guest Research Scholar with the Equity and Justice Research Group.
Annual Report 2024
Annual Report 2024: Strengthening Partnerships Highlights
In 2024, IIASA expanded its global partnerships to drive collaborative research and policy innovation in sustainability, climate action, and systems science through new agreements, joint initiatives, and high-level engagements.
Projects
Development of a Wildfire Spread (Spotting and Re-ignition) Prediction Algorithm Incorporating IIASA’s FLAM Model (KFA)
Korea Forest Environment Management System Using Special Mission Autonomous Mobility (K-FEMS)
Development of a Mid- to Long-Term Region-tailored Forest Fire Risk Projection and Damage Mitigation Model
Development of a global integrated assessment modeling system for climate-air pollutants management focused on Northeast Asia (GUIDE)
Publications
Kim, J., Hu, H., Kim, Y. , & Woo, J.-H. (2026). Improvement of Speciated Anthropogenic VOC Emissions in Support of KORea-United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) Field Campaign. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 26 (7) e50. 10.1007/s44408-026-00122-5.
Son, J., Martin, J. , Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Kramer, C., & Saha, S. (2026). Governance of urban green spaces as nature-based solutions in Korea and Germany. npj Urban Sustainability 6 (1) e43. 10.1038/s42949-026-00340-1.
Choi, M.-Y., Kim, J., Hu, H., Lee, J., Lee, A., Lee, J., Kim, Y. , & Woo, J.-H. (2026). Development of a Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission inventory in Korea. Atmospheric Environment 366 e121692. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121692.
Kim, Y., Lee, M., Hong, J., Lee, Y.-S., Wee, J., Lee, W.-K., Kraxner, F., & Cho, K. (2025). Emergy-based sustainability assessment of the rice cropping system under scaled-down intensification: Insights from a case study on South Korea (2003–2021). Journal of Cleaner Production 525 e146553. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146553.
Kim, W., Skalský, R. , Folberth, C. , Lee, S., Shchepashchenko, D. , Kraxner, F., Kim, J., Kim, C.-G., Jeon, S.-W., Son, Y., & Lee, W.-K. (2025). A Comparative Assessment of Food Security in South and North Korea Using Food Demand and Supply. Land 14 (9) e1703. 10.3390/land14091703.
Jo, H.-W. , Won, M.-S., Kraxner, F., Jeon, S., Son, Y., Krasovskiy, A. , & Lee, W.-K. (2025). Projecting Forest Fire Probability in South Korea under Climate Change, Population, and Forest Management Scenarios Using AI & Process-Based Hybrid Model (FLAM-Net). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J-STARS) 1-21. 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3564852.