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News
22 October 2026
Global agricultural productivity growth is in decline
Global agricultural productivity growth has hit its lowest level since the 1970s, threatening future food security. IIASA researchers contributed to Chapter 3 of the 2026 GAP Report published by the Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Initiative at Virginia Tech, exploring how regenerative agriculture could help reverse this trend while improving farm profitability and resilience.
15 October 2026
IIASA strengthens science diplomacy ties at UNGA in New York
IIASA Science Diplomacy Director and Head of Communications and External Relations Susie Kitchens represented the Institute at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Week and Science Summit in New York in September, contributing to discussions on how science and international cooperation can help address shared global challenges.
13 July 2026
From innovation to impact: Professor Subra Suresh visits IIASA
IIASA recently welcomed Professor Subra Suresh – Vannevar Bush Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor at Large at Brown University, former Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and former President of Carnegie Mellon University and Nanyang Technological University Singapore – for a full day of exchange culminating in a Science Parliament Lecture titled, Innovation 4.0 for Humanity 4.0.
Events
Johannessaal, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Inaugural Howard Raiffa Lecture: The Ethics of National Security Decisions: Lessons from the Social Sciences
Focus
16 July 2026
From uncertainty to action: Making decisions without perfect answers
Day two at the Raiffa Academy: IIASA Journalist-in-Residence Lisa Palmer on decision-analysis tools that navigate scientific uncertainty, competing interests and the realities of negotiation under pressure.
15 July 2026
Can decision science help fix the science-policy gap?
Lisa Palmer reflects on the Raiffa Academy which opened with a premise that many global challenges suffer from failures in decision-making, negotiation and implementation, not a lack of data.
Projects
Analysis of Impacts of Renewable Fuels and Renewable Fuel Policies for the US Environmental Protection Agency Using GLOBIOM (EPA)
Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities (INFRANORTH)
Publications
Kloft, S., Guimaraes, R. , Hyun, J.-H. , & López-Cevallos, D. (2026). Measuring trust in public health authorities in the United States: An item response theory analysis. PLOS One 21 (8) e0355498. 10.1371/journal.pone.0355498.
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.
Ton, M.J., de Moel, H., de Bruijn, J. , Reimann, L., Botzen, W.J.W., & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2024). Economic damage from natural hazards and internal migration in the United States. Natural Hazards 10.1007/s11069-024-06987-2.
Han, S., Hu, M., Gao, X., Huang, Y., Guo, F. , Shen, G., Wang, D., Lin, S., & Zhang, K. (2024). Energy burden and mental health: A national study in the United States. Science of the Total Environment 955 e176796. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176796.
Ton, M.J., de Moel, H., de Bruijn, J. , Botzen, W.J.W., Karabiyik, H., Friedrich, M., & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2024). The impact of natural hazards on migration in the United States and the effect of spatial dependence. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 1-19. 10.1080/09640568.2024.2359447.
Marois, G. , Gietel-Basten, S., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Zellmann, J.G., Reiter, C. , & Lutz, W. (2024). Measuring Human Capital with Productivity-Weighted Labor Force: Methodology and Projections for China, India, the United States, and the European Union. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-005