Advanced Systems Analysis Research Projects
Achieving Low Carbon Economies (Attainability)
By identifying which barriers to achieving deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can be removed by changing policies and economic incentives, the Attainability Project is pinpointing the best short- and long-term responses available to policymakers. More
Artificial World for Forecasting (Dream Valley)
The Project develops a cross-disciplinary modeling and assessment framework. It consists of two parts: Dream Valley simulator and A3 framework. The Dream Valley simulator simulates complex dynamical systems, while the A3 framework implements and tests methods for forecasting their future behaviors. More
European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies (EC4MACS)
EC4MACS provides scientific and economic analyses of policies in support of Europe’s Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and the European Climate Change Programme. More
Improving Earth Observation Methodology (EGIDA)
EGIDA was a technical project to create a standard methodology to support GEOSS, the Global Earth Observations System of Systems, through development of evaluation processes, assessment indexes, and databases. More
EuroGEOSS — A European Approach to GEOSS
EuroGEOSS contributed to the international effort to create the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) by making existing systems that gather data on forestry, drought, and biodiversity interoperable and easier to use. More
Modeling the Structure of Forests
The Forest Structure project is creating a model that, by encompassing a broad scale that runs from individual trees up to entire forests, will allow researchers to better understand the impact of climate change, major disturbances, and succession on forests. More
Interactions in Economic Sectors (Game Dynamics)
The goal of the Game Dynamics Project is to better understand the highly complex dynamics of interactions between players acting in different sectors with no set behavior patterns. More
Global
Economic Growth and Optimization
Using systems analysis tools to examine the drivers of economic growth, this project is developing economic scenarios to determine how best to achieve sustainable development. More
Management
of Heterogeneous Dynamical Systems
The project’s goal is to understand the heterogeneous interactions of the parts of large socioeconomic systems that function across many sectors and are driven by multiple agents. More
Integrated Analysis and Modeling of Land Use Efficiency and Security under Rapid Agricultural Transformation due to Urban-Rural Dynamics in China
This joint project of the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) develops an integrated methodology for investigating the interplay between urban development and ecological stress in rural mountain areas in China. More
Integrated Modeling of Robust Solutions for Food, Energy, and Water Security Management
The project, which provides policy advice to Ukraine, investigates how the complex linkages and differences between agriculture, energy, and water security can be sustainably developed and coordinated at both the spatial and temporal scales, given the potential systemic risks involved. More
Integrated modeling of food, water, and energy
This project develops new and advanced models, methods and tools for supporting robust decision-making for complex problems under deep uncertainties, an interlinked spatio-temporal, multi-agent decision environment, and systemic risks. More
Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity (ISAC)
ISAC used a new generation of high-frequency, high-resolution imaging from new satellites to provide detailed agricultural information for improved scientific monitoring. More
Life Cycle Impacts of Goods, Services, Activities (LC-IMPACT)
The LC-IMPACT project developed methods to assess the environmental life cycle impact of a vast number of goods, services, and activities. Assessments examined the environmental costs of, for example, erosion caused by land use and toxic substances used in production processes. More
Evaluating Black Carbon Cuts in Finland (MACEB)
IIASA researchers used the GAINS model, in partnership with Finnish scientists, to develop a tool to evaluate the climate effects of reducing black carbon emissions from different economic sectors More
Integrated Assessment Modelling for negotiations under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)
IIASA's Mitigation of Air Pollution & Greenhouse Gases Program develops modeling tools that identify strategies for European efforts to control air pollution in a cost-effective way. More
Linking Disasters for Risk Reduction (MATRIX)
The project developed methods to link events such as earthquakes, landslides, and other natural disasters, to enable policymakers to take more effective risk reduction measures. More
Creating Synthetic Knowledge for Complex Systems (Model Integration)
The Model Integration Project will overcome the limitations of current integrated models in studying complex systems and develop simpler models that can create synthetic knowledge and describe complex systems from different perspectives. More
Envisioning Paradigm Shifts in Society (PASHMINA)
The PASHMINA project used complex modeling to create scenarios that envision changes in the use of energy, transportation, land, and the environment 20 to 40 years into the future. More
Impact of Technological Change in Europe (PROSUITE)
PROSUITE aimed to develop the tools needed to predict the impact of technological changes on Europe’s environment, economies, and social institutions over the next several decades. More
Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics
The Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics project will examine how different types of systems, ranging from financial to ecological and beyond, are at risk of cascades of failures. As well as assessing this risk, this cross-cutting project will develop tools to help prevent such events. More
Drivers of Extreme Events
The goal of this project is to understand mechanisms leading to extreme events in complex dynamic, with special attention paid to the risk of cascading failure in networks. More
Assessment of Northern Eurasian Forests (ZAPAS)
The ZAPÁS project is intended to make space-based biomass inventory assessments more reliable for boreal forests of Northern Eurasia. More
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