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
An Artificial World for Forecasting (Dream Valley)
The Dream Valley Project will develop a cross-disciplinary modeling and assessment framework for simulating complex dynamical systems and testing 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 in order to better understand how to further reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. More
Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Living Systems
This project will improve models for assessing the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of living systems to allow a better understanding of human-induced impacts on the biosphere More
Eco-evolutionary Vegetation Modeling and Management
The development of eco-evolutionary models will allow scientists to better understand how plants around the world respond to climate change and disturbances such as fires and grazing. More
Improving Earth Observation Methodology (EGIDA)
EGIDA is 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 contributes 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
Evolutionarily Sustainable Consumption
The evolutionary consequences of fishing affect a host of heritable traits in fish populations, and IIASA researchers are developing a toolkit to allow scientists to assess these impacts. 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
Air pollution control strategies for Chinese cities with co-benefits for climate (GAINS-City)
By linking tools developed by Chinese researchers with IIASA’s GAINS model, the project connects data about urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions to allow Chinese officials to develop clean air policies for Chinese mega-cities that also lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions. 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 Management Solutions for Robust Food, Energy, and Water Security
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)
High-frequency, high-resolution imaging from new satellites is providing detailed agricultural information that will allow scientists to better monitor the impacts of drought and climate change on crops and model future agricultural productivity under different climate change scenarios. More
Life Cycle Impacts of Goods, Services, Activities (LC-IMPACT)
The LC-IMPACT project is developing methods to assess the environmental life cycle impact of a vast number of goods, services and activities. The assessments examine the environmental costs of such things as erosion caused by land use and threats from toxic substances used in production processes. More
Evaluating Black Carbon Cuts in Finland (MACEB)
IIASA researchers are using the GAINS model in a partnership with Finnish scientists to develop a tool by which the climate effects of reducing black carbon emissions from different economic sectors can be evaluated. 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)
Natural disasters are typically treated as individual incidents, but scientists are developing methods to link events such as earthquakes and landslides to enable policy makers 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 uses 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 is a collaboration to develop the tools needed to predict the impact technological changes will have on Europe’s environment, economies, and social institutions over the next several decades. More
Risk Adaptation in the Financial Arena
This exploratory project brings the anthropological theory of risk to bear on the financial arena and examines how “clumsy” solutions might lead to better responses to an ever-shifting risk environment. More
Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics
This project will deepen the understanding of cascading failure in networks and develop ways to lessen the risks of collapse and improve recovery. 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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