Poverty & Equity Research Projects
Age and Cohort Change (ACC)
The ACC project studies age, cohort and international variation in workers' productivity, and estimates and projects changes in religiosity by demographic characteristics in all countries in the world. More
Livestock Production Scenarios (AnimalChange)
AnimalChange creates scenarios that project 20 and 40 years into the future to allow policymakers to see what impact climate change is likely to have on livestock production in Europe, Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. More
Development, Climate Change and Clumsiness
Policy disputes over the most effective way to use development aid to cope with climate change are best resolved with solutions that are clumsy, not elegant. More
Policy Instruments for Decarbonizing Energy (Climate Governance)
The Climate Governance project compares the potential of alternative policy instruments at national and regional scales to decarbonize the world's energy supply. More
Energy and Economic Development
Access to energy and electricity are fundamental to meeting basic human needs, and they also spur growth in income and improvements in wellbeing. IIASA researchers are studying how access to energy supply affects people’s lives and livelihoods, and how to provide energy services equitably. More
Energy and Infrastructure
Developing countries’ demand for infrastructure, including roads, electrical grids, and public water systems, is growing rapidly. Building and maintaining that infrastructure requires energy, but how much? More
Household Energy Transitions
Many people rely on traditional and polluting forms of fuel like wood and coal that contribute to health problems and air pollution. How do people make choices about fuel and appliances, and how can policies encourage people to switch to cleaner fuels? 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 Policy Tools for Climate Change Adaptation (MEDIATION)
MEDIATION uses case studies to provide European policymakers with scientific information and technical tools to develop improved climate change adaptation policies More
Poverty Traps
To escape from poverty traps that are caused by natural disasters, low-income households need assistance from public and private partnerships that are informed by risk analysis and based on local needs. More
Accelerating Cuts in Greenhouse Gases (RESPONSES)
RESPONSES is a project to develop strategies that will enable European Union countries to accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and better adapt to environmental, social, and economic disruptions caused by climate change. 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
Improving Landslide Risk Responses (SafeLand)
SafeLand is a response to the growing risk of landslides in mountainous regions of Europe due to climate change-related increases in overall rainfall, concentrated rains over short periods, more extreme weather, and increased snowmelts in Alpine regions. More
PUBLICATIONS
Hochrainer-Stigler S, Sharma RB, Mechler R (2012)
Onyeji I, Bazilian M, Nussbaumer P (2012)
Pachauri S, Spreng D (2012)