2014 research collaborations

The Risk, Policy and Vulnerability Program (RPV) is well positioned to make substantial contributions to all of IIASA’s new projects and strategic areas by building its core expertise on risk analysis, modeling resilience, policy-oriented investigation of disaster risk, climate policy, and research on transitions.

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Cooperation

The following are areas of cooperation within IIASA to be undertaken by RPV in 2014.

  • Poverty and Equity - RPV will contribute staff expertise on catastrophic risk management, safety nets and analysis of poverty traps.
  • Energy and Climate Change - RPV will analyze topical mitigation and adaptation issues with methodologies that combine systems modeling with the appraisal of economic, political, and institutional dynamics.
  • Food and Water - RPV will examine flood resilience strategies embedded in research on water challenges.

Large in-house projects and flagship projects will be fundamental for advancing critical research foci by in-house collaboration.

  • With the Evolution and Ecology (EEP) and Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) programs, RPV will co-lead the project on “Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics,” which addresses the risks of cascading failures in networks. The project develops a general IIASA framework for analyzing systemic risk in ecological systems, financial systems, and the global insurance system.
  • With EEP, RPV will co-lead the “Equitable Governance of Common Goods” project to elucidate robust options for designing and promoting the self-organized emergence of equitable governance solutions to meet challenges such as those exemplified in the tragedy of the commons problem syndrome. 
  • In another flagship project on “Accounting for Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in IIASA models,“ RPV will seek to further link its work on risk and resilience with IIASA models. In the CATSIM model it will extend the representation of socioeconomic heterogeneity in drivers of vulnerability and exposure (population, education, income distribution) as well as outcomes (poverty and poverty traps).
  • In another collaboration which will be an externally funded, cross-cutting activity, in flood resilience, RPV will continue to work closely with the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) and the Water (WAT) programs toward developing a decision-support model framework on flood risk and resilience. This will be tested and applied in case locations, such as  Indonesia, Peru, and Nepal in collaboration with development and humanitarian partners. 


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