The more you give, the more you get
Can we lift people out of energy poverty while simultaneously reducing carbon dioxide emissions? Camille Belmin tried to tackle this issue.
Globally coordinated mitigation policy could benefit environmentally conscious farmers
Stefan Frank discusses a recent study that looked into the impacts of ambitious EU agricultural mitigation policies on the livelihoods of farmers.
Global migration and the complex interplay between environmental and social factors
Venla Niva shares insights from a recent article exploring the interplay of environmental and social factors behind human migration.
Will mining the Amazon really bring economic development for Brazil?
Will opening protected areas to mining truly lead to economic development for Brazil? 2021 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participant, Sebastian Luckeneder is using spatial modeling to find out.
Assessing the cascading impacts of natural disasters
Asjad Naqvi and Irene Monasterolo discuss a framework they developed to assess how natural disasters cascade across socioeconomic systems.
Let’s not be arrogant about climate change adaptation
IIASA researcher Marina Andrijevic tackles some inconvenient but fundamental issues around climate change adaptation.
Strengthening the resilience of our global food system while advancing its transformation
Frank Sperling shares his thoughts on issues around sustainable and transformational food production in the context of the UN Food Systems Summit.
Paris Agreement politics at play: the case for carbon dioxide removal
Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participant Felix Schenuit dives into the politics and challenges surrounding carbon dioxide removal in international climate negotiations.
Warming waters, evolution, and the future for fisheries policy
YSSP participant Lyndsie Wszola explores how human interactions with warming freshwater systems have affected the evolution of fish species.
Science across closed borders – the quest for restoring forests in North Korea
Despite the political challenges, 2021 YSSP participant Eunbeen Park is researching ways to restore forests in isolated North Korea.
The gender dimension in my research
Do women lack power in the face of disaster? Are they really the fragile gender? Raquel Guimaraes’ research delves into issues of gender relating to disasters and climate change.
Can seaweed be the solution to our land problems?
Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participant Scott Spillias explores how the adoption of offshore seaweed farming could affect land use.
Making the Top 100 in Ecology: the story of a successful research paper
Florian Hofhansl writes about a successful paper recently ranked #32 on the 2020 list of the Top 100 most downloaded ecology papers.
IIASA Connect: Mapping the IIASA network under lockdown
Kekeletso Makau shares her experiences using IIASA Connect to bring in the South African systems analysis network.
Why we need basic sciences for sustainable development more than ever
Michael Spiro makes the case for why the world needs basic sciences for sustainable development now more than at any time in the past.