Interview: Linking climate adaptation and mitigation
An interview with Mia Landauer, IIASA guest research scholar, on the interrelationships between climate adaptation and mitigation policies, especially in cities.
Towards a Catholic North America in 2062?
What will the future landscape of religion look like in North America? IIASA demographer Anne Goujon describes the results from a new set of projections accounting for different assumptions about fertility, conversion and secularization rates, and migration
What do our models really represent?
Dan Jessie, a research scholar in the IIASA Advanced Systems Analysis program, reports back from a recent conference on model validation.
How do you operationalize the water-energy nexus?
On World Water Day, IIASA Water researcher Paul Yillia reflects on the Water-Energy Nexus, and what it means in practice.
Envisioning a better global future: Reporting back from the World in 2050 launch meeting
Guest post by Joost Vervoort, of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Vervoort, a science-to-policy expert, works closely with IIASA researchers in the Ecosystems Services and Management Program.
Interview: Outside the castle walls
IIASA Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases researcher Fabian Wagner is spending a year at Princeton University as a visiting professor. We caught up with him to find out what he’s working on.
You will miss the river when it runs dry: Water governance at the U.S. – Mexico border
Luzma Fabiola Nava, an IIASA Colosio Fellow, on the challenges of water governance at the U.S. – Mexico border.
A long road ahead on risk-sensitive development in Madagascar
IIASA researcher Junko Mochizuki brings an on-the-ground view of risk-sensitive development in Madagascar.
A futuristic view of farming
Precision farming, cultured meat, and genetic modification. Which technologies make the most sense for future agriculture?
How can research help achieve resilience?
How can research help achieve resilience? Research Scholar Elisabeth Suwandschieff blogs about the highlights from the 4th Viennese Talks on Resilience.