Making the change
In this issue:
- Soil in the spotlight: Soil is under increasing pressure, but it may also hold the solutions to some of the planet's most pressing problems;
- More than connecting the dots: New methods in network science bring fresh insight to complex systems;
- Research for the future: IIASA announces a new research plan to guide the next 5 years of science.
Making the change: Have we got what it takes to achieve sustainability?
Options Magazine Summer 2016: Integration of all dimensions of sustainability— problems, drivers, and impacts—is needed, and IIASA is blazing the trail. More
Soil in the spotlight
Options Magazine Summer 2016:Soil on our planet—fundamental to agriculture, biodiversity, and water—is under increasing pressure from human influence. But it may also hold the solution to some of our most pressing problems. More
Divided we fall
Options Magazine Summer 2016: Reports on the ground speak of separate camps of scientists and policymakers as “tectonic plates—huge, rigid, and engaged in a never‑ending clash.” Yet science and policy must work together if we are to achieve a sustainable future for humanity. How can we get the very best from science‑policy collaborations? More
More than connecting the dots
Options Magazine Summer 2016: New methods in network science bring fresh insight to complex systems. More
Interview: Disposable lives, globalization, and the future of sustainability
Options Magazine Summer 2016:Shalini Randeria is rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and an IIASA distinguished visiting fellow. More
Opinion: Science diplomacy for the age of globalization
Options Magazine Summer 2016: Daryl Copeland is a former diplomat, senior fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and policy fellow at the University of Montreal’s Centre for International Studies and Research. More
Can carbon markets work?
Options Magazine Summer 2016: Carbon markets have been floundering, IIASA research explores whether they can be saved. More
Forecasting landslides: Systems analysis gives the bigger picture
Options Magazine Summer 2016: Dalia Kirschbaum, YSSP'06 alumna, applies systems analysis and citizen science to the study of landslides at NASA More
Climate change policies could increase smog
Options Magazine Summer 2016: YSSP’15 participant and Peccei award winner Carlijn Hendriks explores the interlinkages between air pollution, bioenergy, and climate change More
Best foot forward
Options Magazine Summer 2016: Q&A with Daniela Weber, research scholar in the IIASA World Population Program. She works with the Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective project on developing new measures of aging as alternatives to chronological age. More
