POP has been expanding demographic methods to make them more relevant for the analysis of contemporary global policy challenges. In particular, the program has operationalized the methods of multi-dimensional population dynamics by level of highest educational attainment for all countries in the world and produced, through this, the “human core” of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)—the new future scenarios broadly agreed by the global environmental change research community.
POP has substantially advanced its work on redefining age and aging. It is also carrying out innovative analysis of demographic aspects of cognitive aging, labor-force participation, health, and vulnerability to environmental change.
In 2015, POP further intensified its scientific collaboration with other IIASA programs, conducting cross-cutting projects in particular with respect to modelling the heterogeneity of human agents in different IIASA models.
POP regularly disseminates scientific results to policy- and decision-makers. In 2015 it published the Global Human Capital Data Sheet.
CONTACT DETAILS
Interim Deputy Director General for Science Directorate - DDG for Science Department
Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Population and Just Societies Program
Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group - Population and Just Societies Program
Research program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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