Support for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Hordijk 0715160该赠款提供了美国会员对国际应用系统分析研究所（IIASA）2006-2010年核心支持的贡献。系统分析所是一个独立的非政府多边研究机构，致力于跨学科的政策研究。研究所是一个中立的论坛，可持续调查和讨论全球和国际问题，研究议程涵盖广泛的全球变化问题。系统分析所得到北美、欧洲、亚洲和中东18个国家的非政府国家成员组织网络的支持。每个国家管理组织派一名代表参加系统分析所理事会理事会，理事会任命一名所长担任研究所的首席执行官。主任负责制定和执行研究所的所有活动，包括编制预算和研究方案，提交理事会，理事会必须每年批准。Leen Hordijk教授自2002年7月起担任系统分析所所长，理事会将于2008年7月任命一位新所长接替他。美国理事会成员Simon Levin教授自2003年11月起担任理事会主席，并于2006年11月开始第二个三年任期。IIASA的研究人员将自然科学和社会科学的方法和模型结合在一起进行分析，为决策者、科学界和全世界的公众提供关于全球变化的政策见解。IIASA的项目工作通过研究人员和研究机构组成的国际科学网络得到高度利用，这些研究人员和研究机构贡献了他们的技能、资源和特定的当地知识。IIASA研究活动的智力价值通过该研究所在同行评审期刊上的出版记录得到了证明;全世界对与IIASA研究项目合作的兴趣;征聘系统分析所的科学家为国际科学伙伴关系作出贡献，如政府间气候变化专门委员会、世界粮食首脑会议、千年发展目标、粮农组织农业生态研究、千年生态系统评估和联合国人口研究。研究质量通过理事会监督、外部审查和外部科学咨询委员会的战略评估系统来保持。系统分析所的研究议程具有更广泛的影响力，它解决了21世纪世界面临的许多最困难的问题：能源安全、气候变化、土地使用变化和农业、人口增长和人力资本以及灾难性风险。每个程序的目的是跨越学科界限，并与政策问题有关。除了在同行评审的文献中发表之外，所有方案都包括传播和应用结果的组成部分。IIASA与美国国家气象组织密切合作，将美国的投入和兴趣纳入研究计划，并确保其研究成果在美国的适当研究和政策论坛中得到了解和利用。与来自世界各地的其他50名学生，并与他们可以在整个职业生涯中打电话的同事网络出现。

Hordijk0715160This grant provides the American membership contribution toward core support for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for the years 2006-2010. IIASA is an independent, non-governmental, multilateral research institution devoted to interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research. The Institute serves as a neutral forum for sustained investigation and discussion of global and international issues, with a research agenda covering a broad range of global change issues. It is located in Laxenburg, Austria, near Vienna.IIASA is supported by a network of nongovernmental National Member Organizations (NMOs) in 18 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Each NMO sends one representative to the IIASA Governing Council, which appoints a Director to serve as Chief Executive Officer for the Institute. The Director is responsible for the formulation and execution of all Institute activities, including preparing budgets and research programs for submission to the Council, which must approve them annually. Prof. Leen Hordijk has served as Director of IIASA since July 2002, and the Council will appoint a new Director to succeed him in July 2008. The U.S. Council member, Professor Simon Levin, has served as Council Chair since November, 2003, and was appointed to a second three-year term beginning November 2006.IIASA's research is conducted within three core themes: Environment and Natural Resources; Population and Society; and Energy and Technology. IIASA investigators combine methods and models from both natural and social sciences in analyses that provide policy insight on global change issued for decision makers, the scientific community, and the public worldwide.The Institute's budget for 2005 was approximately twelve million EURO, of which 62% was provided by membership payments from the NMO nations. The project work at IIASA is highly leveraged through international scientific networks of researchers and research institutions that contribute their skills, resources, and specific local knowledge.The intellectual merit of IIASA's research activities is demonstrated through the institute's publication record in peer-reviewed journals; the worldwide interest in collaboration with IIASA's research programs; and the recruitment of IIASA scientists to contribute to international scientific partnerships such as the IPCC, World Food Summits, Millennium Development Goals, FAO Agro-Ecological Studies, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and UN Population studies. The research quality is maintained through a system of Council oversight, external reviews, and strategic assessments by an external Science Advisory Committee.Broader impacts are inherent in IIASA's research agenda, which addresses many of the most difficult issues facing the world in the 21st Century: energy security, climate change, land use change and agriculture, population growth and human capital, and catastrophic risk. Every program is designed to cross disciplinary boundaries and be relevant to policy issues. All programs include components for dissemination and application of the results, in addition to publication in the peer-reviewed literature. IIASA works closely with the U.S. NMO to incorporate U.S. input and interests in the research program, and to ensure that its research results are known and utilized in appropriate research and policy fora in the U.S. Moreover, IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Program offers a unique opportunity for graduate students to explore the policy implications of their graduate work in an international setting, with 50 other students from around the world, and emerge with a network of colleagues on whom they can call throughout their careers.