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

这笔赠款为国际应用系统分析研究所（IIASA） 2006-2010年的核心支持提供美国会员捐款。IIASA是一个独立的、非政府的多边研究机构，致力于跨学科的、面向政策的研究。研究所是一个中立的论坛，对全球和国际问题进行持续的调查和讨论，其研究议程涵盖广泛的全球变化问题。它位于奥地利的拉克森堡，靠近维也纳。IIASA得到了北美、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。每个国家运动组织派一名代表参加该协会理事会，理事会任命一名主任担任该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计划，提交理事会，理事会必须每年批准这些预算和研究计划。Leen Hordijk教授自2002年7月起担任IIASA主任，理事会将于2008年7月任命新主任接替他的职位。美国理事会成员西蒙·莱文教授自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的研究在三个核心主题下进行：环境和自然资源；人口与社会；能源与技术。IIASA的研究人员将自然科学和社会科学的方法和模型结合起来进行分析，为决策者、科学界和全世界公众提供有关全球变化的政策见解。该研究所2005年的预算约为1200万欧元，其中62%由NMO成员国支付的会费提供。IIASA的项目工作通过研究人员和研究机构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、资源和具体的当地知识。该研究所在同行评议期刊上的发表记录显示了其研究活动的智力价值；全球对与IIASA研究项目合作的兴趣；招募IIASA的科学家为IPCC、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等国际科学伙伴关系作出贡献。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维持。IIASA的研究议程涉及21世纪世界面临的许多最困难的问题：能源安全、气候变化、土地利用变化和农业、人口增长和人力资本，以及灾难性风险。每个项目都旨在跨越学科界限，并与政策问题相关。除了在同行评议的文献中发表外，所有项目都包括传播和应用结果的组成部分。IIASA与美国国家气象局密切合作，将美国的投入和兴趣纳入研究项目，并确保其研究成果在美国适当的研究和政策论坛中被了解和利用。此外，IIASA的青年科学家暑期项目为研究生提供了一个独特的机会，与来自世界各地的其他50名学生一起探索他们的研究生工作在国际环境中的政策影响。并且在整个职业生涯中都有一个可以联系的同事网络。

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.