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

Von WinterFeldt1148655这笔赠款为2011-2015历年的国际应用系统分析研究所(IIASA)提供美国会员的核心支持。IIASA是一个独立的、非政府的、多边研究机构，致力于跨学科、以政策为导向的研究。它得到了美洲、欧洲、亚洲、非洲和中东的18个成员国的支持，占世界人口的50%以上。IIASA位于奥地利拉克森堡，靠近维也纳。国际农业发展协会2011至2020年的十年战略重点关注三个全球问题领域：能源和气候变化、粮食和水以及贫困和公平。IIASA 2011年至2015年的研究计划描述了九个研究计划，这些计划开发和应用研究所的系统分析方法，以增进对三个全球问题领域的理解并为解决方案做出贡献。这些研究项目包括能源、减轻空气污染和温室气体、生态系统服务和管理、水、生态和进化、风险政策和脆弱性、人口、技术和高级系统分析。此外，政策论坛促进了IIASA的研究人员和世界各地的政策制定者之间的互动；探索性项目提供了应对不断变化的全球条件的灵活性。该协会的研究人员结合了自然科学和社会科学以及应用数学和工程学的方法和模型，以确定以科学为基础的全球问题的政策解决方案。国际协会2010年的预算约为1,600万欧元，其中50%来自成员国的会费。另一半来自合同和赠款。预算是通过由研究人员和研究机构组成的国际科学网络高度利用的，这些机构贡献了他们的技能、资源和具体的当地知识。智力价值：IIASA研究活动的智力价值在于它创新性地使用定量模型和计算技术来探索可能的未来。IIASA的高质量工作体现在以下方面：它在同行评议期刊上的发表记录；与IIASA研究计划合作的全球兴趣；关于土地利用、森林、能源技术和人口多状态预测的无与伦比的数据集，以及招募IIASA的科学家为国际科学伙伴关系做出贡献，如政府间气候变化专门委员会、其他联合国能源、粮食、发展和人口咨询机构，以及千年生态系统评估、世界野生动物基金会林业评估和国家科学院的研究。研究质量是通过理事会监督、外部审查和外部科学咨询委员会的战略评估系统来保持的。更广泛的影响：IIASA的研究议程涉及21世纪世界面临的许多最困难的问题。每个项目都是跨学科的，负责支持以问题为中心和以解决方案为导向的研究，并包括传播和应用结果的组成部分。IIASA致力于将美国的投入和兴趣纳入研究计划，并确保其研究结果为美国适当的研究和政策论坛所知并加以利用。在非常成功的青年科学家暑期计划(YSSP)的基础上，IIASA的能力建设计划将在未来五年得到显著加强，该计划每年夏天为来自世界各地的50-60名研究生提供机会，在国际背景下探索他们的研究的政策影响。此外，国际系统分析研究所还有一个博士后项目，并正在开展活动，通过教学、讲习班和合作项目加强成员国的系统分析网络。

von Winterfeldt1148655This grant provides the U.S. membership contribution toward core support for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for calendar years 2011-2015. IIASA is an independent, non-governmental, multilateral research institution devoted to interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research. It is supported by 18 member countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, representing more than 50 percent of the world population. IIASA is located in Laxenburg, Austria, near Vienna. IIASA's ten-year strategy for 2011 to 2020 focuses on three global problem areas: Energy and Climate Change, Food and Water, and Poverty and Equity. IIASA's Research Plan for 2011 to 2015 describes nine research programs that develop and apply the Institute's systems analysis approaches to advancing understanding and contributing to solutions to the three global problem areas. These research programs include Energy, Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases, Ecosystems Services and Management, Water, Ecology and Evolution, Risk Policy and Vulnerability, Population, Technology, and Advanced Systems Analysis. In addition, a Policy Forum facilitates interaction between IIASA's researchers and policy-makers worldwide; and Exploratory Projects offer flexibility to respond to changing global conditions. IIASA investigators combine methods and models from the natural and social sciences as well as applied mathematics and engineering to identify science-based policy solutions to global problems. IIASA's budget for 2010 was approximately 16 million EURO, of which 50 percent was provided by membership payments from member countries. The other half comes from contracts and grants. The budget is highly leveraged through international scientific networks of researchers and research institutions that contribute their skills, resources and specific local knowledge. Intellectual Merit: The intellectual merit of IIASA's research activities lies in its innovative use of quantitative modeling and computational technologies to explore possible futures. The high quality of IIASA's work is demonstrated through its publication record in peer-reviewed journals; the worldwide interest in collaboration with IIASA's research programs; unparalleled datasets on land use, forests, energy technologies and population multi-state projections, and the recruitment of IIASA scientists to contribute to international scientific partnerships such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and other United Nations Energy, Food, Development, and Population advisory bodies, as well as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, World Wildlife Fund forestry evaluations and National Academy of Sciences 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: The IIASA research agenda addresses many of the most difficult issues facing the world in the 21st Century. Every program is interdisciplinary and charged to support problem focused and solution oriented research, and includes components for dissemination and application of the results. IIASA works 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 United States. IIASA's capacity building program will be significantly enhanced in the next five years, building on the highly successful Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP), which each summer offers 50-60 graduate students from around the world the opportunity to explore the policy implications of their research in an international setting. In addition, IIASA has a post-doctoral program and is developing activities to strengthen systems analysis networks in member countries through teaching, workshops and collaborative projects.