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IIASA Podcasts For a trial period,IIASA is offering podcastsso that you can listen to the lecturesof leading scientists taking place at the Institute.The lectures are part of a program for 50 internationalyoung scientists who have been selected to research at IIASAduring the summer 2006.
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31-The Global Energy Assessment - Policy implications Updated: 2010-10-04 07:30:22 Description: Prof. Mark Jaccard leads the policy module of the Global Energy Assessment. In this IIASA podacast he discusses the vision for the GEA and the policy challenges and opportunities that will need to be addressed to achieve a transformation of the glob...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 30-IIASA: Climate change - Copenhagen to Cancun Updated: 2010-06-14 10:24:22 Description: Fabian Wagner discusses the Copenhagen Accord, the upcoming COP16 meeting in Cancun, and the many options available for countries and individuals to tackle GHG emissions....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 29-Living with transformation Updated: 2010-06-10 10:24:22 Description: Professor Holling discusses how the rules of adaptive management, as they apply in ecological systems, can inform the evolution of social systems and their potential to succeed or fail....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 28-100% renewable electricity: A 2050 roadmap for Europe and North Africa Updated: 2010-03-29 10:24:22 Description: Dr. Anthony Patt explains how a mix of policy and market based development initiatives could enable Europe and North Africa to transition to 100% renewable electricity supplies by 2050....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27-Research for a World in Transition Updated: 2009-12-03 10:24:22 Description: At a public lecture at the London School of Economics, Professor von Winterfeldt explains IIASA's new strategy for the coming decade....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26-Institutions Needed for Climate Management Updated: 2009-10-07 10:05:00 Description: Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling argues that, to tackle climate change, the world requires at least three institutions that do not yet exist....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 25-Climate Change: Planning For and Adapting To Disasters Updated: 2009-05-29 09:55:00 Description: Dr. Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer explains how insurance mechanisms can help poor nations adapt to the ever increasing risk of extreme events....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 24-Introducing IIASA's New Director Updated: 2009-01-26 10:35:00 Description: Professor Detlof von Winterfeldt explains his enthusiasm for leading IIASA and what he hopes to achieve over the coming years....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 23-Science and Innovation in the 21st Century Updated: 2008-12-03 08:00:00 Description: Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the Government Office for Science, Professor John Beddington, CMG, FRS, discusses how science and innovation can help society deal with the interconnected issues of food security, energy secur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 22-Energy versus Climate Change Updated: 2008-11-12 09:00:00 Description: At the Global Economic Symposium in Schleswig-Holstein in September 2008, IIASA Acting Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic talks with Romesh Vaitilingam about the options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: improved energy efficiency; renewables; ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21-Globalization and Equity: Kicking Away the Ladder Updated: 2008-08-16 11:00:00 Description: Heterodox economist Dr. Ha-Joon Chang cites examples from economic history to describe how industrialized nations kick away the ladder they used to achieve their own development in order to prevent developing nations from following. For economists an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20-Methods and Tools for Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA) Updated: 2008-07-28 06:30:00 Description: The integrated approach to sustainability assessment is based on a cyclical process of scoping, envisioning, experimenting, and learning. Dr. Jäger discusses the development and application of ISA in the recently-completed European Commission-funded...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 19-Sustainable Development: From Agenda Setting to Policy Actions Updated: 2008-07-14 08:00:00 Description: Dr. Mahendra Shah, Dean of IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Program, discusses the wealth of diversity in nature and the human world. He argues that the realization of the potential of this diversity is the key to promoting world-wide development....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18-Trends in Emerging Technologies Updated: 2008-07-10 08:00:00 Description: Professor Kenneth Oye of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyzes the trends in emerging technologies and their implications for energy security, the environment, and development. His lecture includes case studies from both the biotechnolog...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 17-Health and Global Development Updated: 2008-06-18 19:15:00 Description: With trillions of dollars being spent on global health to lengthen lives, alleviate pain, and reduce misery, we are still confronted with apparent signs of a worsening situation. Dr. Landis MacKellar, Leader of IIASA's Health and Global Change Projec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 16-Equitable Solutions to Greenhouse Warming Updated: 2008-05-20 10:15:00 Description: Professor Stephen Pacala, Director of Princeton Environmental Institute, analyzes fairness and climate mitigation and discovers the responsibility for emissions reductions does not travel with national identity or with DNA. Rather emissions go hand i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 15-The Three Fs: Food, Fiber, and Fuel Updated: 2008-04-06 09:35:00 Description: In a cartographic strip-tease, IIASA Deputy Director Sten Nilsson points out how most of the land theoretically available for growing biofuels, as a substitute for fossil fuels, is either protected or already in use for growing crops, raising livesto...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 14-Managing Nuclear Proliferation: A Response Updated: 2008-03-23 12:00:00 Description: After hearing Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling present his rather optimistic interpretation of the recent nuclear past and a nuclear future, Yegor Gaidar -- Director, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Russia -- scraps his own prepared con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13-Managing Nuclear Proliferation Updated: 2008-03-23 10:45:00 Description: Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling argues how successful the world has been at maintaining nuclear non-proliferation, and how fortunate it is that no nuclear weapon has been exploded in warfare since 1945....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12-The Changing World: Energy, Climate and Social Futures Updated: 2008-02-12 12:00:00 Description: In his presentation at IIASA's thirty-fifth anniversary conference, Global Development: Science and Policies for the Future, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Leader of IIASA's Energy and Transitions to New Technologies Programs and Co-Leader of its Greenhouse Ga...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11-The World in 2050 Updated: 2008-01-15 13:00:00 Description: World class economist and expert on global development, Jeffrey Sachs looks towards the world in 2050. He examines the fundamental drivers that are changing our world and the key challenges we face. Jeffrey Sachs was a keynote speaker at IIASA's thir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10-Providing Science Advice to Governments Updated: 2007-08-14 12:00:00 Description: Drawing on his experience in three U.S. science advisory positions and his belief that a political decision informed by science is a better decision than one which ignores it, Dr. Norman Neureiter underscores the importance of scientific cooperation ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 09-Modeling Practice: Opportunities and Pitfalls Updated: 2007-08-11 08:00:00 Description: "Modeling is more an art than a science," claims IIASA specialist Dr. Marek Makowski. As he shares his ideas on good modeling practice, he discusses some challenges, limitations, problems, and warnings of modeling. You don't need to be a modeler to a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 08-Communicating Science Updated: 2007-08-06 19:30:00 Description: Media relations expert David Kinley presents a three-part lecture comprising an overview of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a real example of communicating science using three reports into the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, and ti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 07-Pro-poor Globalization Updated: 2007-08-04 18:00:00 Description: In this provocative lecture, Professor Machiko Nissanke shares her thoughts and research results on how the process of globalization affects different aspects of poverty in the developing world. She presents a framework for "pro-poor globalization," ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 06-Learning to Live in a Global Commons Updated: 2007-07-06 17:00:00 Description: Chair of IIASA's Council and Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, Simon Levin examines the conditions under which cooperative behavior emerges in complex natural ecosystems. He asks what lessons can be learned from our examination of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 05-Human Capital, Age Structure & Economic Growth Updated: 2007-01-31 08:00:00 Description: IIASA demographers present a new dataset of educational attainment by age and sex for 120 countries for the period 1970-2000. By exploiting the demographic dimension of the education data, the researchers show aggregate changes in educational attainm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 04-The Meaning of the 21st Century Updated: 2006-11-21 09:00:00 Description: The "guru of the information age," Dr James Martin highlights some of the extraordinary changes that will mark the twenty-first century, making our grandchildren's world almost incomprehensible from current perspectives....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 03-Slanted Truths and Life's Evolution Updated: 2006-08-30 09:00:00 Description: Professor Lynn Margulis gives a fascinating account of a revolution in evolution and her work in symbiogenesis....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 02-Back and Forth Between the Intimate and the Cosmic Updated: 2006-08-04 05:00:00 Description: Noted space scientists and educationist Professor Yash Pal presents his own personal excursions between the cosmic and the intimate during his passionate engagement with science, technology, education, and the people of India....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 01-Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist Updated: 2006-07-11 12:00:00 Description: IIASA's first director Howard Raiffa, professor in managerial economics at Harvard University, mixes together an account of his life with examples of his research into how people make decisions....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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