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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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21-Globalization and Equity: Kicking Away the Ladder

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 and non-economists alike....

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[ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT ]

20-Methods and Tools for Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA)

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 MATISSE project, of whose Core Group she was a member....

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[ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:30:00 GMT ]

19-Sustainable Development: From Agenda Setting to Policy Actions

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....

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[ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT ]

18-Trends in Emerging Technologies

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 biotechnology and automobile industries....

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[ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT ]

17-Health and Global Development

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 Project, attempts to put global health trends, uncertainties, and challenges in perspective and determine whether the future will be worse than the present....

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[ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:15:00 GMT ]

16-Equitable Solutions to Greenhouse Warming

Professor Steven 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 in hand with your income. Only by following the money can emissions reductions be fairly made....

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[ Tue, 20 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT ]

15-The Three Fs: Food, Fiber, and Fuel

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 livestock, or supplying fiber....

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[ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:35:00 GMT ]

14-Managing Nuclear Proliferation: A Response

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 conference address to respond. Gaidar warns that the world underestimates the danger of a mistake leading to the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare since 1945....

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[ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT ]

13-Managing Nuclear Proliferation

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....

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[ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:45:00 GMT ]

12-The Changing World: Energy, Climate and Social Futures

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 Gas Initiative, talks about the changing world from the perspectives of energy and climate, derives some of the social implications, and presents some possible response strategies....

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[ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT ]

11-The World in 2050

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 thirty-fifth anniversary conference, "Global Development: Science and Policies for the Future." The conference looked at how to spread wealth and well-being to the billion or so people (15 percent of humanity) who see little or no benefit from glo...

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[ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:00:00 GMT ]

10-Providing Science Advice to Governments

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 and dialog. His lecture is followed by an extensive discussion -- a dialog -- with his audience of international young scientists....

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[ Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

09-Modeling Practice: Opportunities and Pitfalls

Speaking from his experience that modeling is more an art than a science, IIASA specialist Dr. Marek Makowski shares his ideas on good modeling practice, discussing some challenges, limitations, problems, and warnings of modeling. No modeling experience is necessary to appreciate this lecture....

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[ Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:00:00 GMT ]

08-Communicating Science

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 Chernoybl nuclear disaster of 1986, and tips for successful scientific communication....

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[ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:30:00 GMT ]

07-Pro-poor Globalization

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,” noting that it will remain an elusive concept unless steps are taken to make it a realistic perspective. A lively discussion follows....

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[ Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:00:00 GMT ]

06-Learning to Live in a Global Commons

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 natural systems, and how we can modify social norms to achieve global cooperation in managing our common future....

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[ Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:00:00 GMT ]

05-Human Capital, Age Structure & Economic Growth

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 attainment are a robust determinant of economic growth....

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[ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT ]

04-The Meaning of the 21st Century

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....

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[ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:00:00 GMT ]

03-Slanted Truths and Life's Evolution

Professor Lynn Margulis gives a fascinating accountof a revolution in evolution and her work in symbiogenesis....

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01-Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist

IIASA's first director, Howard Raiffa,and professor in managerial economics at Harvard Universitymixes together an account of his life with examples of his researchinto how people better decisions....

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[ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT ]

02-Back and Forth Between the Intimate and the Cosmic

Noted space scientists and educationist,professor Yash Pal presents his own personal excursionsbetween the cosmic and the intimateduring his passionate engagement with science, technology, educationand the people ofIndia.My Odeo Channel(odeo/551f8aa3a2abfe96)...

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[ Wed, 30 Aug 200609:00:00 GMT ]

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