International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IIASA

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Mission

IIASA is a non-governmental research organization located in Austria. The institute conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change. Through research, they generate methods and tools useful to both decision makers and the scientific community.

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13 January 2017

From multi-risk assessment to multi-risk governance: Recommendations for future directions

This paper examines how to maximise the benefits arising from, and overcome the barriers to, the implementation of a multihazard and multi-risk assessment approach within current risk management regimes. Working at two test sites, o

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5 September 2016

Accounting for heterogeneity: A qualitative assesment of national climate disaster management policies in Africa

This paper examines the heterogeneity within Africa’s institutional arrangements for climate-related disaster risk management and introduces a classification that ranks each country as one of three disaster management policy types: the ‘Unpre

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7 February 2016

Modeling the indirect and fiscal risks from natural disasters for informing options for enhancing resilience and building back better

This paper presents the CATSIM methodology, which combines estimates of the direct, monetary risk a country is exposed to with an evaluation of sovereign fiscal resilience.