Welcome to the IIASA World Wide Web server. The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis is an international research institute established in 1972 by the USA and the Soviet Union as a center for objective, joint East-West study of problems common to modern societies. East-West collaboration remains an important part of IIASA's work, but with the end of the Cold War the emphasis has shifted to the scientific study of global change, in particular the policy aspects of environmental, economic, and technological processes of change. Current studies include analyses of transboundary air pollution in Europe and Southeast Asia, the sustainable development of Siberia's forest resources, global land use, global energy systems and the environment, economic transitions in formerly socialist countries, chemical flows within river basins, links between population and the environment, the verification and enforcement of international environmental treaties, and advanced methods for systems analysis. Projects typically comprise teams of scientists from various disciplines and countries who work together for three to five years, supported by an international network of collaborators. It is based in an 18th century Habsburg palace located in the town of Laxenburg near Vienna. IIASA is nongovernmental; it is governed by scientific member organizations in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, Ukraine and the USA.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Telephone: 43 2236 807 0 Telefax: 43 2236 71313 Email: postmaster@iiasa.ac.at
