Founded in 1972, The International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, near Vienna, provides
objective, useable information on economic, environmental and social
issues for the benefit of the public, scientists, and national and
international organizations. Because of its non-governmental status,
IIASA provides non-political and unbiased perspectives on a wide range
of issues. Research teams composed of scientists and academics from
around the world study such fields as emissions, transformation, and
transport of toxic materials and pollutants, changes in water resource
availability and quality; degradation and remediation of biological
resources and the causes and effects of land use and development. In
addition, IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers
graduates and post-doctoral students an opportunity to gain experience
and develop contacts in the environmental and scientific fields. Results
from IIASA’s many research projects are published in books, academic
journals and special reports on a continual basis. In addition, the
organization sponsors some 50 conferences, workshops and seminars both
in Austria and abroad.
IIASA receives its support from
scientific national member organizations in Austria, Bulgaria, China,
the Czech and Slovak Republics, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan,
Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine,
and the USA. UNVIE works with IIASA and the U.S. Representative to
IIASA, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, on IIASA issues.
