Founded in 1972, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international research organization that conducts policy-oriented research into problems that are too large or too complex to be solved by a single country or academic discipline:
- problems like climate change that have a global reach and can be resolved only by international cooperative action, or
- problems of common concern to many countries that need to be addressed at the national level, such as energy security, population aging, and sustainable development.
IIASA is providing qualitative and quantitative interdisciplinary and systems analysis research for problems which are too complex or large to be addressed within one discipline or one country. Within IIASA the Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT) group is addressing topics related to positive shifts in coupled social-ecological systems towards sustainability.
