Reports and contributions concerning more than one country.#
Many of contributions below are on topics concenring many countries. Austria-Forum is particularly grateful to IIASA by providing some of them.IIASA Options Magazine#
- Issues 2018 - 2023
- Winter 2023: Pursuing the urban utopia
- Summer 2023: Into the great wide open
- Winter 2022: Buidling Trust in Science for sustainable Futer
- Summer 2022: Reducing footprints - building resilience
- Winter 2021: People at the heart of climate change
- Summer 2021: Natural Realm
- Winter 2020/21: COVID-19: A shock to the global system
- Summer 2020: The Gender Dimension of sustainable development
- Winter 2019/20: Unraveling the compleities of digital future
- Summer 2019: Asystems look at hunger
- Winter 2018/19: Nuturing cooperation, preservation and prosperity in the Arctic
- Summer 2018: In Asia facing a coming water crisis?
Other contributions from IIASA#
- Strategies for climate and food security
- 45 years of risk research
- Switching from wood to gas cooking is not a climate problem
Exotic places#
This should give a short taste of a major presentation by Gerhard Huber Feb. 2020 on "Bizzare Welten"Other technical contributions#
- Does the Web make us stupid?
- Telecommunication
- Stability of Digitzed Information
- Waves at depth
- Generation Starship
- Teaching Computer Science
- Buchroithner M. F. et al.: Satellite-Based Technologies for Mountain Rescue Operations
- Buchroithner M. F. et al.: 3D Surveying and Visualization of the biggest Ice Cave on Earth (2009)
- Buchroithner, M. F.: Technologies for Mountain Rescue Operations
- Geodetic grids - new findings about the origin of the UTM Grid (History of Cartography)
- Consequences of Urban Sprawl
- UNESCO - ABC on Copyright
General stories#
- The most universal dish (Did spaghetti come from Italy to China, or vice-versa?)
- Cold (What happens when it really gets cold- a personal report)
- Lakes and Bays (Story, pictures and interactive panoramas)
Cross-border aspects in Geography#
- A book on travel in Asia with 200 pictures and interesting stories
- Stories, videos and more
Nobel Prize Winners#
Nobel Prizes without affiliation to a country.Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
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National Dialogue Quartet | Peace | 2015 | "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011" |
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) | Peace | 2017 | "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons" |