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For a trial period,IIASA is offering podcastsso that you can listen to the lecturesof leading scientists taking place at the Institute.The lectures are part of a program for 50 internationalyoung scientists who have been selected to research at IIASAduring the summer 2006. Primary Format : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Austria Country : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of IIASA Podcasts Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of IIASA Podcasts Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of IIASA Podcasts Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 19-Sustainable Development: From Agenda Setting to Policy Actions Dr. Mahendra Shah, Dean of IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Program, discusses the wealth of diversity in nature and the human world. He argues that the realization of the potential of this diversity is the key to promoting world-wide development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18-Trends in Emerging Technologies Professor Kenneth Oye of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyzes the trends in emerging technologies and their implications for energy security, the environment, and development. His lecture includes case studies from both the biotechnology and automobile industries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17-Health and Global Development With trillions of dollars being spent on global health to lengthen lives, alleviate pain, and reduce misery, we are still confronted with apparent signs of a worsening situation. Dr. Landis MacKellar, Leader of IIASA's Health and Global Change Project, attempts to put global health trends, uncertainties, and challenges in perspective and determine whether the future will be worse than the present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16-Equitable Solutions to Greenhouse Warming Professor Steven Pacala, Director of Princeton Environmental Institute, analyzes fairness and climate mitigation and discovers the responsibility for emissions reductions does not travel with national identity or with DNA. Rather emissions go hand in hand with your income. Only by following the money can emissions reductions be fairly made. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15-The Three Fs: Food, Fiber, and Fuel In a cartographic strip-tease, IIASA Deputy Director Sten Nilsson points out how most of the land theoretically available for growing biofuels, as a substitute for fossil fuels, is either protected or already in use for growing crops, raising livestock, or supplying fiber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14-Managing Nuclear Proliferation: A Response After hearing Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling present his rather optimistic interpretation of the recent nuclear past and a nuclear future, Yegor Gaidar -- Director, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Russia -- scraps his own prepared conference address to respond. Gaidar warns that the world underestimates the danger of a mistake leading to the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare since 1945. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13-Managing Nuclear Proliferation Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling argues how successful the world has been at maintaining nuclear non-proliferation, and how fortunate it is that no nuclear weapon has been exploded in warfare since 1945. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12-The Changing World: Energy, Climate and Social Futures In his presentation at IIASA's thirty-fifth anniversary conference, Global Development: Science and Policies for the Future, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Leader of IIASA's Energy and Transitions to New Technologies Programs and Co-Leader of its Greenhouse Gas Initiative, talks about the changing world from the perspectives of energy and climate, derives some of the social implications, and presents some possible response strategies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11-The World in 2050 World class economist and expert on global development, Jeffrey Sachs looks towards the world in 2050. He examines the fundamental drivers that are changing our world and the key challenges we face. Jeffrey Sachs was a keynote speaker at IIASA's thirty-fifth anniversary conference, "Global Development: Science and Policies for the Future." The conference looked at how to spread wealth and well-being to the billion or so people (15 percent of humanity) who see little or no benefit fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10-Providing Science Advice to Governments Drawing on his experience in three U.S. science advisory positions and his belief that a political decision informed by science is a better decision than one which ignores it, Dr. Norman Neureiter underscores the importance of scientific cooperation and dialog. His lecture is followed by an extensive discussion -- a dialog -- with his audience of international young scientists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09-Modeling Practice: Opportunities and Pitfalls Speaking from his experience that modeling is more an art than a science, IIASA specialist Dr. Marek Makowski shares his ideas on good modeling practice, discussing some challenges, limitations, problems, and warnings of modeling. No modeling experience is necessary to appreciate this lecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08-Communicating Science Media relations expert David Kinley presents a three-part lecture comprising an overview of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a real example of communicating science using three reports into the Chernoybl nuclear disaster of 1986, and tips for successful scientific communication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 07-Pro-poor Globalization In this provocative lecture, Professor Machiko Nissanke shares her thoughts and research results on how the process of globalization affects different aspects of poverty in the developing world. She presents a framework for “pro-poor globalization,” noting that it will remain an elusive concept unless steps are taken to make it a realistic perspective. A lively discussion follows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06-Learning to Live in a Global Commons Chair of IIASA’s Council and Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, Simon Levin examines the conditions under which cooperative behavior emerges in complex natural ecosystems. He asks what lessons can be learned from our examination of natural systems, and how we can modify social norms to achieve global cooperation in managing our common future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 05-Human Capital, Age Structure & Economic Growth IIASA demographers present a new dataset of educational attainment by age and sex for 120 countries for the period 1970-2000. By exploiting the demographic dimension of the education data, the researchers show aggregate changes in educational attainment are a robust determinant of economic growth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 04-The Meaning of the 21st Century The “guru of the information age,” Dr James Martin highlights some of the extraordinary changes that will mark the twenty-first century, making our grandchildren’s world almost incomprehensible from current perspectives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 03-Slanted Truths and Life's Evolution Professor Lynn Margulis gives a fascinating accountof a revolution in evolution and her work in symbiogenesis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 01-Analytical Roots of a Decision Scientist IIASA's first director, Howard Raiffa,and professor in managerial economics at Harvard Universitymixes together an account of his life with examples of his researchinto how people better decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 02-Back and Forth Between the Intimate and the Cosmic Noted space scientists and educationist,professor Yash Pal presents his own personal excursionsbetween the cosmic and the intimateduring his passionate engagement with science, technology, educationand the people ofIndia.My Odeo Channel(odeo/551f8aa3a2abfe96) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website