OJERI-IIASA Symposium 2025 Closes: Key Wildfire Talks
The OJEong Resilience Institute at Korea University (OJERI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) successfully held the OJERI-IIASA Symposium 2025 on April 28-29 at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria. With the theme “Forest Fire and Water-Land Management under the Carbon (Emission) Cycle”, the symposium aimed to continue the strong partnership between IIASA and OJERI@KU in advancing cross-disciplinary research for sustainable forest and land-water management.
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Figure 1. Head of the IIASA and OJERI-KU delegations. From the left: Prof. Seongwoo Jeon, Dr. Florian Kraxner, Prof. Woo-Kyun Lee, Emeritus Research Scholar Dr. Anatoly Shvidenko, And Dr. Andrey Krasovskiy
The event was attended by more than 40 researchers, policymakers, and students from international institutions including representatives from Korea University, IIASA, Pyeongtaek University, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center (APCC), the National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS), the Korea Forest Service (KFS), Jeonju University, the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (BOKU),the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan, and the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN) in Brazil to exchange knowledge and strategies for managing the growing challenges of wildfires, land ecosystem, and carbon emissions.
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