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14 options + summer 2015 www.iiasa.ac.at IIASA’s interdisciplinary research  environment helps scientists  address complex problems and  paves the path to effective policies Many of the major challenges facing the world today—climate change, widespread poverty, food  shortages—simply can’t be solved by scientists working in one discipline alone. To address such issues requires teams of experts from different disciplines—natural scientists, social  scientists, economists—brainstorming and cooperating to attain workable  solutions and potential policies. Enter interdisciplinary research. EurekaGetting to