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IHDP: Role and Objectives

Generate scientific knowledge on integrated human-environment systems. Achieve comprehensive understanding of global environmental change processes and their consequences for sustainable development. Make scientific contributions to explore:. IHDP: Role and Objectives.

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IHDP: Role and Objectives

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  1. Generate scientific knowledge on integrated human-environment systems Achieve comprehensive understanding of global environmental change processes and their consequences for sustainable development Make scientific contributions to explore: IHDP: Role and Objectives • the anthropogenic drivers of global environmental change • the impact of such change on human welfare • human responses to global environmental change

  2. POLICY MAKING FUNDING AGENCY national international international national SCIENCE POLICY MAKING FUNDING AGENCY CO-ORDINATION INTERFACE SCIENCE

  3. ICSU ISSC Scientific Committee Secretariat NETWORKING CAPACITY BUILDING POLICY MAKING INTERFACE CORE PROJECTS JOINT PROJECTS GECHS IDGEC IT LUCC LOICZ Urbanization GLP Carbon (GCP) Food (GECAFS) Water (GWSP) Human Health

  4. ESTABLISHED CORE RESEARCH PROJECTS Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Industrial Transformation (IT) Land Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC)

  5. GEC and Human Security: Research Foci Vulnerability and human security Resources, conflict & co-operation Modelling regions of environmental stress and human vulnerability Institutions & policy development in environmental security Flagship Activities • Mekong Delta Region • Russia • Southern Africa • Index of Human Insecurity

  6. Institutional Dimensions of GEC: Research Foci Roles of institutions in causing and responding to GEC Effectiveness of institutional innovations in responding to GEC Prospects of (re)designing institutions to confront environmental challenges • Flagship Activities • Carbon management • Fisheries • Forestry

  7. Industrial Transformation: Research Foci Decoupling of economic growth from environmentaldegradation Transformation of systems: thresholds and transitions • Flagship Activities • Energy and Material Flows • Food (Production and Consumption) • Water and Transport in Urban Contexts • Information and Communication • Governance and Transformation Processes (Future development trajectories; technological and institutional innovation)

  8. Land Use and Land Cover Change: Research Foci Land-Use Dynamics (Comparative Case Study Analysis) Land-Cover Dynamics (Empirical Observations & Diagnostic Models) Regional and Global Integrated Models

  9. NEW CORE RESEARCH PROJECTS LOICZ: Land and Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (co-sponsored IHDP/IGBP) Urbanization Global Land Project (co-sponsored IHDP/IGBP)

  10. Research Foci “New” LOICZ Dynamic interactions of people and environment in coastal zones Changes in components of the Earth system and the role of coastal zones in global cycles Effects of future changes in coastal zones on their use Scientific basis for integrated and sustainable coastal management • Themes • Vulnerability and hazards • Global change / land- / sea-use and coastal development • Anthropogenic influences on river basin / coastal zone interactions • Fate and transformation of materials in coastal and shelf waters • Systems understanding for sustainable management of land-ocean interactions

  11. Research Foci Urbanization Interactions between global environmental change and urban processes Rate, intensity and scale of urban and environmental change and mutual impacts Pathways of transformations of urban systems Challenges for sustainability of urban areas • Activities • Cross temporal and spatial approaches and regional comparative analyses • Emerging foci: carbon, water, health, vulnerability studies, peri-urban landscapes • Contribution to regional and global integrated models • Scientific basis for urban planning and managment

  12. Research Foci Global Land Project Measure, model, and understand the coupled human-environmental terrestrial system (“Land System”) and the socio-natural dynamics underlying land cover, land use and land use change Complex, simultaneous interactions between societal, natural and mixed processes at different spatio-temporal scales Combining the detailed regional with a global, comparative perspective • Themes • Causes and nature of Land System change • Consequences of Land System change • Integrating analysis and modelling for Land sustainability

  13. GECHS IDGEC IT LUCC IHDP Cross-Cutting Questions Vulnerability / Resilience / Adaptation Thresholds / Transitions Governance Social Learning / Knowledge Contributing to the synthesis of core projects‘ research

  14. Brasil, China, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sweden, UK USA, Venezuela, ICSU Paris, F ISSC Paris, F Scientific Committee Secretariat Bonn, DE SSC SSC SSC SSC SSC IPO GECHS Ottawa, CA IPO IDGEC Sta. Barbara, US IPO IT Amsterdam, NL IPO LUCC Louvain la Neuve, BE IPO LOICZ Den Burg, NL

  15. ICSU ISSC Scientific Committee Secretariat NETWORKING CAPACITY BUILDING POLICY MAKING INTERFACE JOINT PROJECTS CORE PROJECTS GECHS IDGEC IT LUCC LOICZ Urbanization GLP Carbon (GCP) Food (GECAFS) Water (GWSP) Human Health

  16. Development of Information Tools • Newsletter UPDATE: 1/04: Population; 2/04: Law and GEC; 3/04: Conflict, Co-operation and GEC; 4/04: Environmental Psychology and GEC; 1/05: Food Systems, Globalisation and GEC • Database on IHDP Publications and Bibliography • Website International meetings, workshops, conferences Research Networks PERN – Population and Environment Research Networks MRI – Mountain Research Networks Networking

  17. Networking • Important role of the Open Meetings of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community • Co-organizers: IHDP, CIESIN, IIASA, IGES, UNU, University of Bonn; Sponsorship of UNESCO 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Bonn (Germany), 9-13 October 2005

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