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The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Barbara Göbel Executive Director IHDP Research in Response to the 3 rd Assessment report IPCC, Bonn, 21 June 2004. Generate scientific knowledge on coupled human-environment systems.
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The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Barbara Göbel Executive Director IHDP Research in Response to the 3rd Assessment report IPCC, Bonn, 21 June 2004
Generate scientific knowledge on coupled human-environment systems Achieve comprehensive understanding of global environmental change processes and their consequences for sustainable development Make scientific contributionsto 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
ICSU ISSC Scientific Committee Secretariat CAPACITY BUILDING NETWORKING POLICY MAKING INTERFACE JOINT PROJECTS CORE PROJECTS GECHS IDGEC IT LUCC Carbon (GCP) Food (GECAFS) Water (GWSP) Human Health
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)
NEW CORE RESEARCH PROJECTS Urbanisation Global Land Project(co-sponsored IHDP/IGBP) LOICZ Land and Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (co-sponsored IHDP/IGBP)
GECHS IDGEC IT LUCC IHDP Cross-Cutting Questions Vulnerability / Resilience / Adaptation Thresholds / Transitions Governance Social Learning / Knowledge Synthesis of Core Projects‘ Research
IHDP Mid-Term Review Process (2004-2005) • Synthesize contributions of IHDP research(workshops, publications): (1) Vulnerability / Resilience / Adapation (2) Tresholds / Transitions 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community (9-13 October 2005, Bonn)