IHDP IGFA 2008

1. IHDP IGFA 2008 Falk Schmidt Academic Officer, IHDP Mexico City 2008

2. IHDP projects and cross-cutting themes IHDP’s core research projects are linked by four cross-cutting themes which crystallize keys aspects of human dimensions research Vulnerability / Resilience / Adaptation Governance / Institutions Social Learning / Knowledge Thresholds / Transitions GLP UGEC GECHS IDGEC LOICZ IT

3. New IHDP book series and other publications

4. New Science Initiatives Earth System Governance Project

5. Integrated Risk Governance Project (Draft) The mission of the IRG-Project is to improve the management of new risks that exceed current human coping capacities. We do so by focusing on the transitions in and out of the occurrence of those risks. Identified Research Questions: In what respects does a given risk exceed the capacity of given coping institutions and resources? What aspects of entry and exit transitions foster or hinder robustness with regard to the relevant risks? What are the key dynamic patterns of the entry and exit transitions? Who can do what to improve entry and exit transitions and thus risk management (governance)? Case studies: hurricanes, (ice) storms, heat waves, floods and droughts, also financial markets, technology and risks

6. Knowledge, Learning and Societal Change (DRAFT) Knowledgein its forms, origins, production, movement, and the access to it across cultures and geographical scales Mechanisms and dynamics of learningby individuals, communities, and institutions in the context of the challenges of global change Positive and negative determinants and mechanisms of changes in attitudes, thinking, and behavior in moving from knowledge to sustainable societal practices The relationship and interactions between policy-making and knowledge, learning, and changes in societal behavior in the process of moving toward sustainable futures

7. Other initiatives Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation (VRA) Special session at the Open Meeting 2009 Joint Initiatives with ESSP Partners GECHH and IHOPE Climate Change/IPCC IHDP-IPCC meeting in Delhi, ESSP-IPCC in Amsterdam

8. Capacity Building and Science-Policy Interactions • 6th IHDW, Delhi, on: adaptation, water management, health, industrial transformation, ecosystem services (80 participants) • Visiting Scholar Programme • On Science-Policy: It’s about “tools” (communication, advisory and review panels, workshops and policy forums, key partners “boundary organizations”); however, for IHDP it’s a subject to study as well! (e.g. within KLSC) • 2nd IHDP Science Policy Dialogue on Energy, Santa Barbara, 19-20 June 2008 • Bonn Dialogues on Global Environmental Change

9. Demographic Challenges (health focus!) • Challenges fromlimitations of resources/ecosystem services • Issues of social cohesion and equity • Adaptive institutions and governance • 1,200 participants, 800 submissions, 80 sessions, special sessions • Support for participants is still needed!

10. Funding situation Stabilized (at a lower level) Funding gap 250,000 EUR (current budget 850,000 EUR) “Innovative staffing” to cope with the situation in the short term On the basis of stable core support, greater involvement in project based funding Getting additional National Contributions

11. Thank You!schmidt@ihdp.unu.eduwww.ihdp.org