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The International Human Dimensions Programme on
Global Environmental Change
IHDP
http://www.ihdp.org
The ways in which individuals and societies
contribute to local, regional and global environmental change
are influenced by Global Environmental Change mitigate and adapt to Global Environmental Change
Human Dimensions
The IHDP sponsors four major international projects:
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC, together with IGBP)
Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC)
Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS)
Industrial Transformation (IT)
IHDP Science Projects
RESEARCH FOCI
Land-Use Dynamics (Comparative Case Study Analysis)
Land-Cover Dynamics (Empirical Observations and Diagnostic Models)
Regional and Global Integrated Models
Land Use & Land Cover Change (LUCC)
http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be
What drives tropical deforestation? A meta-analysis of proximate causes and underlying sources of Deforestation based on sub-national scale case study evidence
An Example of LUCC Research
RESEARCH FOCI
The Roles of Institutions in Causing and Responding to GEC
The Effectiveness of Institutional Innovations in Responding to GEC
The Prospects of (Re)designing Institutions to Confront Environmental Challenges
Institutional Dimensions of GEC (IDGEC)
FLAGSHIP ACTIVITIES
carbon management
fisheries
forestry
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~idgec
An Example of IDGEC Research
The Carbon Management Research Activity explores the implications of different institutional contexts, rules, and mechanisms in the international carbon management regime. Emissions trading mechanisms and compliance issues are being examined.
RESEARCH FOCI
Conceptual & Theoretical Issues
Environmental Change, Resource Use & Human Security
Population, Environment & Security
Modelling Regions of Environmental Stress and Human Vulnerability
Institutions & Policy Development in Environmental Security
GEC & Human Security (GECHS)
“SIGNATURE STUDIES”
Natural resources and civil wars Environment and Human Security in Russia Vulnerability
http://www.gechs.org
An example of GECHS research
The South African Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI) will develop an integrated framework for understanding the factors that shape vulnerability within southern Africa including dynamics across spatial and temporal scales and the impacts of multiple stressors. It will seek to integrate its work with policy formulation.
RESEARCH FOCI
Energy and Material Flows
Food (Production and Consumption)
Cities and Industrial Transformation (Focus on Water and Transport in Urban context)
Information and Communication
Governance and Transformation Processes
Industrial Transformation (IT)
http://www.vu.nl/ivm/research/ihdp-it/
An Example of IT Research
The project on Carbon Flows between Eastern and Western Europe –
Identifies mutually beneficial policies for Eastern and Western Europe and examines the effects of policy measures on the flows of carbonand related investments.
Urbanisation
IHDP Newsletter 03/02 Theme: Urbanisation
Scoping activity ongoing for an integrative project focusing on the human dimensions of urbanisation
Monitoring
IHDP Newsletter 02/02 Theme: Monitoring
Development of a Sustainability Geoscope - A monitoring and documentation centre for the interlinkages between natural and human dimensions of the Earth System
www.Sustainability-GeoScope.net
Demand and Supply
The demand for research, capacity building and network strengthening for the human dimensions of global environmental change is increasing. IHDP is responding to the research needs identified in IPCC TAR
BUT
The financial support for human dimensions research, co-ordination, and capacity building are decreasing as quickly as the demand increases!
Publications & Outreach
IHDP Annual Report 2001
2002 IHDP Update Newsletters
http://www.ihdp.org