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

Outreach

New IHDP Website: http://www.ihdp.org