1. IHDP 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:  the anthropogenic drivers of global environmental change  the impact of such change on human welfare  human responses to global environmental change

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

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

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

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

6. IHDP 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 Institutional Dimensions of GEC: Research Foci

7. IHDP 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) Decoupling of economic growth from environmental degradation Transformation of systems: thresholds and transitions Industrial Transformation: Research Foci

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

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

10. IHDP 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 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 Research Foci “New” LOICZ

11. IHDP 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 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 Research Foci Urbanization

12. IHDP Themes  Causes and nature of Land System change  Consequences of Land System change  Integrating analysis and modelling for Land sustainability 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 Research Foci Global Land Project

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

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

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

16. IHDP Networking 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 Research Networks PERN – Population and Environment Research Networks MRI – Mountain Research Networks International meetings, workshops, conferences

17. IHDP 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