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The earth system science partnership: societal needs and responsive science

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1IHDP Update  1.2008
March 2008  ·  Issue 1
Magazine of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
ISSN 1727-155X
The IHDP Strategic 
Plan 2007-2015
The road to...
www.ihdp.org
3IHDP Update  1.2008
Introduction
4  The IHDP Strategic Plan at Work
Oran R. Young
Guest Editorial
9  The Earth System Science Partnership: Societal 
Needs and Responsive Science
Rik Leemans
IHDP Strategic Plan Implementation
10 The Road Ahead: an Introductory Note 
 from the Secretariat 
Ellen Pfeiffer
Special Feature from the Secretariat
Implementing the Strategic Plan from within the 
Secretariat
Ellen Pfeiffer
14 IHDP Strategic Plan, a Contribution for Growing and 
Sustaining African Human Capital
Lidia Brito and João Noronha
 
Special Feature from the Secretariat 
IHDP and Capacity Development
 Andreas Rechkemmer
18 A New Charge: Engaging at the Science-Practice 
 Interface
 Susanne C. Moser
Special Feature from the Secretariat
 Science-Policy Interaction
 Gabriela Litre and Sarah Mekjian
New Initiatives
23 Earth System Governance, Report on a New 
 IHDP Initiative
 Frank Biermann
 Special Feature from the Secretariat
 IHDP Secretariat, Facilitating Cutting-Edge Research 
Falk Schmidt
27 Core Science Initiative on Integrated Risk Governance
 Carlo Jaeger and Peijun Shi
29 A New Initiative on Vulnerability, Resilience and 
 Adaptation
 Sander E. van der Leeuw
32 Contact Addresses
Table of Contents
IHDP Update 1.2008
OM’08
IHDP Open Meeting 2008
7th International Science Conference on the
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
15th - 19th  2008, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Co-organizer and local host: TERI (e Energy and Resources Institute)
While still reaching out to the large and diverse international human dimensions community, it is expected that this 
Open Meeting will be highly applicable to the South Asian region generally and India in particular. Together with 
the local host and co-organizer, a unique developing-country institution with a main focus on energy, environment 
and sustainable development on a global perception and a local focus, the IHDP will follow up on outcomes from 
the last Open Meeting in Bonn in 2005, which tried to outline the need for a more specific and selective scientific 
approach. 
         With the theme of the 7th Open Meeting, “Social Challenges of Global Change,” IHDP wants to indicate the 
need to incorporate not only the general discussion about climate change, but also many other environmental 
changes which happen in our society: resource shortages, the destruction of ecosystem services, new threats to 
human health.  At the first planning meeting of the ISPC, which took place in Bonn at the end of June this year, the 
planning committee agreed on four core questions, which should cover the widespread aspects of Social Challenges 
of Global Change:
         1. How do we deal with demographic challenges? 
         2. How do we deal with limitations of resources and ecosystem services?
         3. How do we maintain social cohesion while increasing (global) equity? 
         4. How do we adapt institutions to address global change?
Each of these questions will for the crux at one of the days of the 7th OM.
Contributions to this conference will need to relate to one of the questions mentioned above and the numerous 
cross-cutting issues and topics that intersect them, as laid out in the 7th Open Meeting concept note.
Call for Contributions is open!
For more information, visit www.ihdp.org or www.openmeeting2008.org
or contact the secretariat at, openmeeting@ihdp.unu.edu
www.openmeeting2008.org
Social Challenges of Global Change
p. 14
p. 23
p. 27
p. 29
9IHDP Update  1.2008
The Earth System Science Partnership (www.essp.org) in-
tegrates the insights from the international global environ-
mental change research programmes – IHDP, DIVERSITAS, 
IGBP, and WCRP. Although the past leadership of the chairs 
and directors was successful, it was decided that a more for-
mal governance structure was needed. The resulting Scien-
tific Committee, which I’m pleased to chair, met in October 
to discuss the ongoing projects on Carbon, Water, Food, and 
Health, and other activities, including START and the Mon-
soon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS). The Health 
Project’s science plan was also adopted by the IHDP and the 
Project is now co-sponsored by IHDP and its partner pro-
grammes, DIVERSITAS, IGBP, and WCRP. A preliminary 
ESSP vision emerged at this meeting: All new initiatives 
should involve a strong interaction with the end-users in so-
ciety. 
 The ESSP-projects are already doing this actively. The 
Global Carbon Project, for example, just published an update 
on trends in accelerating CO2 emissions, increasing carbon 
intensity (amount of C needed per unit GDP), and the de-
creasing strengths of natural sinks over the last few years. 
Their conclusions have consequences for climate policies. If 
these trends continue, mitigation efforts must be stepped up 
to limit climate change. These GCP results provide a timely 
update to IPCC’s fourth assessment report, which was pub-
lished last spring. 
 All other ESSP projects and the whole ESSP want to 
strengthen the links with international conventions, assess-
ments, and research organizations. ESSP will strengthen 
the application of scientific understanding from all global 
environmental change programmes in such policy and as-
sessment processes. ESSP can, through START, also help 
building capacity in developing countries to contribute to re-
gional needs and assessments. ESSP will also develop a more 
coordinated communications platform of the latest scientific 
environmental change insights 
 I am really pleased that several of those elements are 
also stressed in IHDP’s strategic plan. This means that many 
fruitful interactions and synergies between IHDP and ESSP 
will continue to develop and emerge in the coming years. To-
gether, we will not only further develop cutting edge science, 
but also digest and apply it for society.
Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans; Chair SC-ESSP. Contact: Environmental Sys-
tems Analysis Group, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen Univer-
sity & Research, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen. Tel: +31 317 484919;
 rik.leemans@wur.nl
Guest Editorial
The Earth System 
Science Partnership: 
Societal Needs and 
Responsive Science
Rik Leemans
Guest Editorial • ESSP: Societal Needs and Responsive Science
32 IHDP Update  1.2008
Contact Addresses
IHDP Secretariat
IHDP Secretariat
Andreas Rechkemmer
Executive Director
Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10
53113 Bonn, Germany
ph.  +49 228 815 0600
fax +49 228 815 0620
secretariat@ihdp.unu.edu
_____________________________________
IHDP Core Projects
GECHS
Global Environmental Change 
and Human Security
c/o Linda Sygna,
Executive Officer
GECHS International Project Office 
Department of Sociology and Hu-
man Geography, University of Oslo, 
Norway
info@gechs.org
www.gechs.org
GLP
Global Land Project
c/o Tobias Langanke,
Executive Officer
Institute of Geography, University of 
Copenhagen, Denmark
TLa@geogr.ku.dk
www.globallandproject.org
IT
Industrial Transformation
c/o Anna J. Wieczorek,
Executive Officer
IT International Project Office, Insti-
tute for Environmental Studies (IVM), 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), 
The Netherlands
anna.wieczorek@ivm.vu.nl
www.ihdp-it.org
LOICZ
Land Ocean Interaction in the 
Coastal Zone
c/o Hartwig Kremer,
Executive Officer
Institute for Coastal Research GKSS, 
Geesthacht, Germany
loicz.ipo@loicz.org
www.loicz.org
UGEC
Urbanization and Global 
Environmental Change
c/o Michail Fragkias,
Executive Officer
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 
USA
fragkias@asu.edu
www.ugec.org
_____________________________________
Joint ESSP Projects
GECAFS
Global Environmental Change 
and Food Systems
c/o John Ingram,
Executive Officer
GECAFS International Project Office, 
Envrionmental Change Institute, 
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
john.ingram@eci.ox.ac.uk
GCP
Global Carbon Project
c/o Pep Canadell,
Executive Officer
GCP International Project Office, 
CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
pep.canadell@csiro.au
www.globalcarbonproject.org
GWSP
Global Water Systems Project
c/o Lydia Dümenil Gates, 
Executive Officer
International Project Office GWSP, 
Center for Development Research, 
University of Bonn, Germany
lydia.dumenilgates@gwsp.org
_____________________________________
IHDP Scientific Committee 
(SC)
Chair
Oran R. Young
Bren School of Environmental Science 
and Management, University of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara, USA
young@bren.ucsb.edu
Treasurer
Sander van der Leeuw
Department of Anthropology, Arizona 
State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
venderle@asu.edu
Vice Chairs
Roberto Guimarães
Fundacao Getullio Vargas, Rio de 
Janiero, Brazil
roberto.guimaraes@fgv.br
Geoffrey Dabelko
Environmental Change and Security 
Program (ECSP), Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars, 
Washington, DC, USA
geoff.dabelko@wilsoncenter.org
Hebe Vessuri
Departmnet of Science Studies, 
Instituto Venezolano de Investiciones 
Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
hvessuri@ivic.ve
_____________________________________
Katrina Brown
School of Development Studie, Uni-
versity of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
k.brown@uea.ac.uk
Carl Folke
Centre for Research on Natural 
Resources and Environment, CNMm 
Stockholm University, Stockholm, 
Sweden
calle@system.ecology.su.se
Gernot Klepper
Kiel Institute of World Economics, 
Kiel, Germany
gklepper@ifw-kiel.de
Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska
Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Acad-
emy of Sciences, Bratislava, 
Slovak Republic
tatiana@progeko.savba.sk
Leena Srivastava
Execuive Director, The Energy and 
Resources Institute, New Dehli, India
leena@teri.res.in
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Dean, Bren School of Environmental 
Science and Management, University 
of California at Santa Barbara, USA
ernst@bren.ucsb.edu
_____________________________________
Ex Officio Members IHDP 
Scientific Committee
ICSU
Thomas Rosswall
Executive Director ICSU
Paris, France
secretariat@icsu.org
ISSC
Heide Hackmann
Secretary General ISSC
Paris, France
issc@unesco.org
UNU
Konrad Osterwalder
Rector UNU
rector@hq.unu.edu
ESSP
Rik Leemans
Chair, ESSP SC
Wageningen University,
Wageningen, The Netherlands
rik.leemans@wur.nl
Diversitas
Michel Loreau
École Normale Superieure
Labortoire d’Écologie
Paris, France
michel.loreau@mgil.ca
IGBP
Carlos Nobre
Centro fr Previsao de Tempo e 
Estudos Climaticos - CPTEC INPE 
- Intituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
Espaciais, Brazil
www.igbp.kva.se
WCRP
John Church
Antarctic CRC and CSIRO Marine 
Research Hobart, Tas, Australia
john.church@csiro.au
IHDP
Andreas Rechkemmer
Executive Director, IHDP
United Nations Campus, Bonn, 
Germany
secretariat@ihdp.unu.edu
GECHS
Karen O’Brien
Institute for Sociology and Human 
Geography, Universit of Oslo, Norway
info@gechs.org
GLP
Anette Reenberg
Institute of Geography, University of 
Copenhagen, Denmark
ar@geogr.ku.dk
IT
Frans Berkhout
Director, Institute for Environmentat 
Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
frans.berkhout@ivm.vu.nl
LOICZ
Josef Pacyna
Center for Ecological Economics, 
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, 
Kjeller, Norway
jp@nilu.no
UGEC
Roberto Sanchez
University of California Riverside, 
Riverside, CA, USA
roberto.sanchez-rodriguez@ucr.edu


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