With the new Future Earth initiative taking shape, IHDP will be the first of the four global environmental change programmes to close its doors on June 30th, 2014, after 24 years of operation. All of IHDP’s core and joint science projects will become part of Future Earth and have already begun the transitioning process. The new ten-year international research initiative for global environmental change will build on decades of social sciences research excellence of IHDP.
In order to make IHDP knowledge available for future generations, the IHDP team at the Secretariat has been developing a comprehensive database that will be publicly accessible. It will contain activities, projects, publications and other relevant information from the programme’s lifetime and thus offer a valuable platform for global environmental change knowledge from the past two and a half decades.
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, IHDP Executive Director, says that serving IHDP has been exciting, challenging but at times frustrating. Exciting and challenging because of the complexity of humans and our endeavours towards understanding why and how they behave and react to changes; frustrating because of the lack of time and resources available to mobilize the core social science disciplines not present in a critical mass within the existing networks addressing the problems of global environmental change and sustainability. However, the Executive Director is confident that the momentum IHDP has stimulated in the global effort to better understand and influence the human dimensions of global environmental change in the past 24 years will lay the foundation for the work that lies ahead for the social sciences community.
Source: IHDP news from 30.04.2014
With the new Future Earth initiative taking shape, IHDP will be the first of the four global environmental change programmes to close its doors on June 30th, 2014, after 24 years of operation. All of IHDP’s core and joint science projects will become part of Future Earth and have already begun the transitioning process. The new ten-year international research initiative for global environmental change will build on decades of social sciences research excellence of IHDP.
In order to make IHDP knowledge available for future generations, the IHDP team at the Secretariat has been developing a comprehensive database that will be publicly accessible. It will contain activities, projects, publications and other relevant information from the programme’s lifetime and thus offer a valuable platform for global environmental change knowledge from the past two and a half decades.
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, IHDP Executive Director, says that serving IHDP has been exciting, challenging but at times frustrating. Exciting and challenging because of the complexity of humans and our endeavours towards understanding why and how they behave and react to changes; frustrating because of the lack of time and resources available to mobilize the core social science disciplines not present in a critical mass within the existing networks addressing the problems of global environmental change and sustainability. However, the Executive Director is confident that the momentum IHDP has stimulated in the global effort to better understand and influence the human dimensions of global environmental change in the past 24 years will lay the foundation for the work that lies ahead for the social sciences community.
Source: IHDP news from 30.04.2014