Core Projects

Our core projects are conceptualized and supported by IHDP, sometimes in partnership with various other programmes to identify and generate new cutting-edge research activities and priorities; promote international cooperation; and build linkages between policy makers and researchers.

ESG

Earth System Governance Project

ESG Key Image - Creative Commons Flickr/Stacie Kefuoe

Governance for sustainability: navigating the Anthropocene |Read more

GLP

Global Land Project

GLP Key Image - Copyright UN Photo/Martine Perret

Measuring, modelling and understanding the coupled human-environment land system |Read more

IHOPE

Integrated History and Future of People on Earth Project

IHOPE key image - Creative Commons Flickr/Arian Zwegers

Studying historical human interactions with the earth toward a sustainable future |Read more

IRG

Integrated Risk Governance Project

IRG Key Image - Copyright UN Photo/Sophia Paris

Learning to deal with risks that exceed current coping capacities  |Read more

LOICZ

Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Project

LOICZ key image - UN Photo/Mark Garten

Working to support sustainability and adaptation to global change in the coastal zone |Read more

UGEC

Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project

UGEC Key Image - Creative Commons Flickr/Thewamphyri

Researching the interaction between urbanization and global change |Read more