Scientific Portfolio

Our current scientific projects deal with the most pressing topics concerning the future of humankind. Assessing what societies need for their physical well-being, and what they understand as their needs based on their beliefs and values of what constitute a well-lived life. IHDP develops projects that address the substantive challenges to fulfilling these needs.

Projects are conceptualized and supported by IHDP, sometimes in partnership with our Earth System Science Partners, to work on new cutting-edge research areas, promote international cooperation, and build linkages between policy-makers and researchers.


Core Project \| ESG Earth System Governance Project Governance for sustainability: navigating the anthropocene \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GCP Global Carbon Project A framework for better understanding and management of the global carbon cycle \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GECAFS Global Environmental Change and Food Systems Project Improving food security in the face of global environmental change \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GECHH Global Environmental Change and Human Health Project Towards global human health and well-being in a changing environment \|Read more


Core Project \| GLP Global Land Project Measuring, modelling and understanding the coupled human-environment land system \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GWSP Global Water Systems Project Studying humans' impact on the global water cycle and options for sustainable water management \|Read more	Core Project \| IHOPE Integrated History of People on Earth Studying historical human interactions with the Earth toward a sustainable future \|Read more	Core Project \| IRG-Project Integrated Risk Governance Project Learning to deal with risks that exceed current coping capacities \|Read more

Core Project \| IHDP-IT Industrial Transformation Project Identifying alternative pathways toward sustainability \|Read more	Core Project \| LOICZ Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zones Project Understanding and predicting change in the world's coastal zones \|Read more	Core Project \| UGEC Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project Guiding research on the interaction and feedbacks between urbanization and global change \|Read more

Alliance

Assessments		UN Photo/John Isaac
	Assessment \| JSSA Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment Human Well-Being and Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes of Japan \| Read more	Assessment Inclusive Wealth Report Expanding the definition of wealth to develop a new measurement based on natural, produced, and human capital. \|Read more	IPBES


Core Project \| ESG Earth System Governance Project Governance for sustainability: navigating the anthropocene \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GCP Global Carbon Project A framework for better understanding and management of the global carbon cycle \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GECAFS Global Environmental Change and Food Systems Project Improving food security in the face of global environmental change \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GECHH Global Environmental Change and Human Health Project Towards global human health and well-being in a changing environment \|Read more


Core Project \| GLP Global Land Project Measuring, modelling and understanding the coupled human-environment land system \|Read more	ESSP Joint Project \| GWSP Global Water Systems Project Studying humans' impact on the global water cycle and options for sustainable water management \|Read more	Core Project \| IHOPE Integrated History of People on Earth Studying historical human interactions with the Earth toward a sustainable future \|Read more	Core Project \| IRG-Project Integrated Risk Governance Project Learning to deal with risks that exceed current coping capacities \|Read more

Core Project \| IHDP-IT Industrial Transformation Project Identifying alternative pathways toward sustainability \|Read more	Core Project \| LOICZ Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zones Project Understanding and predicting change in the world's coastal zones \|Read more	Core Project \| UGEC Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project Guiding research on the interaction and feedbacks between urbanization and global change \|Read more

Alliance

Assessments		UN Photo/John Isaac
	Assessment \| JSSA Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment Human Well-Being and Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes of Japan \| Read more	Assessment Inclusive Wealth Report Expanding the definition of wealth to develop a new measurement based on natural, produced, and human capital. \|Read more	IPBES

Alliance

Assessments