International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)

IHDP endeavours to provide international leadership in framing, developing and integrating social science research on global environmental change and to promote the application of the key findings of this research to help address environmental challenges.
Under the Strategic Plan, IHDP will continue to strengthen its role in facilitating cutting-edge research and ensuring both the expansion and reinforcement of global scientific capacity, carrying out it''s mission to:
foster, coordinate, and conduct social science research that helps to understand and address the challenges of global environmental change and improve societal responses
contribute to the interdisciplinary attempts, including both natural and social sciences, to understand the interactions of humans with the natural environment that cause global environmental change
strengthen the capacities of research and policy communities toward a shared understanding of the social causes and implications of global changes
facilitate dialogue between science and policy