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February 2009

IHDP Open Meeting 2009: Social Challenges of Global Change

Date: 26-30 April 2009
Location: Bonn, Germany
Contact: Gabriela Litre - IHDP Secretariat, Bonn.
Email: litreihdp.unu.edu

IHDP Open Meeting website: http://www.openmeeting2009.org/

A truly international and interdisciplinary group of over 1000 scientists, journalists, government officials, decision-makers as well as leading representatives from the private sector, key institutes, international organisations and NGOs are expected to attend the 7th Open Meeting at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany, on 26-30 April 2009.

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) is an international, interdisciplinary science programme, dedicated to promoting, catalysing and coordinating research, capacity-development and networking on the human dimensions of global environmental change. It takes a social science perspective on global change and works on the interface between science and practice. IHDP is a joint programme of the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the United Nations University (UNU).

Since 1995, the Open Meetings of the human dimensions research community have grown into the world's largest international science conference series dealing with the social aspects of global environmental change.
They help to determine the state-of-the-art of human dimensions research, outlining new research agendas, theoretical frameworks and methodologies. Identifying cutting-edge research themes within the sciencepractice nexus, the Open Meeting also serves to promote the enhanced policy relevance of social science on global change.

The theme of the 7th IHDP Open Meeting, "Social Challenges of Global Change," responds to important changes in the perspective of the scientific community on the challenges that we are currently facing. It also outlines the new research agenda for IHDP's second decade, as this Open Meeting will be both the first under the guidance of the IHDP Strategic Plan 2007-2015 and a major contribution to this plan's implementation. The IHDP Open Meeting 2009 programme and list of keynote speakers is available at http://www.openmeeting2009.org/
For more information about the Open Meeting 2009, please contact IHDP's Communications Manager, Mrs Gabriela Litre, at litreihdp.unu.edu

ABOUT IHDP

IHDP was founded by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) of UNESCO in 1996, and has been a key programme of the United Nations University (UNU) since January 2007. Financed by a broad range of agencies from different countries, IHDP's research programme is guided by an international Scientific Committee made up of reputable scientists from various disciplinary and regional backgrounds.
IHDP fosters high-quality research. The dynamics of climate change, land-use and land-cover change, interactions between institutions and the global environment, human security, sustainable production and consumption systems as well as food and water issues, urbanization and the global carbon cycle are investigated in the context of global environmental change.

For more information about the programme, see http://www.ihdp.org/

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