In 2007 the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam and the Environmental Policy Research Centre at Freie Universität Berlin initiated a series of four Marie Curie Summer Schools on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (HDGEC). The summer schools are held back-to-back with the annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (‘European IHDP Conferences’).
The HDGEC Marie Curie Summer Schools form a consistent, coherent and independent programme of four training events under the overall theme of ‘earth system governance’. This theme has been chosen to reflect both the current state of discussion in the field of human dimensions of global environmental change, as represented in the global IHDP programme, and the recent attempts at integrating social science and natural science research on global environmental change. This motivation stands at the centre of integrated models of ‘earth system analysis’ and integrated ‘sustainability science’, which try to bring together all relevant academic disciplines at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
In 2007 and 2009 the training course was held in Amsterdam on the topics ‘Earth System Governance’ and ‘Adaptive Governance’. In 2008 the HDGEC School was held in Berlin on the topic ‘Inclusiveness and Participation in Earth System Governance’. The topic of the 2010 training course in Berlin will be ‘Architectures for Earth System Governance: The Distributional Implications of Environmental Change and Governance’.
Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU)
Freie Universität Berlin
European Union Marie Curie Action
Earth System Governance Project
Background
In 2007 the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam and the Environmental Policy Research Centre at Freie Universität Berlin initiated a series of four Marie Curie Summer Schools on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (HDGEC). The summer schools are held back-to-back with the annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (‘European IHDP Conferences’).
The HDGEC Marie Curie Summer Schools form a consistent, coherent and independent programme of four training events under the overall theme of ‘earth system governance’. This theme has been chosen to reflect both the current state of discussion in the field of human dimensions of global environmental change, as represented in the global IHDP programme, and the recent attempts at integrating social science and natural science research on global environmental change. This motivation stands at the centre of integrated models of ‘earth system analysis’ and integrated ‘sustainability science’, which try to bring together all relevant academic disciplines at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
In 2007 and 2009 the training course was held in Amsterdam on the topics ‘Earth System Governance’ and ‘Adaptive Governance’. In 2008 the HDGEC School was held in Berlin on the topic ‘Inclusiveness and Participation in Earth System Governance’. The topic of the 2010 training course in Berlin will be ‘Architectures for Earth System Governance: The Distributional Implications of Environmental Change and Governance’.