Sponsor
The IHOPE initiative has received support from several sources, including: the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), the Stockholm Resilience Center, the QUEST project at the University of Bristol, the University of Uppsala, Arizona State University, the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University, the Australian National University, the Dahlem Foundation, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNRL). We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts.
Published In
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
2-1-2012
Subjects
Human beings -- Effect of environment on, Ecology -- Social aspects, Human ecology, Nature -- Effect of environment on
Abstract
The Integrated History and future of People of Earth (IHOPE) initiative is a global network of researchers and research projects with its International Program Office (IPO) now based at the Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC), Upsalla University, Arizona State University, Portland State University, and the Australian National University. Research linked to IHOPE demonstrates that Earth system changes in the past have been strongly associated with changes in the coupled human-environment system. IHOPE supports integrating knowledge and resources from the biophysical and the social sciences and the humanities to address analytical and interpretive issues associated with coupled human-earth system dynamics. This integration of human history and Earth system history is a timely and important task. Until recently, however, there have been few attempts at such integration. IHOPE will create frameworks that can be used to help achieve this integration. The overarching goal is to produce a rich understanding of the relationships between environmental and human processes over the past millennia. IHOPE recognizes that one major challenge for reaching this goal is developing ?workable? terminology that can be accepted by scholars of all disciplines. The specific objectives for IHOPE are to identify slow and rapidly moving features of complex social-ecological systems, on local to continental spatial scales, which induce resilience, stress, or collapse in linked systems of humans in nature. These objectives will be reached by exploring innovative ways of conducting inter and transdisciplinary science, including theory, case studies, and integrated modeling. Examples of projects underway to implement this initiative are briefly discussed.
DOI
10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.010
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8660
Citation Details
Costanza, R., S. van der Leeuw, K. Hibbard, S. Aulenbach, S. Brewer, M. Burek, S. Cornell, et al. 2012. Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4 (1) (February): 106-114. doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.010.
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NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol 4, Issue 1, 2012.