The Global Land Project
hanged to Global Land Programme in 2016is a research initiative of
Future Earth (originally the
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) was a research programme that ran from 1987 to 2015 dedicated to studying the phenomenon of global change. Its primary focus was coordinating "international research on global-scale and regi ...
(IGBP) and the
International Human Dimensions Programme
The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) was a research programme that studied the human and societal aspects of the phenomenon of global change.
IHDP aimed to frame, develop and integrate social science ...
(IHDP)). It aims to understand the changes of the
land systems given the prospects of rapid and massive global environmental change. The goal of GLP is "to measure, model and understand the
coupled human-environment system".
The Global Land Project Science Plan describes the scientific questions that the land systems research community considers to be crucial for the next decade. GLP has three objectives that determine the research framework:
* To identify the agents, structures and nature of change in coupled human-environment systems on land, and to quantify their effects on the coupled system;
* To assess how the provision of
ecosystem services
Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from Ecosystem, ecosystems. The interconnected Biotic_material, living and Abiotic, non-living components of the natural environment offer benefits such as pollination of crops, clean ...
is affected by the changes in (i) above; and
* To identify the character and dynamics of vulnerable and sustainable coupled human-environment systems to interacting perturbations, including
climate change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...
.
External links
Global Land Programme websiteGlobal Land Project websiteGlobal Land Project Science Plan
Climatological research
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