Abstract
IHDP’s performance between 1996 and 2014 can be described as a process of maturation of social science research vis-a-vis the challenges of climate and global environmental change. It is characterized by a number of independent research projects and an increasing embeddedness into joint programme developments with the natural sciences. Incorporation of IHDP into the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) and its full integration into the Future Earth initiative bear witness to these facts. The emergence of the concept of the Anthropocene, the discussions around a ‘geology of mankind’, and the increasingly undisputed conclusions of IPCC reports about the role of human footprints in shaping our planet by stimulating global warming and exerting deep impacts on the atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere—all three observations, assumptions and related theories have greatly influenced the steadily increasing importance of the social sciences in research into global change. In 2014, IHDP joined IGBP and DIVERSITAS in merging under the umbrella of Future Earth.
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