Research and Monitoring of Climate and Global Change in Switzerland

Part III - Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

 

Report of the Swiss National Committee for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change in co-operation with ProClim-

 

 

 

Table of contents

Foreword

Executive Summary

1. Purpose of the report and research framework

1.1 Purpose of the report
1.2 Human dimensions of global environmental change
1.3 What is the IHDP?
1.4 Proposed classification of global environmental change research

2. International research and monitoring activities

2.1 International Programmes
2.2 International Scientific and Technical Panels

3. Ongoing Swiss research and monitoring activities

3.1 Current research and monitoring
3.2 Current funding for research on the human dimensions of global environmental change
3.3 Institutional arrangements and co-ordination
3.4 Contributions to international programmes and assessments and to national needs

4. Future directions in Swiss research related to the human dimensions of global environmental change - A tentative summary

4.1 Internationally identified gaps in research and monitoring
4.2 Future directions in Swiss research
4.3 Next steps

References

Annexes

  1. Global Change Research & Monitoring Programmes - Human Dimensions
  2. Research and Monitoring Needs as identified by International Scientific and Technical Panels
  3. Ongoing Global Change Research in Switzerland - Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  4. Classification Scheme for Global Change Research
  5. Project Information in the ProClim- InfoSystem
  6. Abbreviations

Author
 
Dr. Maren Jochimsen, University of Cambridge, UK
 
Advisory group
 
Dr. Rudolf Bolzern, Swiss National Science Foundation
Prof. Dr. Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, University of Berne
Markus Nauser, Federal Office of Environment, Forests and Landscape
Dr. Christoph Ritz, ProClim-
Dr. Markus Zürcher, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
 
 
 
Financed by
ProClim-, the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the
Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

 

ProClim- Forum for Climate and Global Change Swiss National Committee for the IHDP

 

November 1996