The Global Land Project is a research initiative of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). GLP’s focus is land-centric and the goal is to measure, model and understand the coupled human-environmental systems.
GLP has developed a science plan around three objectives:
- to identify the agents, structures and nature of change in coupled socio-environmental systems on land and quantify their effects on the coupled system;
- to assess how the provision of ecosystem services is affected by these changes; and
- to identify the character and dynamics of vulnerable and sustainable coupled socio-environmental land systems to interacting perturbations, including climate change.