Global Environmental Change and Human Security

Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) "is a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme. We situate environmental changes within the larger socioeconomic and political contexts that cause them, and which shape the capacity of communities to cope with and respond to change. Our research focuses on the way diverse social processes such as globalization, poverty, disease, and conflict, combine with global environmental change to affect human security.

"GECHS is overseen by a scientific steering committee, enriched by the contributions of associates, and coordinated from an international project office (IPO) located in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. The IPO is supported financially by the Norwegian Research Council and Norad."

Scientific Steering Committee
Accessed December 2007:


 * Karen O'Brien (Chair), University of Oslo, Norway
 * Jon Barnett, University of Melbourne, Australia
 * Hans-Georg Bohle, University of Bonn, Germany
 * Ken Conca, University of Maryland, USA
 * Indra de Soysa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
 * Patricia Kameri-Mbote, University of Nairobi, Kenya
 * Alexander Lopez, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
 * Lyla Mehta, University of Sussex, UK
 * Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Sunyani Polytechnic, Ghana
 * Joni Seager, York University, Canada
 * Jinxia Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Associates
Accessed December 2007:


 * Neil Adger, University of East Anglia, UK
 * Hans Guenter Brauch, Peace Research and European Security Studies, Germany
 * Mike Brklacich, Carleton University, Canada
 * Stewart Cohen, University of British Columbia, Canada
 * Geoff Dabelko, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA
 * Saswati Dutta, Chapman University, USA
 * Hallie Eakin, University of California in Santa Barbara, USA
 * Siri Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway
 * Nils Petter Gleditsch, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway
 * Betsy Hartmann, Hampshire College, USA
 * Gunhild Hoogensen, University of Tromsø, Norway
 * Richard J. T. Klein, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
 * Robin M. Leichenko, Rutgers University, USA
 * P. H. Liotta, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, USA
 * Andrei Marin, University of Bergen, Norway
 * Richard Matthew, University of California at Irvine, USA
 * Susanne C. Moser, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
 * Elena Nikitina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
 * Mark Pelling, King’s College London, UK
 * Ursula Oswald Spring, National University of Mexico
 * Asuncion Lera St. Clair, University of Bergen, Norway
 * Maureen Woodrow, Carleton University, Canada

Contact

 * Web: http://www.gechs.org