IHOPE Research Network

IHOPE is an international community of researchers and research projects that integrate the past of the Earth system and the history of human presence with the goal of a just and sustainable future. We facilitate collaboration among the environmental sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, in addition to indigenous and local communities, citizen scientists, modelers and scenario builders, resource managers, decision makers, complexity thinkers and practitioners in fields such as architecture, engineering, and law. We build networks but do not fund research. We provide expertise to manage the future of landscapes and regions. Our research strategies: We apply long-term, human-scale, and place-based perspectives that can be folded into the global system. We encourage theoretical pluralism, so long as widely accepted scholarly and ethical standards are met. We employ the toolbox of historical ecology, environmental humanities, and the study of complex systems to use the past as a laboratory. Viable modes of living on Earth cannot be found without incorporating human history, cognition, and cultural and geographic diversity into models and scenarios for the human future. The Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) represents a coalition of science and humanities scholars with communities to facilitate pragmatic, sustainable, and ethical place-based management and to diversify expertise to manage the future. If you would like to become a member and collaborate on projects and research, send us an email to sign up.