1. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Global Land Project Giovana Espindola IGBP and IHDP joint core project

2. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm GLP Future Earth Research Themes Dynamic PlanetGlobal Development Transformation towards Sustainability Land change impacts on the climate Historic perspectives on land transitions Drivers of land change and meta- analyses Indirect land use change Land-ocean interactions Data, models and scenarios Land at the crossroads of sustainability and development Land grabbing Rural-urban land interactions Land interactions on: Biodiversity Food security Water resources Ecosystem services Human health Governance of land resources Land sparing versus land sharing Land system architecture GLP map onto Future Earth Research Themes

3. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Rounsevell MDA, Pedroli B, Erb KH, Gramberger M, Busck AG, Haberl H, KristensenS, Kuemmerle T, Lavorel S, Lindner M, Lotze- Campen H, Metzger MJ, Murray-Rust D, Popp A, Perez-Soba M, Reenberg A, Vadineanu A, Verburg PH, Wolfslehner B, 2012. Challenges for land system science. Land Use Policy 29(4): 899-910. GLP Science Update Challenges for land system science (1) How can the analysis of empirical and historical land system datasets provide insight into human– environment interactions? (2) How can integrated modelling and the ecosystem service concept contribute to the testing of hypotheses about land system functioning and decision making? (3) How can our current understanding of land systems inform the choices that society has about future landscapes?

4. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Turner II BL, Janetos A, Verburg PH, Murray AT. Land system architecture: using land systems to adapt and mitigate global environmental change. 2012. Global Environmental Change. In press. Designed land use architecture can be used to mitigate climate change, or to optimize sets of environmental tradeoffs relative to socioeconomic wants and needs. GLP Science Update Sustainable Land Use Planning

5. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Anseeuw, W.; Boche, M.; Breu, T.; Giger, M.; Lay, J.; Messerli, P.; Nolte, K. Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South Analytical Report based on the Land Matrix Database. Number 1: April 2012. By The Land Matrix Partnership (CDE, CIRAD, GIGA, GIZ, ILC). GLP Science Update Worldwide Rush for Land

6. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Special Issue Land transformation: between global challenges and local realities Guest Editors Peter Verburg, Karlheinz Erb, Ole Mertz, Giovana Espindola Publication by Nov 2013 Content 17 papers invited Land change dynamics and underlying processes Interactions of land systems with social and biophysical systems Land governance: towards sustainable management of land resources GLP Syntheses

7. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Call for Sessions www.osm-glp2014.org Extended deadline - January 31 st 2013 The Land Science community is invited to contribute with sessions related to the conference themes: Rethinking land change transitions Local land users in a teleconnected world Impacts and responses Land governance GLP Syntheses

8. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm IGBP Land use induced land cover change (LULCC) synthesis Joint GLP/iLEAPS Workshop Wrap-up of IGBP Land use induced land cover change (LULCC) synthesis Kick-off of extension initiative: Interactions among Managed Ecosystems, Climate, and Societies (IMECS) September 2013 in Amsterdam GLP Syntheses

9. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center GLP Syntheses Synthesis across existing meta-analyses of land change drivers and impacts and identify common patterns across the different land change processes. “Globalizing our understanding of land use change drivers and impacts” see GLOBE Project

10. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm 6 new SSC 4 NO (Germany, China, Japan, Twain) + 4 new endorsed projects + Workshops GLP in 2012

11. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm GLP IPO Communication Efforts + Facebook and MailChimp…

12. IGBP IPO Meeting, January 15th-17th 2013, Stockholm Models in GLP