1. Global Land Project Giovana Espindola IGBP and IHDP joint core project

2. GLP map onto Future Earth Research Themes

3. 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? 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.

4. GLP Science Update Sustainable Land Use Planning Designed land use architecture can be used to mitigate climate change, or to optimize sets of environmental tradeoffs relative to socioeconomic wants and needs. 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.

5. GLP Science Update Worldwide Rush for Land 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).

6. GLP Syntheses • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability • Special Issue • Land transformation: between global challenges and local realities • Guest Editors • Peter Verburg, KarlheinzErb, 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

7. GLP Syntheses • Call for Sessions • www.osm-glp2014.org • Extended deadline - January 31st 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 teleconnectedworld • Impacts and responses • Land governance

8. GLP Syntheses 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

9. GLP Syntheses US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center “Globalizing our understanding of land use change drivers and impacts” Synthesis across existing meta-analyses of land change drivers and impacts and identify common patterns across the different land change processes. see GLOBE Project

10. GLP in 2012 6 new SSC4 NO (Germany, China, Japan, Twain)+ 4 new endorsed projects + Workshops

11. GLP IPO Communication Efforts + Facebook and MailChimp…

12. Models in GLP