The preliminary list of the Human Planet expert groups is reported below. In bold the established groups, in grey the new groups currently under discussion.
- Global harmonized definition of cities and settlements
Point of Contact from the Economic Analysis Unit at European Commission DG for Regional and Urban Policy (L.Dijkstra) - New global settlement data and civil society
Point of Contact from the Pennsylvania University, Penn Institute for Urban Research - Penn IUR (G. Birch) - Global Settlements in Disaster Risk Reduction
Point of Contact from the Global Partnership on Space Technology Applications for Disaster Risk Reduction GP-STAR (tbd) - Global Urban Climate and Mitigation Planning
Point of Contact from the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) (G. Mills) - Global updated and historical baseline data on population and built-up areas
Point of contact from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (T.Kemper) - Global high resolution age-structured population maps 2000 - 2020
Point of contact from the Univ. of Southampton, WorldPop (A.J.Tatem) - Global Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Data Intercomparison
Point of contact from the Columbia Univ., Center for International Earth Science Information Network (B.Chen) - Global historical baseline on human settlements and surface water dynamics
Point of Contact from the JRC Global Surface Water (A. Belward) - Global future population grids including demography and migration
Point of Contact from the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. (D.Balk) - Global urban metabolism
Point of Contact from the University of Denver Department of Geography & the Environment (P. Sutton) - Urbanization dynamics in China and the “one belt one road” region
Point of Contact from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences (LinLin Lu) - Capacity building and traineeships
Point of Contact from the ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente (R. Sliuzas)