IHOPE (Integrated History and Future of People on Earth) - International and interdisciplinary projects working to make the past better serve the future.

IHOPE (Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, http://ihopenet.org/ ) works to mobilize the record of “completed long term human ecodynamics experiments of the past” for better integration of long-term perspectives into planning and scenario construction aimed at building resilience and future sustainability. A component of the Future Earth : Transformations Towards Sustainability theme ( http://www.futureearth.org/themes/transformations-towards-sustainability ), IHOPE provides archaeology with a voice in the acronym-rich realm of international Global Environmental Change research programs. IHOPE works to integrate regional-scale transdisciplinary approaches to cases of resilience, transformation, and collapse. This session provides a sampling of IHOPE projects and perspectives, including: environmental impacts of the Northern Crusades in the Baltic, the integrative work of the IHOPE Maya group, cross regional case comparisons connecting the Desert Southwest and North Atlantic islands, the connection of Local and Traditional Knowledge to millennial scale sustainable resource management, to archaeological consideration of early large scale human impacts in China as part of an investigation of the “roots of the Anthropocene”. IHOPE and its sister organization GHEA (Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance, www.gheahome.org ) welcome new participants and perspectives to make past better serve the future.