At GCF Hinkel leads the research process on Adaptation and Social Learning, which focuses on the governance of human-environment interactions in the context of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adapocus on coastal systems. Hinkel is also Coordinating Lead Author of the guidance on methodologies for assessing vulnerability and adaptation developed by the UNEP Programme on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA) and member of the Science Committee of the Integrated Risk Governance Project (IRG-Project), established by the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) and currently in transition to Future Earth.