Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project
The Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project is one of the core research projects of the International [Human Dimensions Programme|International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)]. UGEC aims to understand the bi-directional interactions between urbanization and global environmental change. The UGEC International Project Office is located at Arizona State University.
According to its Science Plan, UGEC aims to provide a better understanding of the interactions and feedbacks between global environmental change and urbanization at the local, regional, and global scales. UGEC pursues four areas of research:
- Processes within urban systems that contribute to global environmental change.
- Pathways through which specific global environmental changes affect urban systems.
- Urban responses to global environmental change.
- Consequences of urban responses to global environmental change.
- creating multidimensional integrative perspectives;
- promoting parallel and comparative analysis across regions and themes;
- utilizing cross-temporal and cross-spatial scale approaches; and
- outreaching and communicating UGEC-related scientific information to policy makers and the public.