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 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.