Project Profile: TRUC
Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Mark Pelling, King’s College, London, United Kingdom |
| Partners: | Joern Birkmann, United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security, Germany William Solecki, City University of New York, Institute for Sustainable Cities, United States Ramesh Ramachandran, Anna University, India Masumi Yamamuro, The University of Tokyo, Japan Alice Newton, Norsk institutt for luftforskning*, Norway Sue Grimmond, King’s College, London, United Kingdom Julius Agboola, Lagos State University, Nigeria Zhongyuan Chen, State Key laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Institute, China |
| Sponsors: | German Research Foundation, Germany Ministry of Earth Sciences, India Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts |
| Full Call Title: | Coastal2012 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | TRUC will build an original integrated, participatory framework in collaboration with stakeholders to first characterise and then identify interactions between bio-physical, land-use and decision-making processes. The aim is to reveal the pathways and trade-offs through which systems interactions constrain or open opportunities for resilience or transformation how these outcomes themselves interact and influence sustainable development; offering scope for considerable theoretical, methodological and practical advancement. |
| Call Objective: | The purpose of this call was to promote the development, comparison and transfer of coastal scientific approaches. The focus was on the vulnerability, resilience and adaptation options of coastal societal, managed and natural systems to multiple drivers. |
Where?
| Regions: | Africa, Asia, Europe, North America |
| Countries: | Japan, Nigeria, United Kingdom |
When?
| Duration: | 33 months |
| Call Date: | 2012 |
| Project Award Date: | 2012 |
