Project Profile: METROPOLE
An Integrated Framework to Analyze Local Decision Making and Adaptive Capacity to Large-Scale Environmental Change: Community Case Studies in Brazil, United Kingdom and the United States
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, United States |
| Partners: | Jose Marengo Orsini, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Sin Chin, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Luiz Aragao, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Mark Pelling, King's College London, United Kingdom Sue Grimmond, King's College London, United Kingdom Sam Merrill, University of Southern Maine Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, United States Luci Hidalgo Nunes, Institute of Geosciences - State University of Campinas, Brazil Catherine Reynolds, University of South Florida, United States Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, University of South Florida, United States Jack Kartez, Catalysis Adaptation Partners, United States Jonathan Lockman, Catalysis Adaptation Partners, United States Luiz Aragao, University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
| Sponsors: | São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil National Environment Research Council, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | An Integrated Framework to Analyze Local Decision Making and Adaptive Capacity to Large-Scale Environmental Change: Community Case Studies in Brazil, United Kingdom and the United States |
| Full Call Title: | Coastal2012 |
| Website: | http://metropole.marine.usf.edu/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | METROPOLE's objective is to understand how the social, cultural and political context impacts how decision makers and the public perceive and respond to potential local environmental, economic and health risks due to large-scale change. METROPOLE's objective is to understand how the social, cultural and political context impacts how decision makers and the public perceive and respond to potential local environmental, economic and health risks due to large-scale change. |
| 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: | Europe, North America, South America |
| Countries: | Brazil, United Kingdom |
When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | 2012 |
| Project Award Date: | 2012 |
