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

METROPOLE

Call

  • Coastal

Project Website

http://metropole.marine.usf.edu/

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NSF (National Science Foundation)

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.

Region

  • Europe, North America, South America

Country

  • Brazil, United Kingdom

Duration

36 months

Call Date

2012

Project Award Date

2012