Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts

TRUC

Call

  • Coastal

Project Website

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • DFG (German Research Foundation), JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NSF (National Science Foundation)

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.

Region

  • Africa, Asia, Europe, North America

Country

  • Japan, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Duration

33 months

Call Date

2012

Project Award Date

2012