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The Center for the Study of
Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC)
studies
processes of forest environments as mediated by institutional
arrangements, demographic factors and other human driving forces, and
uses three broad questions to organize its diverse research agenda:
(1) How are regional and global political and economic processes
linked to human behaviors at household and community levels? (2) How can
macro-scale physical and biological processes observed and modeled at a
global scale be linked to meso and micro human organizational and
decision-making processes? (3) How do institutional arrangements
influence the impact of human driving forces, such as population density
and transportation networks, on ecosystems and global change? The
research is collaborative, multinational, comparative, and quantitative.
Work is currently ongoing in eight countries of the Americas, including
the Amazon Basin, as well as in the forested mountain regions of Nepal.
CIPEC
works closely with four research centers at Indiana University that
represent a diversity of researchers in the social, biological, and
physical sciences relevant to environmental policy and management
issues. These four centers
include the following:
Workshop
on Political Theory and Policy Analysis. The Workshop offers both
yearlong and semester-long training programs that focus on
institutional aspects of environmental resource
management--especially forestry and water resources management.
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The
Population Institute for Research and Training (PIRT) offers a minor
field in Population Studies for Ph.D. students and has programs
specifically designed to develop contact with young demographers in
developing countries.
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The
Anthropological Center for Training & Research on Global
Environmental Change (ACT) is dedicated to research and training on
the human dimensions of global environmental change.
ACT provides professionals with training and the tools of
satellite remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and
field methods appropriate to the social science analysis of
environmental change.
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Midwestern
Regional Center (MRC) of the National Institute for Global
Environmental Change (NIGEC). A
unit of IU's highly regarded School of Public and Environmental
Affairs, MRC operates in an interdisciplinary, multi-investigator
mode, examining the causes and consequences associated with global
environmental change, particularly climate change due to human
modification of the atmosphere.
For more information please visit their website at:
http://www.cipec.org/
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