Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC)
Emilio Moran
Tom Evans
408 North Indiana Avenue; IUB
(812) 855-2230
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The Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) studies processes of change in forest environments as mediated by institutional arrangements, demographic factors, and other major human driving forces. CIPEC uses three broad questions to organize its diverse research agenda:
- How are regional and global political and economic processes linked to human behaviors at household and community levels?
- 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?
- How do institutional arrangements influence the direction and size of the impact of human driving forces, such as population density and transportation networks, on ecosystems and global change?
While CIPEC activities focus primarily on the Western Hemisphere, new sites in Africa and Asia complement continued interdisciplinary training and research on these questions, working interactively with other Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) centers.
