The Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change
(CIPEC)
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Co-Directors:
Distinguished Professor Emilio Moran (Anthropology)
Associate Professor Tom Evans (Geography) |
The Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) is a center
funded by the National Science Foundation that studies processes of change in forest environments
as mediated by institutional arrangements, demographic factors, and other major human driving forces.
CIPEC is co-directed by Emilio Moran and Elinor Ostrom. Four other research centers on the Indiana
University Bloomington campus representing a diversity of researchers in the social, biological,
and physical sciences conduct diverse research projects related to various aspects of the Human
Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) agenda. These four centers are:
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?
CIPEC activities will include interdisciplinary training and research on these questions focusing
primarily on the Western Hemisphere while at the same time working interactively with other HDGC centers.
Sustained training efforts directed toward the conduct of new fieldwork will include research methods
ranging from (a) the interpretation of data collected by satellite and aerial photographs based on
detailed studies of woody vegetation composition and condition in a sample of sites at diverse latitudes,
(b) the use of GIS and relational databases to integrate vector and raster data obtained from various
scales, (c) the use of household surveys to obtain data about family and farm-level decision making, (d)
the use of group interviews and forest mensuration techniques to obtain insight into the decisions made by
user groups and their impact on local forest resources, and (e) use of archival and census data from
diverse jurisdictional levels, time periods, and countries to give estimates of the population dynamics involved.
CIPEC was originally funded as part of the Human Dimension Program
of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Press Releases:
HDGC Centers
The following are the other NSF-funded Human
Dimensions of Global Change Centers and Teams,
their primary institutional affiliation, the lead principle investigator,
and their web site address:
Also of interest:
Related Academic Programs
Ecology
Non-Governmental Organizations
Social Science Research Centers
Contact Information:
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Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change
408 North Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408-3799
USA
Voice: (812) 855-2230 Fax: (812) 855-2634
TDD: (812) 855-7654 Email: cipec@indiana.edu
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408 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408-3799
Phone: (812) 855-2230
TDD: (812) 855-7654
Fax: (812) 855-2634
Last Updated: 19 September, 2006
Comments: cipec@indiana.edu
Copyright
2006, The Trustees of Indiana
University.
