Emilio Moran
Student Building 331; IUB
(812) 855-6181
(812) 855-3000 FAX
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The mission of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research
on Global Environmental Change is to provide a setting where interdisciplinary
training and research on the human dimensions of global environmental
change can take place, thus, the reason for naming it "anthropological." The Center's acronym, ACT, suggests that its goal is to be an active player in global environmental research currently underway here and abroad. It represents a pioneering effort to make it possible to address both the local and the global dimensions of a number of environmentally critical areas. ACT provides training and research opportunities for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and visitors. ACT research is primarily concerned with four broad areas: land use and land cover change; human ecology; population and environment; and deforestation and successional processes -- particularly in the Amazon Basin using a combination of satellite digital data analysis and field studies. Training focuses on population and environment, GIS, and satellite image analysis. The Center is designed to be interdisciplinary and to place greater emphasis on local responses to environmental change than is the norm at global change centers.
