Project Details
Projekt
Informal settlements, economic and environmental change, and public health - Strategies to improve the quality of life in Dhaka (INNOVATE III)
Applicants
Professor Dr. Wilfried Endlicher; Professor Dr. Patrick Hostert; Professor Dr. Alexander Krämer; Professor Dr. Elmar Kulke
Subject Area
Human Geography
Term
from 2006 to 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 31537228
DHAKA-INNOVATE is centred around the informal settlements of Dhaka and focuses on 3 interwoven topics of vital relevance for the future development of the Mega-City of Dhaka, Bangladesh: Firstly, socioeconomic development, limitations, and improvement strategies; secondly, climatologic and air pollution effects from local to global scale; thirdly, public health issues related to socioeconomics, climate and air pollution. The research is undertaken in a spatially explicit way, linked in with remote sensing derived meta-indicators, and integrated via CIS-based modelling approaches. The research is taking into account the globalised framework of relevant processes, both socioeconomically and environmentally. Local effects will hence be embedded in a multiscale framework, focussing to derive relevant indicators in the context of global, regional and local driving forces. Results will on the one hand facilitate an integrated modelling allowing for future perspectives in the light of relevant processes in the context of Dhaka. On the other hand, indicator based and spatially explicit explanation pathways open up the opportunity to transfer results to other Mega-Cities.
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
International Connection
Bangladesh
Participating Persons
Professor Dr. Ashraf M. Dewan; Professor Humayun Kabir; Professor Dr. Mohammad Kabir; Professor Dr. Taiabur Rahman
