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DHAKA-INNOVATE
Informal Dynamics of Global Change
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 GIS-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.
 Principal Investigators:
Patrick Hostert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Elmar Kulke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Wilfried Endlicher (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Alexander Krämer (Universität Bielefeld)
Project Investigators:
Oliver Gruebner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Josef Strasser (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Katrin Burkart (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
MMH Khan (Universität Bielefeld)
Funding:
DFG Priority Programme 1233
Project website:
Megacities - Megachallenge, Informal Dynamics of Global Change
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