PERI-CENE (Peri-urbanization & climate-environment change)

从空间上看，人类对地球的影响可以通过城市的扩张来观察;但城市本身正在向更大的领土扩张，城市之间和周围的无定形蔓延区域-即“城市周边”。可以说，地球不仅进入了人类世，而且也进入了一个“近世”：一个由半城市化形成的全球人类环境系统。在世界各地，城市周边地区表现出许多特征：全球中心和地方飞地、无序扩张、社区和生计中断，特别是气候风险和生态破坏日益严重。半城市化既是一个土地利用变化和影响的物质过程，也是一个社会、经济、政治和文化转型的人类过程：无论是非正式的还是有计划的，密集的还是广泛的，半城市化对城市食物、能源和水的供应至关重要。反过来，了解半城市化对三个可持续发展目标至关重要：关于可持续城市和社区的目标11，关于气候行动的目标13和关于陆地生命的目标15。PERI-CENE项目将首次全面评估城市化对气候的影响、风险和脆弱性。它将提供一个全球类型学和全球评估，并提供一个互动的城市周边分析工具。它与来自世界各地的18个城市地区建立了一个互动的生活实验室，并在两个案例研究中探讨了更深层次的问题。然后，PERI-CENE开发了可扩展和可转移的前向途径。

From space, the human impact on the planet is seen by the spread of cities; but the cities themselves are spreading into much larger territories, amorphous sprawling areas between and surrounding cities - i.e. the 'peri-urban'. Arguably, the planet has not only entered the Anthropocene, but also a 'Peri-cene': a global human-environment system shaped by peri-urbanization. Around the world the peri-urban displays many characteristics: global hubs and local enclaves, sprawl and disorder, disruption of communities and livelihoods, and in particular, growing climate risks and ecological disruption. Peri-urbanisation is both a material process of land-use change and impact, and a human process of social, economic, political, and cultural transitions: whether informal or planned, intensive or extensive, the peri-urban is critical to the provision of urban food, energy and water. In turn, understanding peri-urbanisation is critical to three Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13 on Climate Action, and Goal 15 for Life on Land. The PERI-CENE project will provide the first ever comprehensive assessment of peri-urbanisation climate impacts, risks and vulnerabilities. It will provide a global typology and global assessment with an inter-active peri-urban analysis tool. It builds an interactive Living Lab with 18 city-regions from around the world, and explores deeper issues in two case studies. The PERI-CENE then develops forward pathways to be scaleable and transferable.