DPU, University College London

Investigations of environmental planning and management for the peri-urban interface, of the provision of water and sanitation for the peri-urban interfaces of metropolitan areas, of participation of peri-urban poor people in action planning for alternative livelihoods, of the role of peri-urban natural resource based production in urban food security, of the impact of globalisation upon peri-urban poor people, and of neo-customary land delivery systems for low income housing.

Contact Details
Babar Mumtaz
Email: b.mumtaz@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1111
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 1112

Adriana Allen
a.allen@ucl.ac.uk
urban and regional political ecology studies; urban and peri-urban environmental planning and management

Dr Robert Biel
r.biel@ucl.ac.uk
how communities adapt to globalisation; development at the level of the international system itself; commons regimes in urban agriculture

Dr Julio Dávila
j.davila@ucl.ac.uk
service provision governance in the peri-urban interface; metropolitan governance, subsidies and basic services; the dispersal of manufacturing in metropolitan regions

Caren Levy
c.levy@ucl.ac.uk
urban planning methodology; gender policy and planning; training and organisational development.

Michael Mattingly
m.mattingly@ucl.ac.uk
the role of peri-urban interface land in the livelihoods of poor people; neo-customary land delivery systems; capacity building in local government

Dr Sheilah Meikle
s.meikle@ucl.ac.uk
impact of economic growth on poor people; impact of energy use on the livelihoods of poor people; energy use by poor people

Babar Mumtaz
b.mumtaz@ucl.ac.uk
housing finance; urban management

Michael Safier
m.safier@ucl.ac.uk
urbanisation and regional development; the cosmopolitan culture of cities

Prof Patrick Wakely
change p.wakely@ucl.ac.uk
interaction among low income communities and local government; the role in development and governance of information management and communication; the management of institutional

Dr Le-Yin Zhang
le-yin.zhang@ucl.ac.uk
China’s financial reform and the reform of its state-owned enterprises; privatisation experience in transitional economies