Category: Research & Funding Opportunities
Initiative Launched to Advance Sustainable Food and Agriculture Policies Worldwide
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on May 12, 2011 at 03:44 PM
“New Initiative to Provide Path Forward for Transforming Food and Ag Policy.” AGree Press Release 5/03/11. http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=339000010
posted in Environmental & Public Health • Activism & Social Change • Publications, Reports, Conferences • Research & Funding Opportunities •
Innovation Clusters
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on May 06, 2011 at 01:08 PM
New Program for Innovation Clusters Announced.
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Measuring efforts to translate science into public health action
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on February 21, 2011 at 09:21 AM
NIEHS formally launches its new Evaluation Metrics Manual(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/peph/materials/index.cfm). The manual targets programs in the NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/peph/index.cfm) program (see text box) with guidance for researchers and program staff on ways to use logic models to define what constitutes success and how to measure it.
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NSF Awards Grants for Research on Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on October 24, 2010 at 04:25 PM
NSF Awards Grants for Research on Coupled Natural and Human Systems. Mongolian rangelands and climate change, fire-prone landscapes, and invasive Spartina grasses in San Francisco Bay are among topics.
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NSF Awards Grants on Interactions Among the Environment, Economy and Society
Posted by Keith Pezzoli on October 24, 2010 at 04:19 PM
NSF Awards Grants on Interactions Among the Environment, Economy and Society. Geoscientists and social scientists will study such topics as agriculturists in Zambia and lawn fertilization practices in the U.S.
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