This three-year, $436,156 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research examining government agencies' use of Cumulative Impact Assessment for Environmental Justice in environmental permit reviews. The grantee, the Regents of the University of Colorado, will conduct an empirical study of how three environmental regulatory agencies currently apply CIAEJ techniques. The research aims to identify agency...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to investigate the ethical issues surrounding Intentional Environmental Exposure Studies (IEES), where healthy volunteers are exposed to pollutants to study their health effects. The $599,485 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will fund data collection through interviews with IEES researchers, focus groups with diverse communities...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA #47.075) will support socioecological research and training on the emergence of inequality. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Simon Brewer at the University of Utah, the postdoctoral fellow will investigate environmental and social interactions driving material inequality in the Intermountain West. Quantitative modeling will evaluate the relative influences of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $117,721 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to support the "Collaborative Research: Science with the People" project. This two-year grant, funded under the CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, will enable residents to analyze government health data to document and examine patterns of health and well-being in their...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $406,342 CAREER grant to the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a new modeling framework for integrated assessment of climate, air quality, and environmental equity impacts of policy scenarios. The project aims to couple the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) with the Intervention Model for Air Pollution (INMAP) to analyze the co-benefits and trade-offs of decarbonization strategies, with a...
This two-year, $443,185 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will examine multigenerational persistence of environmental exposure to air pollution in the United States. The grantee, North Carolina A&T State University, will analyze four decades of individual-level data and collect oral histories from residents of 14 North Carolina counties to document experiences living in polluted neighborhoods and how these exposures have...
This $100,608 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the relationships between human activities, place attachment, and environmental factors. The project takes a mixed-methods approach, including mapping geographic patterns of human activities, to analyze how place attachments develop in response to changes in natural landscapes. The research findings will contribute to a...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $661,085 to Brown University for analysis of the impacts of environmental and natural hazards on human migration from September 1, 2021 to February 28, 2025. A sub-award of $36,000 is provided to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the participation of Dr. Curtis as co-principal investigator...
This $499,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the impacts of climate change on coastal communities in an urban environment. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (August 2024 - July 2027) include: Analysis of the alignment between water infrastructure, policies, and practices with emerging climate and environmental challenges such as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston. The grant will fund a one-year planning project to establish the Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience (CLIIR) Center, which will aim to advance scientific knowledge on the links between inequality and climate resilience to inform climate resilience policy decisions. Key planned activities include expanding...