This $1,599,825 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The award aims to advance scientific theories and models of land use forecasting by integrating diverse, multi-scale data into dynamic prediction models to inform sustainable land use plans and prevent biodiversity and ecosystem service loss. The research will co-design decision support tools with scientists and policymakers in...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into the socioecological outcomes of restoration in forest-grassland ecosystems. The research aims to investigate how and why restoration programs impact social and environmental systems in these landscapes, including analyzing tradeoffs between ecological and social goals. The grant supports a multi-method approach, including remote...
This $804,950 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program investigates the effects of climate change on rural livelihoods, including food insecurity, health, migration, and changes to traditional practices. The research examines how environmental pressures and resource scarcity may impact cooperation and conflict within and between communities. The award, which spans from August 2024 to July 2027, supports a...
San Diego State University Foundation was awarded a $108,173 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support research from August 2022 to July 2025 to understand response and resilience following compound extreme climate events within pastoral systems. The interdisciplinary project brings together faculty with decades of experience in...
This $398,374 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program examines factors leading to forest regeneration in developing regions. The research project uses satellite imagery and ethnographic methods to understand how rural-to-urban land sales and tree crop cultivation by urban landowners contribute to forest regrowth. The award supports the training of graduate and undergraduate students, with the goal of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $284,044 to Northern Illinois University (NIU) to assess the adaptability of resilience models across multiple scales in addressing hazards such as hurricanes and wildfires. The research project employs a mixed-method, multi-sited approach including public conferences, hazard mapping, and risk perception surveys to identify factors that facilitate or...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $339,176 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Colorado Boulder on August 15, 2022 for work completing July 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining response and resilience to compound extreme climate events within pastoral systems, with a focus on droughts, floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts. The University of Colorado will lead interdisciplinary work analyzing how...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of California, San Diego a $350,998 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). Through this five-year award ending June 2028, UCSD will conduct four research projects examining how culture interacts with development policies and affects outcomes. The university will study improving accountability of local leaders, impacts of traditional property rights on land titling efforts, effects of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $738,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of North Texas (UNT) to study how land management practices after property buyouts can integrate ecosystem services and community preferences to improve ecological and societal outcomes. The key products of this 3-year project include documenting current land uses, estimating ecosystem functions, and gathering perspectives on land...
This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $398,887 to Arizona State University to investigate the impacts of land use change on the decline and recovery of coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean. The project combines paleoecological and geospatial analysis techniques to link long-term changes in coastal land use to shifts in reef water quality and coral health over the past 40 years. A...