Request for Integrated Assessment Pre-Proposals
Applications for the 2008 Integrated Assessment must be submitted online by April 4, 2008 at 5 p.m. (EDT)
Overview of Opportunity
Michigan Sea Grant is soliciting pre-proposals for Integrated Assessment projects. The program will consider proposals of up to three years’ duration (February 2009 through January 2012) for grant requests up to $140,000. Pre-proposals are due Friday, April 4, 2008 at 5 p.m. Investigators invited to full proposal will be notified in April with full proposals due at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 23.
Integrated assessment is a formal approach to synthesizing and delivering relevant, independent scientific input to decision makers through a comprehensive analysis of existing natural and social scientific information in the context of a policy or management question. From a solid science base, it brings together citizens, industry representatives, scientists, and policy makers to define and evaluate policy and/or management options on particularly difficult – wicked – environmental problems. The kinds of problems/questions best suited to integrated assessment are those that have both arguable issue definitions (i.e. no clear-cut cause) and arguable solutions, and they are typically at the center of most environmental sustainability conflicts.
More detailed application information can be found in the RFP below.
Questions or Additional Information
 Jennifer Read
Assistant Director & Research Coordinator
jenread@umich.edu
(734) 936-3622
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