Deadline: 5-Oct-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have announce a call for applications for the Synthesising evidence in economics of biodiversity.
Themes
Your project should focus on terrestrial and freshwater habitats. It must bring together critical thinking, data analysis and evidence to address at least one of these themes:
- Understanding biodiversity values in decision-making: The values associated with the economics of biodiversity are more nuanced than market valuation and the values that different individuals, groups, organisations and sectors assign to biodiversity are not uniform.
- Biodiversity, natural capital and resilience: In order to make informed decisions on the sustainable use of ecosystems, implementing ecosystem restoration and nature-based solutions.
- Management tools for decision-making: Most decisions that impact upon biodiversity and ecosystems are made at the local scale, yet a majority of the established and emerging natural capital and ecosystem services decision support tools that capture the value of biodiversity operate at a broad ecosystem scale.
Funding Information
- NERC and ESRC have provisionally allocated £440,000 to this funding opportunity. The maximum funding per project is £50,000 (at 100% full economic cost) with a duration of up to three months. They will fund 80% of the project’s full economic cost, that is, up to £40,000 per project.
- Projects should be no longer than three months in duration and start no later than 1 February 2022.
UKRI is looking for
NERC and ESRC are seeking to support a portfolio of three-month duration awards that will gather and synthesise the current state of knowledge and evidence in topic areas relevant to the Economics of Biodiversity programme.
The Economics of Biodiversity programme will address critical gaps in the current understanding of the economic benefits and costs that society associates with biodiversity, a core component of the natural world.
The programme will:
- examine how different values are applied and utilised
- assess where and how economic and ecological knowledge combines effectively to manage resilience of ecosystems
- consider how evidence-based synergies and trade-offs can be scaled, analysed, quantified, and incorporated into effective decision-making at local, national and global scales.
Eligibility Criteria
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) research and fellowship grants for all schemes may be held at:
- approved UK higher education institutions (HEIs)
- approved research council institutes (RCIs)
- independent research organisations (IROs)
- public sector research establishments (PSREs).
For more information, visit https://beta.ukri.org/opportunity/synthesising-evidence-in-economics-of-biodiversity/
