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Environmental and Natural Resource Economists, Great Research, and the National Science Foundation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Robert E. O’Connor
Robert E. O’Connor*
Affiliation:
Risk and Management Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia
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Abstract

Environmental and natural resource economists could be more effectively engaged in great research on exciting issues in environmental and natural resource management. After identifying possible obstacles to improved research, the article focuses on opportunities and obstacles associated with obtaining funding from the National Science Foundation. Opportunities abound, both ongoing and in the future, for interdisciplinary work involving environmental and natural resource economists. Keys to exploiting these opportunities for funding include a willingness to face rejection, build teams, contact program officers with specific questions, write detailed research designs, and prepare proposals that promise to go beyond narrow incremental advances.

Keywords

natural resource economistsNational Science Foundationresearch funding opportunities
Type
Invited Papers
Information
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , April 2008 , pp. 16 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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