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About Science Collaborative
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Why We’re Here
The NERRS Science Collaborative was created to put Reserve-based science to work for coastal communities coping with the impacts of land use change, pollution, and habitat degradation in the context of a changing climate. Our program is based on the belief that for science to be applied to coastal management problems, the people who need to use the science must be involved in its generation.
Why? Few coastal resource management problems are purely “environmental” in nature. They impact economies and business, infrastructure and property, human health and well-being. Science may be essential to addressing a problem, but when it does not account for the economic, regulatory, and social aspects of a problem, it often gets ignored.
The projects we fund are designed to bring the intended users of the science into the research process so that their perspectives can inform problem definition, research design and implementation, and ultimately, application of the project’s results. This is what we mean by “collaboration,” and it is our goal to use this process to ensure that the good science happening in and around the Reserves gets put to good use.
Learn more about our approach to collaboration.
Last Updated on: Friday, March 11, 2011
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