In order to make progress against the Belmont Challenge and help deliver international collaboration, the Belmont Forum has developed Collaborative Research Actions. CRAs:
- Address the Belmont Challenge priorities
- Lever Belmont Forum members existing investments
- Bring together new partnerships
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List of CRAs
Climate, Environment, and Health
Climate, Environment,
and Health
(CEH 2019)
Photo by UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed
The Belmont Forum in collaboration with Future Earth, announces a new collaborative research action for transdisciplinary research which will improve understanding of the pathways between climate, environment and health to protect and promote human health and well-being in the face of climate challenges.
Multilateral, inter- and transdisciplinary research projects will investigate where significant uncertainties exist that are barriers to action; address complex climate, ecosystem and health pathways to determine processes underlying causal links; and foster the use of scientific information and climate-related decision support tools to better inform planning and enhance resilience.
Call Documents
- Call for Proposals
- Proposal Form
- Proposal Form Instructions
- Expression of Interest Form
- Expression of Interest Form Instructions
- CEH Open Webinar Presentation
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br/en |
| Annex | Chinese Taipei | MoST | Ministry of Science and Technology | www.most.gov.tw |
| Annex | Cote d’ivoire | PASRES | PASRES | www.csrs.ch/pasres |
| Annex | Finland | AKA | Academy of Finland | www.aka.fi |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | Sweden | Forte | The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet) | forte.se |
| Annex | Turkey | TUBITAK | The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey | tubitak.gov.tr |
| Annex | United Kingdom | Met | Met Office | www.metoffice.gov.uk |
| Annex | United Kingdom | UKRI | UK Research and Innovation | www.ukri.org |
| Annex | United States | NIH | National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Fogarty International Center (FIC). | www.nih.gov |
| Annex | United States | NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | www.noaa.gov |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | www.nsf.gov |
| Annex | United States | NIFA | National Institute of Food and Agriculture | nifa.usda.gov |
Disaster Risk, Reduction and Resilience
Disaster Risk, Reduction, and Resilience
(DR3 2019)
The Disaster Risk, Reduction and Resilience (DR3) call responds to the growing need for assessment and reduction of disaster risk, collaborative co-design of resilience strategies with a breadth of stakeholders, and scientifically and technologically enhanced responses to disasters. In the context of this call, disasters are framed as extreme environmental events that negatively impact coupled human-natural systems. The generation of these events may have natural and/or anthropogenic causes.
Each project team must consist of, at a minimum, natural scientists, social scientists and humanities, and stakeholders. They must also be eligible for support from a minimum of 3 funders providing resources for DR3. Specific questions about support or themes can be addressed to program contacts within the organizational annexes.
Call Documents
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br/en |
| Annex | Chinese Taipei | MOST | Ministry of Science and Technology | www.most.gov.tw |
| Annex | Italy | CNR | National Research Council of Italy | dta.cnr.it |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | Qatar | QNRF | Qatar National Research Fund | www.qnrf.org |
| Annex | United Kingdom | UKRI | UK Research and Innovation | ukri.org |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
| Annex | Vietnam | VIGMR | Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources | www.vigmr.vn |
Resilience in Rapidly Changing Arctic Systems
Resilience in Rapidly Changing Arctic Systems
(Arctic II 2019)
The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a second Collaborative Research Action focused on Arctic region. The title of this international funding opportunity is Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Arctic. The call aims at bringing together researchers and other expertise across the globe to develop proposals from integrated teams of scientists and stakeholders to address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience.
Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal https://bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.
Call Documents
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Canada | NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca |
| Annex | Denmark | DAFSHE | Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education | ufm.dk |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | anr.fr/Belmont-Arctique-2019 |
| Annex | Iceland | RANNIS | Icelandic Center for Research | www.rannis.is |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | The Netherlands | NWO | Netherlands Polar Programme (NPP) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). | www.nwo.nl/en/documents/ nwo/legal/nwo-grant-rules-1-may-2017 |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | Russia | RFBR | Russian Foundation for Basic Research | www.rfbr.ru |
| Annex | Sweden | Formas | Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning | www.formas.se |
| Annex | United States | BOEM | U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) | www.boem.gov |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability
Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability
(Oceans 2018)
This CRA call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of ocean sustainability, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #14 (Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development) as the overall framework.
This call encourages global partnerships of academics and non-academics to address one or more of the following topics:
- Pathways toward a sustainable and equitable use of oceans
- Accounting for and minimizing impacts of global change
This call aims to support medium-size research projects with a direction of three to four years, with a recommended budget of up to €1.5 million. Note that some contributions are in-kind. See organizational annexes for specific constraints and requirements of your funding organization(s). Projects are expected to start in 2020.
Call Documents
- Call for Proposals
- Registration Form
- Registration Form Instructions
- Proposal Form
- Proposal Form Instructions
- Data and Digital Outputs Management Plan (DDOMP) Guide
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Australia | CSIRO | Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | csiro.au |
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | Germany | BMBF | Federal Ministry of Education and Research | www.ptj.de/projektfoerderung /mare-n/belmont-forum |
| Annex | Iceland | RANNIS | Icelandic Centre for Research | en.rannis.is/funding/research |
| Annex | India | MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences | www.moes.gov.in |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp/inter/english |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | The Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | Philippines | DOST-PCIEERD | Department of Science and Technology | pcieerd.dost.gov.ph |
| Annex | Russia | RFBR | Russian Foundation for Basic Research | www.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng |
| Annex | Saudi Arabia | KAUST | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | www.kaust.edu.sa/en |
| Annex | South Africa | NRF | National Research Foundation | www.nrf.ac.za |
| Annex | Sweden | FORMAS | Swedish Research Council for Env, Agric Sci & Spatial Planning | www.formas.se/en |
| Annex | Sweden/African countries | SIDA | Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency | www.sida.se |
| Annex | United States/international | BOEM | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management | www.boem.gov |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | www.nsf.gov |
Science-driven e-Infrastructure Innovation (SEI) for the Enhancement of Transnational, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Data Use in Environmental Change
Science-driven e-Infrastructure Innovation
(SEI 2018)
This CRA targets initiatives that are well positioned to bring together environmental, social and economic scientists with data scientists, computational scientists, and e-infrastructure and cyber-infrastructure developers and providers for a shared goal: to solve methodological, technological and/or procedural challenges facing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary environmental change research that involves working with large, diverse and transnational, multi-source data. The SEI CRA will closely link research thinking and technological innovation toward accelerating the full path of discovery-driven data use and open science. This will enable a broader scientific community to benefit from the identified new and potentially disruptive demonstrators or pilots toward solutions.
Call Documents
- Call for Proposals
- Proposal Form
- Proposal Form Instructions
- Data and Digital Outputs Management Plan
- National Annexes
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br |
| Annex | Chinese Taipei | MoST | Ministry of Science and Technology | www.most.gov.tw |
| Annex | France | ANR | French National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | USA | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services II
Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services II
(Biodiversity II 2017)
The Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services II is a follow up to the first Belmont Forum Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services CRA. This collaborative funding opportunity is a joint call with the Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA.
The Call will address the two following major (non-exclusive) priorities:
- Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
- Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios
The call aims at supporting proposals that explicitly address a scenario dimension, taking into account the following definition of scenarios: “Scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services are the outputs of the combination of scenarios of indirect drivers and direct drivers — such as land use change, invasive alien species, overexploitation, climate change or pollution — and models of impacts of these drivers on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Call Documents
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
Transformations 2 Sustainability
Transformations 2 Sustainability
(T2S 2016)
The Transformations 2 Sustainability (T2S) is a collaborative funding program initiated by the Belmont Forum and the NORFACE Network. The objectives of T2S are:
- To develop an understanding of and promote research on transformations to sustainability, which are of significant social, economic and policy concern
- To build capacity, overcome fragmentation and have a lasting impact on both society and the research landscape by cultivating durable research collaboration across multiple borders, disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners and societal partners
Twelve transnational research projects have been recommended for funding, totaling 11.5 million euros, by the Belmont Forum and NORFACE joint programme Transformations to Sustainability (T2S). The twelve teams with 56 principal investigators will undertake research in transformations to sustainability areas ranging from groundwater, mining, urban areas and land-registration, to the role of migration and intellectual property rights in sustainability transitions. The projects involve researchers from a wide variety of disciplines working together across the globe, from Brazil to Sweden and from Japan to Burkina Faso. More information on the funded projects will be announced when the awards have been finalized.
Call Documents
- Call for Proposals
- Programme Text
- Proposal Form
- Proposal Form Instructions
- Data Management Plan Template
- Funding Agency Budget Templates
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Belgium-Flanders | FWO | Research Foundation Flanders | www.fwo.be |
| Annex | Belgium-Wallonia & Brussels Federation | FNRS | The Fund for Scientific Research | www.frs-fnrs.be |
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br |
| Annex | Chinese Taipei | MOST | Ministry of Science and Technology | www.most.gov.tw |
| Annex | Finland | AKA | Academy of Finland | www.aka.fi |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | Germany | BMBF | Federal Ministry of Education and Research | www.ptj.de/projektfoerderung /mare-n/belmont-forum |
| Annex | Ireland | IRC | Irish Research Council | research.ie/funding/norface |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp/inter/english |
| Annex | Latvia | VIAA | State Education development agency | viaa.gov.lv |
| Annex | Luxembourg | FNR | Luxembourg National Research Fund | fnr.lu/internation-cooperation-opportunities |
| Annex | Netherlands | NWO | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research | www.nwo.nl |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | Slovenia | ARRS | Slovenian Research Agency | www.arrs.si/sl |
| Annex | Sweden | VR | Vetenskapsrådet,Swedish Research Council | www.vr.se |
| Annex | Switzerland | SNSF | Swiss National Science Foundation | www.snf.ch/en |
| Annex | United Kingdom | ESRC | Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning | www.esrc.ac.uk/t2s. |
| Annex | USA | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
| Annex | Low- and lower-middle income countries | ISSC | International Social Science Council | https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/ knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and -lending-groups |
Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)
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The Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) is a joint call by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge.
The call seeks to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world’s population underscores the importance of this focus. International partners are invited to develop solutions for this challenge.
Call Documents
E-Infrastructures and Data Management
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The call brought together domain scientists, computer and information scientists, legal scholars, social scientists, and other experts from more than fourteen countries to establish recommendations for how the Belmont Forum can implement a more coordinated, holistic and sustainable approach to the funding and support of global change research.
Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages
Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages
(Climate 2014)
This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services, with a focus on the role of inter-regional linkages in climate variability and predictability by addressing the following:
- Understanding past and current variability and trends of regional extremes
- Predictability of near‐future variability and trends of regional extremes
- Co-construction of near-term forecast products with users
Call Documents
- Call for Proposals
- Pre-Proposal Form
- Pre-Proposal Form Instructions
- Proposal Form
- Proposal Form Instructions
- Selection Criteria
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Austria | BMWFW | Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economics | era.gv.at/object/document/1671 |
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br |
| Annex | China | NSFC | National Natural Science Foundation of China | www.nsfc.gov.cn |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | Germany | BMBF | Federal Ministry of Education and Research | www.bmbf.de/en/index.html |
| Annex | India | MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India | www.moes.gov.in |
| Annex | Japan | JST / MEXT | Japan Science and Technology Agency / Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | Qatar | QNRF | Qatar National Research Fund | www.qnrf.org |
| Annex | Sweden | FORMAS | Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning | www.formas.se/en |
| Annex | The Netherlands | NWO | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research | www.nwo.nl/en |
| Annex | United Kingdom | NERC | Natural Environment Research Council | nerc.ukri.org |
Mountains as Sentinels of Change
Mountains as Sentinels of Change
(Mountains 2015)
The Mountains as Sentinels of Change call aimed at fostering research on climate, environmental and related societal change in mountain regions by facilitating research with respect to the following:
- Drivers of change
- Ecosystems and biodiversity
- Water
- Hazards, vulnerability and risks
- Adaptation and resilience
Call Documents
- Call for Proposals
- Pre-Proposal Form
- Pre-Proposal Form Instructions
- Proposal Form
- Form Instructions
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br/en |
| Annex | China | NSFC | Natural Science Foundation of China | www.nsfc.gov.cn |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr |
| Annex | Germany | DFG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | www.dfg.de |
| Annex | Italy | CNR-DTA | Department of Earth System Science and Environmental Technologies (DTA) of the National Research Council (CNR) | www.dta.cnr.it/index.php/en |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability
Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability
(Arctic 2014)
The purpose of this call was to develop projects that utilize existing arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the arctic region across one or more of four possible themes:
- The natural and living environment
- The built environment and infrastructures
- Natural resource management and development
- Governance
Call Documents
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Canada | NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca |
| Annex | Canada | SSHRC | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspx |
| Annex | China | NSFC | Natural Science Foundation of China | www.nsfc.gov.cn |
| Annex | France | CNRS | National Center for Scientific Research | www.cnrs.fr |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | Germany | BMBF | National Ministry for Education and Research | www.bmbf.de |
| Annex | Iceland | RANNIS | Icelandic Center for Research | en.rannis.is |
| Annex | India | MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences | www.moes.gov.in |
| Annex | Italy | CNR | National Council of Research | www.dta.cnr.it |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | Norway | NordForsk | NordForsk | www.nordforsk.org/en |
| Annex | Russia | RFBR | Russian Foundation for Basic Research | www.rfbr.ru |
| Annex | United States | BOEM | U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) | www.boem.gov |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
(Biodiversity 2014)
This call stimulated networking and capacity building for innovative research across social and natural science disciplines. Funded projects address the following:
- Harmonizing and integrating development and application of biodiversity scenarios across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
- Harmonizing and integrating consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services
Call Documents
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Australia | CSIRO | Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | www.csiro.au |
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br |
| Annex | China | NSFC | National Natural Science Foundation of China | www.nsfc.gov.cn |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | Germany | DFG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | www.dfg.de |
| Annex | India | MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences | www.moes.gov.in |
| Annex | Japan | MEXT/JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | Norway | RCN | Research Council of Norway | www.forskningsradet.no |
| Annex | South Africa | NRF | National Research Foundation | www.nrf.ac.za |
Food Security and Land Use Change
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This call was designed to increase understanding of the dynamic spatial scale interactions between food security and land use. The focus was on the following topics:
- Land use change impacts on food systems
- Food systems dynamics as driver of land use changes
- Feedback loop interactions between land use change and food security dynamics
Call Documents
Call Documents – Funding Annexes
| Annex | Country | Funding Agency Abbr. | Funding Agency | Funding Agency Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | Australia | CSIRO | Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | www.csiro.au |
| Annex | Brazil | FAPESP | São Paulo Research Foundation | www.fapesp.br/belmontforum |
| Annex | Cyprus | RPF | Research Promotion Foundation | www.research.org.cy |
| Annex | France | ANR | National Research Agency | www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF |
| Annex | India | MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences | www.moes.gov.in |
| Annex | Ireland | Teagasc | Agriculture and Food Development Authority | www.teagasc.ie// |
| Annex | ISRAEL | MOARD | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development | www.moag.gov.il |
| Annex | Japan | JST | Japan Science and Technology Agency | www.jst.go.jp |
| Annex | The Netherlands | WUR | Wageningen University & Research | www.wur.nl/ |
| Annex | Romania | UEFISCDI | Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation | uefiscdi.gov.ro |
| Annex | South Africa | NRF | National Research Foundation | www.nrf.ac.za |
| Annex | Switzerland | SNSF | Swiss National Science Foundation | www.snf.ch/en/ |
| Annex | United Kingdom | BBSRC/ESRC/NERC | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Economic and Social Research Council NaturalEnvironment Research Council |
bbsrc.ukri.org esrc.ukri.org nerc.ukri.org/ |
| Annex | United States | NSF | National Science Foundation | nsf.gov |
Coastal Vulnerability
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The purpose of this call was to promote the development, comparison and transfer of coastal scientific approaches. The focus was on the vulnerability, resilience and adaptation options of coastal societal, managed and natural systems to multiple drivers.
Freshwater Security
This call was created to address the following:
- Identification and characterization of the interactions between natural processes and human practices that govern water budgeting in selected regions
- Development of approaches that support the evolution of resilient communities/regions through improved seasonal forecasting of droughts, taking into account natural and socio-economic drivers
