Environmental Policy Initiative

Past Seed Grant Recipients

The Seed Grant program of the Environmental Policy Initiative is designed to assist in the development of research that will contribute to the advancement of environmental policy science. Funded projects must have direct environmental policy relevance and a strong likelihood of obtaining larger external support in the near future. In addition, the seed grant program also values multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers in different departments and colleges, as well as support of emerging faculty researchers. Although, all of these goals cannot always be met in each proposal, the EPI seeks to contribute to research projects that address a majority of these attributes.

2004 Seed Grant Recipients:

Title: Watershed Development in Ecuador: Economic Analysis and Policy Dialogue

Investigators: Douglas Southgate (AED Economics), Fabian Rodriguez

Amount: $2,142.50

2002 Seed Grant Recipients:

Title: Role of bounded rationality on environmental performance incentives

Investigators: Hal Arkes (Psychology), John Kagel (Economics), Tim Haab (AED Economics),

Helen Pushkarskya (Post Doctoral Researcher).

Amount: $25,000

Title: Economic Growth and Local Environmental Policies

Investigators: David Kraybill (AED Economics), Hazel Morrow-Jones (City and Regional Planning), Alan Murray (Geography), Linda Lobao (Human and Community Resource Development).

Amount: $27,975

Title: Narrative risk communication for improving stakeholder involvement in environmental policy decisions

Investigator: Joe Arvai (School of Natural Resources)

Amount: $9,000

2000 Seed Grant Recipients:

Title: Understanding Lawn Chemical Application, Perception, and Behavior: Towards Nonpoints Source Water Pollution Policy

Investigator: Paul Robbins (Geography)

Amount: $21,500.00

Title: Linking Measures of Watershed Quality to Citizen Participation to Facilitate Watershed Protection

Investigators: Maria Manta Conroy, Assistant Professor, CRP; Steven Gordon, Professor, CRP

Amount: $10,300.00

1999 Seed Grant Recipients:

Title: Environmental Policy Implications of Ecosystem Management

Investigators: Tomas Koontz, Eric Norland, Emmalou Norland, Elizabeth Moore

Amount: $7,150

Title: Ecological and Economic Analysis of Natural Capital: Analyzing and Modeling the Substitutability of Constructed Wetlands for Natural Sites

Investigators: Fred Hitzhusen, William Mitsch, Siobhan Fennessy

Amount: $10,000

Title: Predicting Patterns of Land Use Change: a Spatial Model of Land Use Conversion

Investigator: Elena Irwin

Amount: $ 6,993

If you have any questions concerning the EPI or the Seed Grant Competition please email us at:epi@osu.edu.