Social and Environmental Research Institute

Can you list me the on going and completed Projects of Social and Environmental Research Institute?

[Arun Vats]

The on going and completed Projects of Social and Environmental Research Institute are as follows:

Current Projects

Role of private business in civic dialogues for sustainability

Sustainability decision landscape

A Working Group on Climate Change Impacts on Shellfishing in Wellfleet Harbor: Case study of Climate Change and Atlantic Fisheries Project

Promoting climate change awareness and adaptive planning in Atlantic fisheries communities using participatory vulnerability analysis, mapping, and systems dynamic modeling

Improving understandings of consequences, vulnerabilities, and adaptation strategies to climate change related hazards

Examining predictors of public action in response to climate change

A communicative approach to understanding the association between procedural performance and legitimacy of outcomes

Long-term health effects, risk perceptions, and implications for agricultural markets: modeling consumption patterns for aquacultured seafood

Addressing public health risks from operating and closed US nuclear weapons facilities

Completed Projects
Informing coastal management adaptation planning and decision making for climate change using an interactive risk-based vulnerability assessment tool.

A Participatory Approach to Building a Systems-Based Understanding of the Vulnerability of Commercial Fishermen to Workplace Hazards

Disaster Resilience in Rural Communities

Characterizing harmful behavior of divers and snorkelers to coral reefs in Puerto Rico through systematic observation and testing the effectiveness of pre-trip media-based interventions.

Social disruption from oil spills and spill response.

Case study of the long-term human impact, vulnerabilities, and resilience of Cordova, Alaska 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

A risk-based approach to rapid vulnerability assessment in New England fishery communities

Three evaluative tools to empower local communities in the environmental clean up of sediment contaminated sites

Assessment of Oil Spill Response Planning and Performance

Relationships among preferences for process, preferences for outcomes, perceptions of context, and individual characteristics in environmental and risk decision-making

Evaluating public involvement processes by combining perspectives from planners, participants, and normative theory

Process and outcome evaluation of the sustainable rural community development project in Vermont

Social and ecological transferability of integrated ecological assessment models

The role of social networks in the formation of risk perceptions about low dose radiation risks

Factors influencing participation of local government officials in environmental policy making and implementation

Contact Detail:
Social and Environmental Research Institute
664 Main St.
Suite 47
Amherst, MA 01002

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Hey, I want to get detail about the Social and Environmental Research Institute , will you give me detail abut the Social and Environmental Research Institute?

[Arun Vats]

Social and Environmental Research Institute conducts researches which emphasizing topics related to discursive approaches to policy and social relations to the environment.

Research themes:
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND DECISION MAKING

HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF RISK AND ENVIRONMENT

VULNERABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Current Projects:

A Working Group on Climate Change Impacts on Shellfishing in Wellfleet Harbor: Case study of Climate Change and Atlantic Fisheries Project

Promoting climate change awareness and adaptive planning in Atlantic fisheries communities using participatory vulnerability analysis, mapping, and systems dynamic modeling

Sustainability decision landscape

Contact detail:
Social and Environmental Research Institute
Seth Tuler: 413-387-9320
Tom Webler: 413-387-9717