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Pre-announcement of a joint NERC/AHRC/ESRC call on Managing the Environment to Improve Human health and wellbeing

Mar 30, 2015


The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), are planning a major new investment as part of the Valuing Nature Programme.

The new call will provide an opportunity for natural and social scientists, and arts and humanities researchers to form substantial interdisciplinary research collaborations which aim to increase understanding of the role biodiversity and ecosystem processes play in human health and wellbeing. The focus of the call will on the themes of:


• Natural hazards and extreme events;


• The exposure of people to vector-borne diseases and marine toxins;


• Health improvements associated with urban ecosystems.



Further details are available on the NERC website.



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