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Project Code [2018-SE-FS-5]
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Project title
Nurture nature:Assessing the role of civil-society as a change-agent in promoting environmental-awareness&sustainability through urban agriculture
Primary Funding Agency
Fulbright Commission of Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Environmental Protection Agency
Lead Organisation
Maynooth University (MU)
Lead Applicant
Mary P. Corcoran
Project Abstract
Professor Mary P. Corcoran is Head of the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Maynooth University. As a Fulbright-EPA scholar she will undertake research on how civil society groups in partnership with municipalities act as �change agents� to promote environmental stewardship and sustainability. Professor Corcoran will be based at the Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University.
Grant Approved
�11,500.00
Research Hub
Sustainability
Research Theme
Socio-Economic Considerations
Initial Projected Completion Date
24/11/2018