The Science and Practice of Ecology & Society Award

 

The Science and Practice of Ecology & Society Award is an annual award given to the individual or organization that is the most effective in bringing transdisciplinary science on the interactions of ecology and society into practice. The year 2006 will be the inauguration of this award. Examples of a possible winner include, a high school teacher who develops a special curriculum, a mayor with initiatives and actions for her/his town based on scientific concepts, a journalist who brings the scientific insights to a broader audience, or a NGO group who facilitates local knowledge production of rural communities.

           

The motivation for this award is the recognition of the importance of practitioners who translate the scientific findings and insights of the scholarly community back and forth with practical applications. We want to identify championing practitioners so that their story can be an example for others.

 

The Award

The award consists of 1000 Euro and an article in Ecology and Society devoted to this person or organization. This article will be written by those who send in the nomination.

 

Who can be nominated?

Each person or organization who championed in making the link between transdisciplinary science and practice.

 

Who nominates?

Any academic scholar or group of academic scholars can nominate a person or organization. An accompanying letter will argue why this person or organization is an exemplary example of the interface of practice and science in the domain of ecology and society.

 

Where to submit nominations?

The deadline for nominations will be July 1, 2006. Nomination letters can be send, preferably electronically, to Dr. Marco Janssen, Email: Marco.Janssen@asu.edu. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402.