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Collaborators

We collaborate with a wide range of groups and organizations. Here is a sample of them:


UVM-based Collaborators

The Gund Institute for Environment brings scholars and leaders together to accelerate research, uncover solutions and tackle the world's most pressing environmental issues. Taylor is the Director, and there are many overlaps and collaborations with our lab's work.

 

The UVM Food Systems Initiative encompasses a wide range of topics such as innovative production systems, environmental quality, entrepreneurship, human health and wellbeing, and nutrition

 

Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) is a global partnership – initially based at UVM and McGill University – that develops thought leaders for a new Ecozoic era.

 

The Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) works to improve health outcomes for all Vermont’s children and their families by using collaborative measurement-based efforts to strengthen public health systems.

 

Transdisciplinary group of faculty and their graduate students and postdocs who collaborate in analyzing, modeling, and understanding complex systems.

 

External Collaborators

Beyond the Academy is an international network of sustainability researchers united in a commitment to identify and overcome institutional barriers to making universities more supportive of applied interdisciplinary research with real-world impact.

 
 

The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center in Costa Rica (CATIE), is an international organization with a unique combination of science, postgraduate education and innovation for development.

 
 

The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a unique collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading internationally-focused biodiversity conservation organizations clustered in and around Cambridge, UK.

 

EfD support poverty alleviation and sustainable development through the increased use of environmental economics in the policy making process.

 

A USDA-funded consortium to investigate and enhance native pollinators for U.S. crops.

 

The Intervale is an urban agricultural landscape and center that are transforming the food system from one that is degrading, anonymous and industrial, to one that is restorative, familiar and human-scale. 

 

An NGO-University partnership to map ecosystem services, estimate their value to people, and apply this information to improve decisions.

 

The Nature Conservancy has protects land across Vermont to create a landscape where where people and nature thrive.

 

The Nature Record is a national initiative bringing together knowledge, storytelling, and public participation to elevate the role of nature in the U.S.

 

A consortium of over 70 dedicated universities, NGOs, government entities, research institutes, and other partners around the world committed to advancing planetary health.

 

Root Capita's mission is to grow rural prosperity and build the resilience of farming families around the world.

 

Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future.

 

Since 1977, the Vermont Land Trust has protected farmland and forestland from subdivision and development.

 

Leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species.