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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

Start Date

20/08/2018

Initial Projected Completion Date

24/11/2018