Areas of Concentration (AOCs)

There are ten categories we are calling Areas of Concentration (AOCs). On this page we have listed a few links under each of the AOCs to seed your thinking. But we encourage you to share links of your own. Please visit the BLOG we've created for this purpose. On the BLOG you will be able to post comments, including links, resources, comments, etc, that you think are worth sharing with fellow researchers.

To view descriptions of these categories (AOCs), click here.
To view a selection of AOC resources suggested to us by UCSD's librarians, click here.

To view students projects organized by AOC, click here

1. Architecture and Urban Design
2. Community and Economic Development
3. Education
4. Environment
5. Health Care
6. Housing
7. Real Estate Development
8. Social Services and Policy Analysis
9. Transportation and Infrastructure
10. Urban and Regional Planning

*Requests for Proposals (RFPs) posted by granting agencies

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1. Architecture and Urban Design

Making Places: News and Thoughts about Public Spaces
Public Markets Edition
http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/october2005
Feature Story:
The Great Revival of Public Markets
America's future may be small vendors as much as big boxes. PPS's upcoming Public Markets Conference examines how the next generation of markets is emerging as a viable alternative to conventional development projects like convention centers or big-box retail. http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/october2005/market_revival
A New Kind of Market Economics, Three ambitious projects launch low-income entrepreneurs on the road to success. http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/october2005/markets_economic_development
P roject for Public Spaces http://www.pps.org

Scripps Park Project:
Neil Murray is a member of a fifteen person advisory group, the Scripps Park Project, which is working to develop and implement a long-term plan for Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Park (the Cove).  Their efforts have been endorsed by the Mayor and Scott Peters, the district Councilperson.  Their group also has representatives from all of La Jolla's major planning groups and the City's committee for the disabled.  You could find out more by checking out their website, scrippspark.com.  At present, they have two recently-formed committees that are gathering pertinent information to be used by a professional park planning consultanting firm, Campbell and Campbell, in preparing for and conducting a public workshop, as yet unscheduled.  The two committees have to do with the Cultural Landscape and Usage Patterns.  Neil Murray is chairing the latter and another SPP member chairs the former.  Contact person: "Neil Murray" <nmurray1@san.rr.com>

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Innovative Design: Behind the Design Scenes at Ikea:
Wednesday, Nov.2, 2005, Dii and Ikea are cosponsoring "Behind the Design Scenes at Ikea." The event will feature five Ikea designers via live video teleconference, who will reveal their abilities to design within price parameters and re-engineering skills. The Swedish moderator is a graphic designer who will talk about the democratization of design in Sweden. A tour will follow with presentations of innovative designs, the designers, and the design process. And there will be Swedish food and gifts for all and a raffle of designer products that are showcased on the tour. There is a $10 registration fee. Click here for more info.
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Urban design and planning in Barcelona, Spain: Lessons from history (Cerda Exhibit, photo gallery)

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2. Community and Economic Development

Center on Policy Initiatives http://www.onlinecpi.org/ The Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) is a nonprofit research, organizing and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of the working poor by building a movement for economic justice in San Diego. They conduct a lot of interesting research <http://www.onlinecpi.org/publications.html>. The CPI’s work on “Community Benefits Agreement (CBA)” would be a great topic for a SRP. On September 20, 2005 an unprecedented CBA was reached between Ballpark Village LLC (Lennar and JMI Realty, Inc) and A Community Coalition for Responsible Development (ACCoRD). A CBA is the result of negotiations between the developer and the community, commonly represented by various grassroots community organizations, that identifies how a proposed development project can benefit residents and workers in neighboring communities. Once the CBA is finalized and the development project is approved by city officials, the CBA becomes a legal document that is part of the city's agreement with the developer. It would be good to document how this CBA came together in San Diego. How does the San Diego case compare to similar efforts around the country. See http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050926-9999-1m26ballpark.html#

UPZONING Research opportunity regarding profits from upzoning land use (developers gain profit when they get farmland upzoned for new subdivisions). Don Wood is interested in legislation that can capture some of the value created by upzoning (divert some of the financial gain realized by increased land value away from the developers and toward funds for public sector urban core infrastructure improvements). If you are interested in this initiative read these two documents: SmartGrowthBill and ZoningTransationTaxQAs. If you want to contact Don Wood, he can be reached at dwood8@cox.net

Invisible Planning Compared:  A Tale of Two Cities A historic analysis of the National Archives files relating to the redlining of East St. Louis will be conducted and contrasted with San Diego.  This study will examine the residential controls used in segregating blacks, Jews, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, and Mexicans from white neighborhoods and the resulting policies of systematic urban disinvestment (see "Making the Invisible Visible", by Leonie Sandercock). Contact person: Richard Marciano, marciano@sdsc.edu

Inequitable Taxation and Native American Nations in San Diego Region
SBRP Tribal Partner Mike Connolly Miskwish (Councilmember, Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians) is looking for undergraduates who are interested in researching the extent to which Native nations in the County generate tax revenue (primarily sales tax) that the County receives but never returns to the tribes. In California, Native nations receive 0% of the sales tax, which is interesting considering Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s declaration that gaming tribes “need to pay their fair share” back to the state. What about what the state owes them? This is of particular importance from a research perspective since tribes in Nevada and New Mexico do receive a portion of such taxes (around 25% and 40%, respectively). What is the reasoning behind this policy? Is it related to the fact that, by comparison to New Mexico and Nevada, California’s Native American population is much smaller and exercises less political influence over the legislature? Or is this policy in fact, reasonable, just, and equitable? If Native tribes do generate taxes that are used by City and County governments to fund environmental protection projects (among other things), could some of that revenue be returned to the tribes to be used for their own such projects? Mr. Connolly has informed us that he has documents and reports (most available via the Internet) that students could use to research this issue.

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3. Education

Native American Traditions and Vireo Habitat Restoration: Ecological Field Experiments in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Click here for proposal by Jared Aldern. Founded in 2004 and directed by the author of this proposal, The Land Conversation, Inc. (TLC) is an organization that helps to restore ecosystems and revitalize languages and cultures.   In July 2004, TLC received funds for its Traditional Land Management Research Program from the Blasker-Rose-Miah Fund and the Colonel Frank C. Wood Fund at the San Diego Foundation. The purposes of this research program are to investigate traditional human-environment interactions as windows into historical ecology, and to apply traditional practices as methods for ecological restoration. The Land Conversation proposes a five-year program to enhance habitat in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park’s San Felipe Valley property for the State and Federally endangered least Bell’s vireo (Vireo belli pusillus) using innovative methods – namely, by reintroducing indigenous people’s interactions with willows (Salix spp.) and other plants. The program offers other potential benefits, as well, including increased collaboration between State Parks and tribal agencies, new educational opportunities, and a demonstration of the integration of ecological restoration with indigenous cultural and linguistic revitalization. Jared Aldern, Executive Director, The Land Conversation, Inc. email:  jaldern@sctdv.net , http://www.thelandconversation.org

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4. Environment

UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) Research Translation Core: http://superfund.ucsd.edu/research_translation/index.html The Research Translation Core (RTC) of UC San Diego's Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) has four specific aims: (1) Build partnerships with government agencies and Tribal science labs to advance the practical contributions of toxicogenomics in environmental policy and planning; (2) Evaluate the utility of molecular biomarkers/biosensors, microtechnologies and bioremediation as new biological models/methods for improving environmental monitoring, risk assessment and remediation; (3) Organize technology showcases, entrepreneurs/innovators forums and educational workshops to foster the commercial development and utilization of innovative SBRP technologies; and (4) Communicate complex research findings to broad audiences through periodic workshops; symposia; participation in regional, national and international conferences; publications, and Web-based systems. The broad long-term objective is to apply toxicogenomic knowledge and biomolecular technologies to real-life problems concerning hazardous substances and environmental health. You can do a SRP that adds value to the RTC in a number of ways. Biomarkers developed by SBRP scientists need to be evaluated, in partnership with the San Diego Baykeeper, Tribal labs and government agencies responsible for water quality monitoring, as potentially effective new cellular and analytic tools for detecting Superfund toxicants in contaminated watersheds. At the same time, SBRP-industry partnerships need to be established to promote the experimental development and commercialization of novel bioremediation technologies (e.g., transgenic plants that can hyper-accumulate heavy metals out of contaminated soil), and microtechnologies (e.g., labs-on-a-chip that can be used as biosensors for detecting exposure to pesticides). We are looking for students who would like to document the extent to which the “new biology” is being used in environmental monitoring in San Diego. We also need students to study the technology transfer process that gets UCSD science out into the real world –particularly in ways the improve environmental conditions. Contact info: Keith Pezzoli, kpezzoli@ucsd.edu

Establishing a "Health-based" Approach to Environmental Mitigation: The goal is to help develop a model for environmental mitigation in the San Diego River Watershed that will benefit citizen monitoring groups and American Indian groups whose lands are increasingly coming under pressure. We will build a historical database of mitigation and permitting data to allow for temporal and spatial queries on 12 years worth of critical urban and permitting data. The student will help analyze, and build interfaces to this strategic data, which will be correlated with quality of life data in the San Diego River Watershed.  This approach departs from a strictly permit and process driven approach to environmental mitigation and tries to promote the cumulative beneficial uses of the environment. Contact person: Richard Marciano, marciano@sdsc.edu

Sustainable Development Initiative (Industrial Environmental Association, IEA) The IEA has a new initiative underway to get industry, government and community groups working together around issues of “sustainable development.” The focus is on what business leaders can do. The IEA “promotes environmental responsibility through effective communication and interaction with our members, government, regulatory agencies, business and the community. We use proven technology, scientific methods and common sense to achieve a beneficial relationship between environmental protection, public health and economically sustainable growth. http://www.ieasdc.org/ They have a number of interesting projects. They also want help organizing a Climate Change workshop, for which they will take on an intern from October through December 14. Contact Patti Krebs <iea@iea.sdcoxmail.com Phone:  619-544-9684

Watershed planning support systems (RWBC Project)
Carlsbad watershed/ Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation nature center (RWBC Project)
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and regulatory innovation (RWBC Project pdf file)
Industrial ecology (RWBC project)
San Diego River Park Foundation (RWBC Project)
Land Trusts, Conservancies, and Biological Diversity Conservation (Conservation Biology Institute)

The Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability, Click this link for a great
series of monthly updates informing the community of new items on the Forum's
web site (http://sustainabilityscience.org).

Laureles Canyon erosion control project, and the Matadero Canyon conservation park, (RWBC project)
Los Laureles Canyon is a small 4.6 mile sub-watershed of the Tijuana River Watershed. It is located only about 1-2 miles from the coast and 90% of the watershed lies in Mexico. This sub-basin is of particular interest and concern as it flows directly into the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (TRNERR) and is a significant source of sediment in the south end of the Estuary. Over time, this sub-basin has become increasingly developed and degraded, and lacks the basic infrastructure to support this development. Representatives from agencies in Mexico and the United States will work together on a community based slope stabilization and erosion control project located within Los Laureles Canyon, under the scope of the TRNERR’s new Coastal Training Program (CTP). This project aims to restore Los Laureles Canyon, to prevent sedimentation into the Tijuana River Valley, and offer quality passive recreation for the residents of Tijuana through numerous goals and objectives. This trans-border effort will promote a sustainable approach to the erosion control problem, achieving success in the environmental and social realms.

Tribal opportunities written by Professor David Pellow (Ethnic Studies Dept.)

Toxic Inequalities in Louisiana
There is a great need to understand the link between social inequality (particularly race, ethnicity, class, and native nation) and toxic pollution in Louisiana. The field of environmental justice studies has established that these two variables are often linked in what is called environmental inequality and environmental racism. That is, communities that are predominantly populated by people of color, low income and working class persons, immigrants, and indigenous groups are more likely than others to live in close proximity to pollution generating facilities (heavy industry, landfills, waste incinerators, etc.). Scholars have documented this relationship in Louisiana as well, since the state has 1) a long history of racial and class inequalities via slavery and Jim Crow, immigration, and a significant Native American presence; and 2) a high density of petrochemical industrial facilities and other toxic release inventory sites [TRI] that produce enormous volumes of pollution (for example, see Barbara Allen. 2003. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor Disputes. MIT Press; Steve Lerner. 2005. Diamond: A Struggle for Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor. MIT Press; Timmons Roberts and Melissa Toffolon-Weiss. 20001. Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Front Line. Cambridge University Press). We would like one or more students to conduct research on the historical and contemporary environmental justice terrain of the state, and link that to both the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the more general question of natural and un-natural disaster preparedness. There is a large literature in the sociology of disasters, which might also come in handy (see Dennis Mileti. Disasters by Design).

Historical and Contemporary Environmental Practices of the Campo Band of Kumeyaay
We are looking for students interested in conducting archival and oral historical research on the Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians in East San Diego County. This is a community with a rich history of resistance and independence from the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. colonial powers since their first encounter with Europeans in 1769. Despite land grabs, treaty violations and deceitful practices (by the California legislature in particular), and a host of environmental threats, the Campo have survived. Students are need to perform archival research on the Campo and oral history interviews with Campo tribal members that would examine traditional land use, cultural and environmental practices relating the natural resource management and ecological preservation. There is a growing literature on Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) systems among indigenous peoples and this project would allow researchers to develop a more complete and in-depth map of such a system among the Campo. More fully documented TEK systems allow tribes to amplify their voices in policy making around development projects that might impact the integrity of tribal lands, for example.

Traditional Environmental Knowledge among the Coahuilla Nation
We are seeking students who are interested in conducting an oral history project that would document Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) among members of the Coahuilla nation in Southern California. The major outcome of this project would be to complement Western scientific approaches to environmental problems with TEK for the purpose of setting up and strengthening the Coahuilla nation’s Tribal Environmental Protection Agency. The purpose of documenting TEK is not to challenge Western scientific knowledge paradigms (although this certainly might be one outcome), but rather to find the points of integration and complementarity between the two epistemologies (ways of knowing). Tribes have a real need for negotiating the line between Western science and traditional practices because both are helpful for analyzing environmental problems and developing solutions, but also because both represent political, cultural, and economic realities that tribes cannot afford to ignore. See the following URL for a number of sources concerning traditional practices among the Coahuilla people (particular ethno-botany): http://www.americanindian.ucr.edu/references/bibliographies/cahuilla.html

Environmental Threats to the Campo Band’s Land
We are seeking students interested in conducting research that would examine a range of environmental threats to the lands of the Campo Band of the Kumeyaay Indians. In recent years, Campo leaders have made it know that they are facing problems such as illegal dumping of methamphetamine laboratory wastes, illegal solid waste dumping (also known as fly dumping), hazardous waste run off from transportation systems, and other impacts from development projects. While many of San Diego County’s Native lands have historically been considered rural, increasingly the distance between San Diego’s urban/suburban and rural communities has decreased significantly as sprawl and commercial development push further into formerly rural areas. Using government documents, spatial, historical, and other forms of data, students can document visually and textually the growing threats to Campo land and offer prescriptions for addressing these problems. Laguna Resources, Inc. and the Kumeyaay/Diegueno Unity Organization are two groups that have asked for assistance from researchers to examine these concerns.

Environmental Challenges to San Diego’s Tribal Communities
Students interested in a broader, County-wide approach to environmental concerns facing San Diego native communities might consider gathering data on environmental threats to any number of tribes in the region. This might include an examination of various development projects, illegal dumping practices, and the location of toxic facilities such as superfund sites and landfills, etc. and their spatial correlation with Native lands. One related concern is the impact of habitat conservation plans on tribal communities. While many ecologists in San Diego County hold these plans up as models of species protection and preservation, some tribal leaders report that the plans often have a negative impact on their own ability to engage in economic and infrastructural development projects to meet the needs of their members. Furthermore, as non-tribal development continues to expand throughout the county (i.e., sprawl), developers often view the protection of Native lands as potential “mitigation projects” whereby they can claim they are preserving green space and critical habitats in order to balance out the effect of the damage caused by the development projects. This creates intense pressures on tribal leaders who may need the land for their own purposes. To what extent is this happening with any regularity and what can be done to meet the needs of conservationists, tribal communities, and (perhaps) developers? To what extent are San Diego’s tribal communities confronting environmental inequalities?

Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), call for papers

Campus GIS, and Campus Greening, UCSD Campus Planning

June 2000 Binational Conference on Environmental Research and Policy

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5. Health

Improving Public Health and Well-Being in Vulnerable Populations
We will explore the connections between social (in)justice and environmental health outcomes of interest to the NIEHS, trying to relate health-disparities to patterns of exclusionary housing in the city of New Orleans. For example... in http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-102.html, the role of gene-environmental interactions underlying the hearlth disparity of premature birth is discussed: "The majority of the health disparity of premature birth is commonly associated with racial and ethnic groups living under the burden of adverse societal, behavioral, and environmental conditions.  These adverse factors include low social and economic status, racism, stress, sexually transmitted disease, tobacco/alcohol/drug use, and exposure to environmental toxins. Epidemiological studies indicate that over half of this health disparity can be attributed to these adverse conditions." The analysis will proceed from the historic redlining files of the National Archives and connect to work in the SBRP at UCSD with linkages Potential connections with David Pellow's proposed study on "Toxic Inequalities in Louisiana -- Disasters by Design". Contact person: Richard Marciano, marciano@sdsc.edu

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Author Wins Humanitarian Award
Partners In Health (PIH), an innovative health care leader for poor societies, will receive the 2005 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize of $1.5 million, the world's largest prize. Much of PIH's work has been conceived and implemented by co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. UC Press is honored to have published several of Farmer's books, including AIDS and Accusation, Pathologies of Power, and the forthcoming Swords of Sorrow: Modern Violence and the Meaning of Life. Farmer spoke with Executive Editor Naomi Schneider about his family background, his activism, and public health work in Haiti in an interview in 2003.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9875/9875.auint.html

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NIEHS and American Public Health Association
Sponsor Program Linking Built Environment and Public Health In an effort to better understand the linkage between community design and its impact on public health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, in conjunction with the American Public Health Association's Built Environment Institute, is sponsoring a three-day program titled "Health by Design: Identifying Approaches For Building Sustainable Environments That Actively Improve Human Health."
Check out this database for research ideas concerning health and the build environment: https://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/portfolio/sc/list.cfm?code=95
And this database for research ideas on health and enviornmental justice: https://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/portfolio/sc/list.cfm?code=93

US-Mexico Border Health Commission data integration and mapping initiative, http://teldev5.telesis.org
Superfund Basic Research Program, http://superfund.ucsd.edu/

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6. Housing

Colonias and community-based development (RWBC Project)
San Diego Neighborhood Studies Project, http://qolsandiego.net/sdnp/Index.html
HCD defined on the RWBC glossary, essay by Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell
Historical Redlining in San Diego (RWBC Project)

Bratt, Rachel G., Michael E. Stone and Chester W. Hartman. 2006. A right to housing: foundation for a new social agenda. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Hartman, Chester W. 2002. Between eminence and notoriety: four decades of radical urban planning. New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research.

Hartman, Chester W., Sarah Carnochan and Chester W. Hartman. 2002. City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

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7. Real Estate Development

egolob@email.arizona.edu

 

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8. Social Services and Policy Analysis

Broadband (building cyberinfrastructure for the 21 st Century)
John Eger (Professor and Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy Executive Director, International Center for Communications) is exploring the prospects of making broadband internet access more readily available throughout the San Diego metropolitan area. What is the public vs privates sector’s role in building the broadband superhighway? This is a great project involving cyberinfrastructure policy: (see the articles below for details)
http://www.envisionsandiego.org/Creative%20Community%20Journal.html
http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2005.05.22-94066
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/95065
http://webdocs.nyccouncil.info/attachments/66683.htm?CFID=622238&CFTOKEN=80343337
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0508/

Digital Divide Study
John Kim, Ph.D. is a member of an organization that brings free wireless networks to low-income neighborhoods. The organization very recently installed a free wireless network in a housing project in Barrio Logan ( San Diego), and it's still in testing phase. John would like someone to study/document the economic and/or social effects of such networks on low-income neighborhoods? He’d like to better understand how low-income families are affected (or not) by the availability of free high-speed Internet. The housing project is administered by http://maacproject.org/ and the wireless group is http://socalfreenet.org. John Kim, Ph.D. (619) 594-2896    jkim@sciences.sdsu.edu     http://fs.sdsu.edu/ SDSU Field Station Programs: Supporting the Collection, Sharing & Understanding of Environmental Information

 

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9. Transportation and Infrastructure

SANDAG, the regional planning agency for transportation: SANDAG allocates millions of dollars each year in local, state, and federal funds for the region's transportation network. SANDAG develops the Regional Transportation Plan to implement a long-range vision for buses, the Trolley, rail, highways, major streets, bicycle travel, walking, goods movement, and airport services (link to SANDAG projects).
*Cal(IT)2 Transportation Initiative, click here

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10. Urban and Regional Planning

Regional Comprehensive Planning (RWBC Project)
Regional Planning Chronologies (RWBC Project)
Land Trusts, Conservancies, and Biological Diversity Conservation (Conservation Biology Institute)
RWBC's KINDRED Project (Knowledge-based Integration and Navigation of Distributed Regional Environmental Data) Information Technology Research in Support of Integrated Regional Planning.

Policy statement by the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, click here (pdf file)

Blurred Borders: A report released by the International Community Foundation
Blurred Borders highlights the similarities, the inter-connections and the challenges that San Diego and Tijuana share, addressing the wide range of community based issues in what has become the largest binational metropolitan area in North America. Of particular interest is how the proximity of the border impacts the lives and livelihoods of poor and under-served communities in both San Diego County and the municipality of Tijuana as well as what can be done to address their growing needs. (link ot pdf file)

San Diego region Quality of Life (QOL) project, indicators and mapping service, http://qolsandiego.net

Planning and decision-support systems development (RWBC PROJECTS)
(3D Regional Canvas of the Californias, Web-based visualization, On-line interactive mapping/ knowledge management, and infocartography)


Urban tree coverage mapping initiative/ City of San Diego, click here for internship opportunity

RWBC Web Development Narratives (RWBC Project)
Urban Simulation Modeling, recommended site

Governance, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/programs/doctoral/ppd/conference/

PROJECT: A study on the City of Calexico’s current planning issues
During the past ten years, productive farm land in and around the city of Calexico has seen a change of ownership from farmers to land speculators and developers. The city of Calexico is currently updating its General Plan and projecting to expand its Sphere of Influence Boundary. The process to date has been driven by the desires of the land speculators and developers. Thorough and cohesive planning is necessary to ensure a logical outcome for the city of Calexico and its citizens. This study will attempt to evaluate Calexico’s proposed Sphere of Influence Boundary change based on recognized land use planning criteria. Specifically this study will evaluate the benefits of growing east towards the new International Port of Entry (also referred as the Gateway of the Americas) versus “sprawling” north along State Highway 111. The study should produce a cost benefit analysis to the city comparing the two different development options. As part of that cost benefit analysis, the study should include an evaluation of the cities ability to provide the infrastructure for the potential development in either direction. Furthermore, the study will need to provide an analysis of tax revenue loss to the city if industrial and commercial development occurs at the new port of entry versus in development just east of Calexico. Furthermore, the study should also evaluate the potential costs to the city of Calexcio that could result from the proposed development at the East Port of Entry (for instance, increase of traffic on city roads.)
CONTACT: Roxanne Eady Didham: Developer, Farmer and Land Owner Cell: 619-787-2332; Home: 619-296-4646 Email: Didham@cox.net Internship: position is available

 

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Requests for Proposals by major granting agencies

NSF Workshop: Understanding Urban Systems (on-line version)
click here for a link to the same document in pdf format

Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) NSF Program Solicitation
The Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) program supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of how individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements contribute to functioning, effectiveness and innovation in organizations. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, nonprofit, and/or voluntary organizations or inter-organizational arrangements. IOC-funded research must be relevant to an operational or applied context, grounded in theory and generalizable. IOC-supported research should ordinarily combine theory with empirical validation. Projects that use functioning organizations as data sources or testbeds are encouraged. Projects that develop or build on research perspectives that cross disciplinary lines are also encouraged. For the February 2006 competition, proposals pertinent to effective organization and management of scientific efforts that involve shared technological resources, particularly cyberinfrastructure resources, will be of special interest. IOC research might draw on theories and finding from fields including, but not limited to, organization theory, organizational behavior, industrial engineering, industrial/organizational psychology, organizational sociology, risk management, public administration, computer science, information science and management science. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including archival analyses, surveys, field studies, simulations, case studies, organization simulation modeling, laboratory studies and social network analysis.

Department of Housing and Urban Development, Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for
the Research on the Socio-Economic, Change in Cities, Fiscal Year 2002. This file has some ideas
for research projects on pages 14835-14836, click here.