Research Committee
The EfD Research Committee takes overall responsibility for screening and selecting research projects. The main criteria used are the potential to impact policy, academic value, and the use of environmental and natural resource economics.
The main criteria for EfD research are that the research should have the potential to impact policy with respect to environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation, that it should be academically interesting, and that environmental and natural resource economics should form a crucial role in illuminating the issue studied.
The main responsibility for ensuring that research meets these criteria lies with the individual researchers, but the EfD programme also has a research committee which takes overall responsibility for screening and selecting research projects.
Selection in two steps
The selection of EfD research projects is done in two steps. Researchers at the EfD centers can submit a brief proposal of less than one page where they outline a potential research project. Assuming that the project meets the criteria for EfD research, the research committee then gives the go ahead for developing a full research proposal and suggests potential international collaborators.
The full research proposal describes the proposed project, the policy background and academic background to the proposed project, as well as the anticipated outputs in terms of policy briefs, workshops, and academic papers. After a full proposal is submitted, the research committee may then approve the proposal as it is or request modifications. Once a proposal has been approved, it is incorporated in the center’s research plan.
The Research Committee consists of:
Chair: Professor Thomas Sterner, who has an overall responsibility for the direction of the EfD research.
Research officer: Dr Menale Kassie
EfD Director: Associate Professor Gunnar Köhlin
