5^th Annual SPEA Young Researchers Conference
Student Paper Awards
Sponsors and Descriptions
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Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC)
Award: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Amount: $100

Papers should address an aspect of human dimensions of global environmental change.  These papers may investigator topics such as: land use and land cover change, climate change, the relationship between land use and cover change and vulnerable and at-risk populations, the relationships between property rights and environmental conditions, or the impact of public policy on environmental change.  Submissions addressing other aspects of human dimensions of global environmental change are encouraged.  Research may be theoretical or empirical.  Empirically based studies may be at the local, regional, or global scales, or multiple scales, but all authors should place their research within the global context.  

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Environmental Science Faculty Member
Award: Environmental Science and Policy Research Award
Amount: $100

To be eligible for this award, the paper should address research in some aspect of environmental science or environmental policy.  Both empirical and theoretical papers will be accepted.  

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Institute for Development Strategies
Award: Economic Development
Amount: $100

The paper should address an aspect of economic development at the city, regional, national or international levels.  The paper may investigate topics such as globalization, entrepreneurship, strategic management, innovation, competitiveness, industrialization and their linkages to economic development.   Submissions that address other aspects of economic development are also encouraged.  

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Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Award: Institutional Analysis and Development
Amount: $100

This award will be open to papers that apply institutional analysis to a particular problem and undertake an analysis of how combinations of rules, the structure of the good and technology involved, and culture interact to affect the incentives facing individuals and resulting patterns of interactions adopted by individuals.  The focus may be either a type of problem (such as that of providing a particular type of public good or common-pool resource) or a type of decision-making arrangement (such as that of a legislature, a court, or a self-organized collectivity).  Furthermore, the paper may focus on an operational, collective choice, or constitutional choice level, but the linkage among these levels should be addressed.  

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Center on Philanthropy
Award: Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy and Volunteering
Amount: $100

To be eligible for this award, the paper should address an aspect of the nonprofit sector.  Papers may investigate such topics as philanthropy, giving, volunteering, nonprofit management, or nonprofit organizations in general.   Papers can be either empirical or theoretical.  

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