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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Title: Integrating Human Health and Well-Being with Ecosystem Services</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">URL:<span> </span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/research-grants/integrating-human-health-and-well-being-ecosystem-services" style="color:rgb(0,93,201);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.epa.gov/research-grants/integrating-human-health-and-well-being-ecosystem-services</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Open Date: 02/22/2016 - Close Date: 04/21/2016</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Summary:<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the release of the<span> </span><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.epa.gov/research-grants/integrating-human-health-and-well-being-ecosystem-services" style="color:rgb(0,93,201);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Integrating
Human Health and Well-Being with Ecosystem Services</a></span></i><span> </span>Request for Applications. This RFA’s goal is to fund community-based research that will foster better understanding of how human health and well-being
are interconnected with—and depend on—ecosystem services. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Specifically, this research examines how communities can integrate ecosystem services with human health and well-being to inform their decision making and management practices. This RFA
aims to develop information that allows communities to integrate environmental, societal and economic information and to better manage multiple stressors and their cumulative impacts on humans and ecosystems. The ultimate goal is to help communities achieve
their own objectives while taking advantage of more relevant and accessible information about ecosystem services.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The<span> </span><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Integrating Human Health and Well-Being with Ecosystems Services</span></i><span> </span>RFA
is part pf EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) Research program. The SHC program provides useful science and tools for decision makers at all levels to help communities advance sustainability as well as achieve regulatory compliance. SHC is collaborating
with partners to conduct research that will result in science-based knowledge to guide decisions that will better sustain a healthy society and environment in America's communities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Partnerships and community engagement are strongly encouraged for this research.</span></p>
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