Valuing the Arc (£74,875, Leverhulme Trust)

Project: Other projectResearch collaboration

Project Details

Description

The goal was to improve knowledge of the ecosystem services provided by the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, and of their contribution to human welfare, and to find solutions to managing these services in a sustainable way. In doing so, the research aimed to provide critical information to policy-makers in Tanzania and contribute to the wider field of ecosystem services research.

Valuing the Arc is an international, collaborative, research programme, involving experts from: five UK-based universities (University of Cambridge; University of East Anglia; University ofYork; University of Leeds; and, Cranfield University); two Tanzanian universities (University of Dar es Salaam and Sokoine University of Agriculture); the WWF Tanzania Programme Office; and, the Natural Capital Project in the USA, through WWF-US.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/01/0730/06/08