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    1.     » Center for Ocean Solutions
    2.     » Food Security & the Environment
    3.     » Natural Capital Project
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    2.     » Carbon Offsets
    3.     » Climate Change
    4.     » Pacific Salmon
    5.     » U.S. Farm Bill
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Problem-Solving Areas

• Assessing and protecting ecosystem services
• Conservation on farms, ranches and other working landscapes
• Private land conservation
• Sustainable agriculture
• Land restoration
• Food production and security

Woods-Sponsored Research Projects

• Food Security & the Environment. This joint project of the Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is looking at the key issues of predicting the environmental impact of increased global demand for protein and the impact on food security.
• Natural Capital Project. The Natural Capital Project seeks a future in which conservation is mainstream-that is, economically attractive and common-place through out the world. It is being conducted jointly by Stanford, The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund.
• Environmental Venture Projects/Land-Use & Conservation. EVPs provide seed funding for promising, potentially transformative research involving interdisciplinary teams of Stanford faculty. Topics include comparative urban growth patterns across the Pacific Rim; feasibility of reintroducing the Checkerspot Butterfly to Stanford lands.

Related Programs and Projects

• Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West. Founded in 2002, the Center is a home for interdisciplinary teaching, research, and collaboration among scholars, writers, journalists, and public policy professionals who study the West, i.e., the U.S. west of the Mississippi, plus western Canada and northern Mexico.
• Carnegie Institution, Department of Global Ecology (at Stanford). The Carnegie Institution is a private organization that conducts basic research for the benefit of humanity. Its Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic research on the interactions among the earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans.
• Center for Conservation Biology was established by Paul Ehrlich in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University in 1984. Its mission is to promote human well-being by developing a scientific basis for managing Earth's life-support systems and helping arrest environmental deterioration.
• Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program. This leading education and research program is located in the Stanford Law School.
• Hawai'i Ecosystems Project. This research consortium involving Stanford University and the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station) unites researchers worldwide who study questions in forest ecology, ecosystem restoration, soil science, atmospheric chemistry, isotope geochemistry, and related fields at a variety of Hawai'i sites.
• Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry.
• Sustainable Food Production in Yaqui Valley, Mexico. This project looks at how to reduce fertilizer and water use while maintaining crop yields; impact of aquaculture; how not to undermine the valley's environment; structure of national and international policies to encourage sustainability.