Science for Nature and People Partnership
Overview
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Founded Since 1850
Company Description
Our Vision
SNAPP envisions a world where protecting and promoting nature works in concert with sustainable development and improving human well-being.
Our Mission
We deliver evidence-based, scalable solutions to global challenges at the intersection of nature conservation, sustainable development, and human well-being.
Our History
The Science for Nature and People Partnership was founded in 2013 as a first-of-its-kind collaboration between The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. WCS and TNC continue to grow the partnership and its contributions to a bright future for people and nature.
SNAPP selects its multidisciplinary teams through a rigorous proposal process, and then provides them with funding to cover neutral meeting spaces, travel, analytical, communications and facilitation support. Dedicated postdocs and research assistants may also be hired. These tangible incentives are the “enabling conditions” that allow a team of experts from a diversity of disciplines to convene around a specific global challenge at the intersection of conservation and human well-being.
SNAPP teams thus gain the time and space to 1) rapidly synthesize existing knowledge about a problem, and 2) deliver evidence-based, scalable solutions. These solutions (like policy recommendations and decision tools) can then be quickly adopted by governments, international business, and global NGOs, because high-level decision makers are embedded within SNAPP teams from the start.
Through this approach, SNAPP works to establish a world in which protecting and promoting nature works in concert with sustainable development and improving human well-being. Some examples of SNAPP successes can be explored via this “Story Map.”
If you are interested in creating solutions that benefit nature and people, please submit a working group proposal and send all inquiries to the email listed below.
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