
Marney Isaac
Assistant Professor
Contact Information:
Phone: (416) 287-7276
Office: SW517
Email: marney.isaac@utoronto.ca
Discipline: IDS and Environmental Science
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Research Interests & Work in Progress
- Environment and development
- plant nutrition and soil fertility
- agroecology
- social-ecological systems
- agrarian knowledge and social networks
Teaching Interests & Responsibilities
- Environment and Development
Awards & Grants
- Connaught Start-up Grant (2009-2010)
- 2009-2010 - SSHRC Research Development Funds (PI: S. Kant) $20,000.00
Program: Incentive mechanisms for the provision of ecosystem
services in Ontario
- 20082009 - NSERC PostDoctoral
Fellowship $40,000.00
Program: Productivity and sustainability in tropical agroforestry
systems: growth and competition of nutrient loaded cocoa seedlings
- 20052008 - NSERC PGS Research $21,000.00
- 20012003 - CIDA $16,500.00
Program: InCONCERT Program Research
Publications
- Isaac, M.E., E. Dawoe and K. Sieciechowicz (2009) Assessing localized knowledge use
in agroforestry management with cognitive maps. Environmental Management, 43: 13211329
- Isaac, M.E, B. Erickson, J. QuashieSam and V.R. Timmer (2007) Transfer
of knowledge on agroforestry management practices: the structure of informal
advice networks.Ecology and Society 12(2): 32
- Isaac, M.E., F. UlzenAppiah, V.R. Timmer and S.J. QuashieSam (2007) Early Growth
and nutritional response to resource competition in cocoa shade
intercropped systems. Plant and Soil 298: 243254.