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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.