What are sprints?

The Agile Initiative responds to specific environmental policy questions with fast-paced solution-focused research that delivers new research precisely when it is needed. World-leading academic teams from across Oxford work closely with policy, industry, NGO and local collaborators to feed evidence-based responses to a single, key question into the policy cycle in real-time. These are ‘Sprints’.

Sprints offer a faster, more collaborative way of conducting research that breaks down the barriers between stakeholders and brings varied scientific disciplines together to deliver the best possible policy solutions to critical environmental challenges.

  • Sprint in focus

    How can we fireproof the Amazon?

    Forest fires are a relatively new issue in the Amazon – historically, the Amazon did not burn. This Sprint will conduct research in this crucial area, and work alongside decision makers to develop policies and practices required to fireproof the Amazon.

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