Global Environment and Trade Study Global Environment and Trade Study The Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) was a non-profit research institute established in 1994 to study the complex linkages between international trade and environmental sustainability. GETS supported numerous research projects on the legal, economic, and ecological aspects of trade and environment. GETS was centered at Yale University. GETS also studied the expanding role of civil society in global governance. In 2004, the GETS Board decided that a sufficient amount had been accomplished over the decade, and that it was time to terminate the project. GETS had four major accomplishments: The founders of GETS were:
Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry of the Association for Jewish Studies. The award is named after sociologist Marshall Sklare. Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) is a cross-disciplinary organization of individuals whose research concerns the Jewish people throughout the world. The ASSJ comprises primarily academics, but also policy analysts, communal professionals, and activists whose research concerns the Jewish people throughout the world. Social scientific disciplines represented include sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, demography, contemporary history, social work, political science, economics, and Jewish education. Members work throughout the world but primarily in North America,