The LUMS Social Enterprise Development Centre (SEDC) is working towards capacity building of social enterprises since 2001. Its priority areas include governance, education, health, gender, and micro-finance/poverty reduction.

SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks.

Entre los fines de la SEHA está fomentar la investigación, el intercambio de opiniones, la enseñanza y la divulgación del conocimiento científico referentes a la historia agraria y a la economía y la sociedad rurales, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria.

Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo

A SOBER é uma Sociedade Científica, Cultural e Educacional que tem o objetivo de desenvolver as ciências sociais rurais (Administração, Economia, Extensão, Comunicação e Sociologia Rural), e suas correlatas.

  A SOBER é uma Sociedade Científica, Cultural e Educacional que tem o objetivo de desenvolver as ciências sociais rurais (Administração, Economia, Extensão, Comunicação e Sociologia Rural), e suas correlatas.

A SOCIEDADE Brasileira de Estudos do Oitocentos (SEO) é pessoa jurídica de direito privado, sem fins lucrativos, com prazo de duração indeterminado, e número ilimitado de associados. Tem por objeto o incentivo à pesquisa, a divulgação e o ensino da História Moderna e Contemporânea, no período de 1750 a 1930, bem como seus campos afins.

Incorporated in 1988, the Society for Ecological Restoration is a global community of restoration professionals that includes researchers, practitioners, decision-makers, and community leaders from Africa, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, and the Americas.

The Society for Range Management is the professional scientific society and conservation organization whose members are concerned with studying, conserving, managing and sustaining the varied resources of the rangelands which comprise nearly half the land in the world. Established in 1948, SRM has over 4,000 members in 48 countries, including many developing nations.

SSAR, a not-for-profit (registered 501(c)3) organization established to advance research, conservation, and education concerning amphibians and reptiles, was founded in 1958. It is the largest international herpetological society, and is recognized worldwide for having the most diverse program of publications, meetings, and other activities.

The profession of forestry started to take hold in the United States in late 1800s. In 1889, George Vanderbilt hired Gifford Pinchot (pictured at right), a young forester educated in Europe, to manage the forest at the Biltmore Estate. It was the nation’s first professionally managed forest. 

SERI is a public interest legal services organisation that provides pro-bono assistance to communities through research, advocacy and litigation across three main themes: ‘Securing a Home’, ‘Making a Living’ and ‘Expanding Political Space’.