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Post-doc position available with the SARChI Chair research group on “Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods”

The SARChI Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods in the department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University focuses on generating interdisciplinary understandings of natural biological resources and their roles in rural and urban livelihoods for poverty alleviation and human wellbeing. This includes the ecological, economic and social dimensions of land and biological resource use in both rural and urban systems. The activities of the Chair are currently led by Professor Charlie Shackleton. The Dept of Environmental Science is one of the smallest at Rhodes University, but is one of the most research intensive, with high [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00July 8th, 2019|Eastern Cape & Drakensberg, position, Related News & Events|

Conservation South Africa: Health and Conservation Coordinator

Conservation South Africa vacancy in Matatiele, Eastern Cape Conservation South Africa, as a local affiliate of Conservation International, is committed to helping societies adopt a more sustainable approach to development—one that considers and values nature at every turn and improves human well-being through the conservation of healthy ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. Conservation South Africa seeks to influence policy, develop markets, engage the private sector, and support communities to develop and implement conservation- based economic growth models and long-term human well-being. This position will work closely with the Municipal Support Coordinator in the delivery of CSA’s municipal [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00June 18th, 2019|Eastern Cape & Drakensberg, Related News & Events|

How to Live Better and Stop Destroying the Planet

How to Live Better and Stop Destroying the Planet

A recent United Nations-backed report highlighted the scale of destruction humans are inflicting on the natural world. To reverse these trends, humanity must transform its economic models and food system, treat the world’s oceans far better, and think carefully about the best ways to tackle climate change. STOCKHOLM – Earlier this month, a bleak global assessment of the shocking state of life on Earth made headlines worldwide. According to the report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), about 12% of all known animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Worse still, humanity is destroying entire habitats, and [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00June 13th, 2019|People, SAPECS News, Working Group Members|

Position available: Conservation Science Officer – EWT

The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is seeking to employ a Conservation Science Officer. The purpose of the position is to assist with the development of a Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) database to improve objectivity, accuracy and efficiency in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Through an online web application, this SDM database will allow for a robust measure of biodiversity and increase ability to flag sensitive species for early stage EIAs anywhere in the country. This will ensure that no sensitive species are overlooked in any EIA scoping phase assessment and will guide not only early stage rejections, but also inform the [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00June 13th, 2019|Related News & Events|

Climate Change Ecology Postdoc Opportunity

The University of Cape Town is seeking two Postdoctoral Research Fellows to join a highly interdisciplinary team working on climate change risks to biodiversity and ecosystem services. Job advert for further details and to apply: http://www.acdi.uct.ac.za/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-climate-change-risks-biodiversity-and-ecosystems Positions are for two years. Project research is flexible within three broad objectives: Forecasting the spatial and temporal dynamics of biodiversity disruption from climate change at the species and/or community level; Using existing trait, phylogenetic and species range databases to map relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem services across Africa and predict how these might change due to climate change; Predicting the potential for evolution to rescue [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00May 31st, 2019|Related News & Events|

Post-doc opportunity: Researcher in climate change adaptation focusing on the role of youth change agents and climate change

The University of the Witwatersrand is recognised internationally for excellent research, high academic standards and commitment to social justice. The Global Change Institute would like to appoint a post-doctoral researcher in climate change adaptation focusing on the role of youth change agents and climate change. About the job: Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change owing to a range of reasons including climate and weather systems. Low coping and adaptation capacity add to the vulnerability of the continent. Recently, notwithstanding the international upsurge in interest in climate change (e.g. Sendai framework, Conference of the Parties meetings, [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00May 27th, 2019|Related News & Events|

Opportunity to join the Tsitsa Project team

Opportunities to lead Capacity Development; Knowledge Management; Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection & Learning Send a CV and 2-page motivation to: Margaret Wolff (M.Wolff@ru.c.za) by 24 May 2019 The Tsitsa Project is being implemented primarily by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), Chief Directorate Natural Resource Management (NRM) in the communal and free-hold title areas of the north-eastern Eastern Cape. The project works with local authorities and traditional leaders, conducting land restoration in the highly erodible catchment, while a number of South African universities conduct related research in this remote rural landscape. Rhodes University has been contracted by DEA: NRM to [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00May 22nd, 2019|Related News & Events|

PhD opportunity at Monash University, Australia

Assessing the role of scientists within conservation management agencies. We are offering a PhD scholarship to work with an international team led by Dr Carly Cook at Monash University (School of Biological Sciences) in Australia. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with research interests in the integration of conservation science into management action for an exciting project investigating the role of scientists within conservation management agencies. The project: Conservation agencies are increasingly aiming to achieve evidence-based management. In order to support this goal, there is a growing focus on mechanisms for knowledge exchange that can help support the [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00May 15th, 2019|Related News & Events|

SAPECS now represented on major national scientific initiative

SAPECS now represented on major national scientific initiative

Alta de Vos, SAPECS Working Group Member and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, has been appointed to represent SAPECS on the Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON) Advisory Panel. The EFTEON is a research infrastructure that is being developed under the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap program of the Department of Science and Technology. EFTEON is conceived as a modular, highly-networked research infrastructure to support studies on coupled ecological social systems in South Africa. EFTEON will focus on setting up a network of research infrastructure in a number of distributed landscapes, each representing [...]

SAPECS2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00May 15th, 2019|People, SAPECS News|

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