Closing date: 24 August 2016. Project description and main responsibilities We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to form part of the secretariat of the new EAT-Lancet commission on Health Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, placed at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. EAT (www.eatforum.org) is a global multi-stakeholder platform and international consortium advancing knowledge and solutions for healthy and sustainable food systems through dialogue and action between science, policy and business. The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is an international research center, by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University, that advances sustainability science for biosphere stewardship. The SRC serves as the main [...]

Project overview and responsibilities A PhD in the field of rangeland rehabilitation is being offered by the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, as part of a Global Environment Facility funded sustainable land management project in South Africa (GEF5-SLM). The PhD involves researching and assisting with the implementation of best practices in rangeland rehabilitation in degraded communal-rural rangelands in the Eastern Cape and possibly abroad. The research forms part of the broader GEF5-SLM project being implemented at three main sites in South Africa: Macubeni and the Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape, the Olifants catchment in Limpopo Province, and in the [...]

Faculty: AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University Department or Division: Dean’s division – Food Systems Short description of Department’s / Division’s activities: The role of private companies and other non-state actors is of growing importance in food security and land use issues in southern Africa. These include major ‘up-stream’ and ‘down-stream’ actors in the food system, including those engaged in agricultural inputs, food processing, marketing, intraregional trading, a range of nongovernmental organisations and the food aid sectors. Their decisions ultimately strongly influence land use, and the concomitant impacts on soils, water, carbon sequestration and biodiversity. The role these ‘actors’ fulfil, and the way [...]

Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), Faculty of Sustainability invites applications for 2 new post doc positions within the  transdisciplinary project funded by the State of Lower Saxony and Volkswagen Foundation entitled: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge The first position (PD3a) “transdisciplinary case studies” contributes to the consolidation of the epistemological and methodological foundations of transdisciplinary case studies.  The themes of the case studies will revolve around the food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE). The second position (PD3b) “Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use” focuses on consolidating conceptual foundations related to the role of [...]

The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in Singapore, in a joint initiative between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Singapore’s National Research Foundation, is looking for a doctoral student to build a decision support system for planning urban green areas in mega-cities. For setting up such a spatially explicit decision support system, a highly skilled and motivated candidate is sought to work on the development of ecosystem services modeling techniques and 3D vegetation visualizations. The work is done in close collaboration with landscape architects, landscape ecologists, and water engineers. The position is embedded within the "Ecosystem Services [...]

  Following on from several successful previous workshops over the last seven years and due to popular demand, a workshop team from the University of St Andrews (CREEM), in conjunction with the ACCESS programme, the Namibian University of Technology (NUST) and the Southern African Institute of Environmental Assessment (SAIEA), will host a 4 day workshop in Windhoek, Namibia, to introduce participants to basic statistical modelling techniques. The course is open to everyone and will be heavily practical based (using real data examples), working directly with statistical software. There will be no tuition fee charged for the course (it’s free), however [...]

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future announces the request for proposals for their third round of Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability. This program is intended to stimulate original cross-disciplinary research and development of sustainable solutions that address the world’s most pressing problems in six focus areas: sustainable agriculture and food systems, energy transitions, one health, sustainable communities, new materials, and computational sustainability. Each fellow will have two advisers, a lead adviser from Cornell University and a collaborating adviser from an external non-university organization. More information is available on the website. Full applications are due on the 6th of October 2016.

The first Conference of the Regional Africa chapter of the ESP (Ecosystem Services Partnership) will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on November 21-25 2016. The conference theme will be Ecosystem Services for SDGs in Africa. Discussions will focus on Africa’s contribution towards data and evidence on best practices for management and restoration of ecosystem services for decision making, particularly towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more information, please visit the conference website.

Position as postdoctoral research fellow available available at Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo (Norway). The interdisciplinary project investigates how nature shapes preferences and incentives of economic agents and how this in turn affects common-pool resource management. The deadline for application is June 22nd. Here is the link to the full announcement text and instructions on how to apply: uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1650765/96871?iso=no

SouthSouthNorth is a non-profit company working on projects that promote sustainable development and address climate change. They are looking for self-motivated and enthusiastic young talent to join their team for six months in the next phase of their internship programme. Interns at SouthSouthNorth provide support to the organisation in a number of ways including planning events and logistics, project management and research, knowledge management, and operational support. The internship offers a broad perspective into the inner workings of the organisation, and applicants can expect to encounter a diverse and engaging range of tasks. The role is outlined more fully in the terms of reference [...]