Call for Applications: Postdocs (2) The SARChI Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, Grahamstown (South Africa) is currently held by Professor Charlie Shackleton. The broad focus of the Chair’s is interdisciplinary research into understandings of natural resources in rural and urban livelihoods for poverty alleviation. Applications are currently open for two post-doctoral positions from ecological, social or economic scientists. Interested applicants must be able to demonstrate their prior work and expertise in, or application of such to, any one of the three research areas: [...]

11th ALTER-Net Summer School "Biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable management of socio-ecosystems" 7-17 September 2016 Peyresq, Haute-de-Provence, France Fee: €800 Open to young graduate and post-graduate scientists from both within and outside the network partners, the ALTER-Net Summer School provides an innovative atmosphere for thinking about and resolving the sustainability challenges that society is currently facing. The Summer School aims at contributing to the durable integration and spread of excellence within and beyond the network, with a view to promoting interdisciplinary approaches. ALTER-Net Summer Schools have been running since 2006 and offer students a unique opportunity to learn about current issues [...]

Summer School on Modelling Environmental Resilience *Climate, (Agro)-Ecology, Ocean, Society* 19-25 June 2016, Paris (France)   The summer school takes place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 19-26 June 2016 in the heart of Paris, France, and is supported by PSL Research University Paris. This summer school aims to bring together a group of 25 participants with a strong interest in environmental science and with backgrounds in quantitative sciences from across a range of disciplines (ecology, geosciences, physics, agronomy, economics, geography, etc). The objective is to expose the group to a number of views on the concept of “resilience" of environmental [...]

Volkswagen Foundation's has announced Calls for postdoctoral fellowships under the Initiative “Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The funding initiative aims at extending and strengthening research in the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.   Objective The funding initiative is open to all disciplines and aims at the development and sustainable reinforcement of research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Research projects, developed and carried out by African scholars and scientists in close cooperation with their German partners, shall provide junior researchers in Africa with an opportunity to enhance their skills and academic qualifications. Special emphasis is put on the development, [...]

How can Sustainability Science help tackle some of the pressing sustainability challenges that Africa is facing? This is the main question that ICSS2016 will aim to answer, treating topics as diverse as agriculture, food security, biodiversity conservation, mining resources, urban sustainability, green economic transitions and transdisciplinary research in the African context. ICSS2016 will bring together a group of leading international experts from academia and practice representing a rich diversity of disciplinary perspectives. The conference will take place 2-3 March, and is hosted by the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS), University of Stellenbosch. For more information, please visit the conference website.   [...]

One Masters level bursary (R80 000 pa) and one PhD level bursary (R120 000 pa) are available for an exciting interdisciplinary project in the Eastern Cape, and based at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.   Project title: A place to belong: urban planning, housing and greening We seek motivated and enthusiastic students to conduct Masters and PhD research as part of an interdisciplinary team to investigate the worldviews and experiences of nature and use of natural resources and elements in the context of urban residents and its implications for urban planning, housing and greening. This research project forms part of a collaboration [...]

Conservation Ecology and Entomology Senior Lecturer /Lecturer (Ref. AW02/024/01116) Apply online at www.sun.ac.za/english/careers Our departmental mission is “to undertake teaching, research and technology transfer in ecology, conservation and management of utilised landscapes and their surrounds”. To this end, there are seven strategic research thrusts: Conservation Planning and Management in Agricultural Landscapes * Restoration Ecology and Landscape Ecology Conservation of Symbioses Vertebrate Conservation Invertebrate Conservation * Area-wide Pest Management on Selected Crops * Applied Physiological Ecology * * Recommended research thrusts for this position For more information, download the full advertisement here.    

ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability is a global association of over 1000 cities and other subnational government members who are committed to sustainable development. We provide technical services, capacity building and cutting- edge urban solutions to our member cities. ICLEI’s African Head Office is based in Cape Town, serving Members across Sub-Saharan Africa (www.iclei.org). ICLEI Africa invites suitably qualified individuals to apply for the positions below, for appointment as soon as possible: Professional Officer: Urban Biodiversity Expert Professional Officer: Planning Expert Senior Financial Officer (SFO) Communications Manager ICLEI Africa Internships For more detailed information, download the complete advertisement here.  

Land degradation determination through state parameter shift This proposal has been funded for three years by the South African National Research Foundation. The grant-holder is Prof Bob Scholes of the Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Scholes is also co-chair of the global Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. The aim of the project is to put the detection, diagnosis and quantification of land degradation onto a more scientifically sound basis in Southern Africa, using a new conceptualization of degradation based on persistent depression of ecosystem services, [...]

Living Lands & The Four Returns Development Company Post-Graduate Research Students: Water Sector   Background Living Lands and the Four Returns Development Company are private social benefit organisations working with stakeholders in the western catchments (Kromme, Kouga and Baviaanskloof river catchments) that supply most of the current water resources to Port Elizabeth. We will be working with the Water Research Commission over the next three years on a participatory hydrological model building project for these catchments. This model will be developed in collaboration with a company called Nelen and Schuurmans from the Netherlands who have developed very effective online 3Di spatial hydrological models. This is a stakeholder [...]