ESPA (Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation) is seeking a dynamic and experienced specialist to support our global science and development programme. Leading in East and Southern African you’ll help ESPA build impact benefitting society, the environment and economy. You role will be to help connect to ESPA’s world-class research to create and influence change at all levels in this region. You will work with ESPA’s researchers and wider group of stakeholders influencing policy, and practice. You will be working as a key member of an international team at the forefront of research and development impact, connecting to and linking over [...]

Systems ranging from the brain and society to ecosystems and the climate can have tipping points where even minor perturbations can invoke a critical transition to a contrasting state. Mathematical theory suggests that the vicinity of a tipping point for such transitions may be inferred from generic features of fluctuations and spatial patterns. The PhD positions offered will elaborate this exciting new idea further, and search for ways to detect such early warning signals in data. The work will be done in close collaboration with our highly interdisciplinary community of collaborators including mathematicians, climate scientists, medical specialists, social scientists and [...]

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM - NRF SOUTH AFRICA DESMOND TUTU DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS   Background The Desmond Tutu Doctoral Training Programme (DTTP) was established in honour of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s lifetime struggle against inequality and his quest for reconciliation. The National Research Foundation (NRF) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) entered into a partnership in 2009 to co-fund South African students carrying out doctoral studies in a Joint Degree (split-site) mode.   Aims of the DTTP The rationale of the DTTP is that VUA joins forces with its South African partners, to build human capital in [...]

Statistics South Africa is proud to announce that several high profile speakers have been lined up for the Annual ISIbalo symposium taking place at Stellenbosch University on 29 June 2015. They include Mr Jeff Radebe, Minister in the Presidency, Rector and Vice Chancellor of Stellenbosch university, Professor Wim de Villiers, Mr Pali Lehohla, Statistician General and member of UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data revolution for Sustainable Development (IEAG), Professor Manie Geyer, Director of the Centre for Regional and Urban innovation and statistical exploration(CRUISE) and Professor Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Institute [...]

The social-ecological systems laboratory of the Autonomous University of Madrid is offering a 4-year PhD position on ‘Assessing ecosystem services flows along rural-urban gradients: applicability to social-ecological landscape planning’. Details of the position are outlined in the following document: Call_PhD_Socialecological-systems-lab.pdf

PROFESSIONAL OFFICER ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability - Africa is expanding its multi-disciplinary professional team through offering exciting new opportunities to experienced practitioners and technical experts in the field of urban development and sustainability at Africa's Head Office in Cape Town. These professionals will provide advanced technical services and support to our growing network of cities, sub-national governments and local government associations across Africa. As part of our multi-disciplinary teams they will engage with national governments, international development partners, and the private sector and our other ICLEI officers around the world. Requirements: A degree (preferably BSc) or B.Tech in [...]

ESP Conference South Africa, 9-15 November 2015 Call for abstracts The call for all abstracts is open. The deadline for abstract submission is approaching soon; for oral presentations 30 June, and for posters 31 July. To prepare your abstract submission, please have a look at the workshop overview webpage. To submit an abstract please select three workshops that best suit the theme of your abstract. When a workshop states 'CLOSED' it means no voluntary contributions can be uploaded to that workshop. ESP8 Program All workshop descriptions have been uploaded onto the website and can be viewed on the workshop overview page. Please note that this is overview can still be subject to change. Registration [...]

Researcher (post-doctoral level) Published: 2015-05-25 Uppsala University is an international research university focused on the development of science and education. Our most important assets are all the individuals who with their curiosity and their dedication makes Uppsala University one of Sweden’s most exciting work places. Uppsala University has 45.000 students, 6,800 employees and a turnover of SEK 6,300 million. Dissemination & Capacity Building for Sustainable Ecosystems and Livelihoods The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, wishes to recruit an Experienced Researcher at a post-doctoral level. The position is funded as part of a European Union FP7 Marie Curie [...]

The Global Landscapes Initiative is hiring one or more postdoctoral research fellows to study how the connections between land use change, agriculture, and the environment affect risks to the global food system. Our research group of 10+ people draws on a broad set of skills to identify solutions to major global challenges, publish research in high-profile academic journals, and offers great opportunities for interdisciplinary work. The research is highly collaborative both within the team, with other research groups at the Institute on the Environment, and with other leading academic and non-profit institutions. The Global Landscapes Initiative is part of the [...]

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:  Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-­Economy Applications are invited for a post-­doctoral research fellowship on the bio-­economy, beginning early 2016. The position will be based in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation Research Chair on Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy. We seek an energetic and motivated scholar to join a growing team of researchers working on these issues and to conduct her or his own research within one or more of the following inter-­related themes: access and benefit-­‐sharing, bio-discovery [...]