The Stockholm Resilience Centre will host the conference Transformations2015 in Stockholm, Sweden 5-7 October 2015. For more information, visit the conference website. Transformations are often discussed as necessary to achieve a just society that thrives within planetary boundaries. The conference Transformations2015 will focus on transformations towards sustainability: the challenge of solving problems in the Anthropocene and creating conditions for good lives for people, today and in the future, while strengthening Earth's life support system. Located in Stockholm, the conference will gather people from various disciplines around the world to share cutting-edge research on transformations to sustainability, and through a Science MashUp explore the [...]

Are you interested in complex networks, multiplex, interdependent networks and the like? This may be a great place to start. For full information on the summer school visit: https://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/ The summer school is organized by Manlio De Domenico and Alex Arenas in Salina (Italy, from the 3rd to the 8th of September). Brief Description of the Summer School: In the last decade, network theory has been revealed to be a perfect instrument to model the structure of complex systems and the dynamical process they are involved into. The wide variety of applications to social sciences, technological networks, biology, transportation and [...]

Lecturership (x2) in Sustainability 50th Anniversary Lectureships Starting Salary between £33,242 - £39,685* Closing Date: Sunday 22 February 2015 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A1147 https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1147 This full-time research-focused post (equivalent to Assistant Professor) is designed to identify academic leaders of the future and is part of the University's long-term investment to further strengthen its academic standing as a world class University. The Rubin Foundation Charitable Trust has generously agreed to fund the creation of The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and the Rubin Chair in Sustainability in Business. The Centre and the Chair will be a cross-Faculty [...]

Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate to work on the project Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) working with Dr Roger Few. This position is based at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK. The post holder will take a full intellectual role in the development and conduct of ASSAR research and research-into-use activities in East Africa. You must have a PhD or equivalent qualification in environment and development, experience of research or applied work on climate change adaptation or climate risk management and be able to [...]

Invitation: Organisational Responses to Social-Ecological Complexity  12 February 2015, UCT Graduate School of Business You are invited to a discussion hosted by the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) Chair on organisational innovation and intermediation in social-­ecological systems. We seek a better theoretical and practically relevant understanding of why and how organisations – including in particular corporations and intermediaries – proactively respond to complex social and environmental problems. Researchers in the ACDI Chair will provide brief overviews of their analyses as a platform for discussion among researchers and practitioners. Kindly RSVP by 31 January 2015 to Lindie Botha at lindie@odysseynet.org. For more information, please download the programme here.

Applications are invited for a one year post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University. The candidate will join a vibrant research community in the department, and will work primarily on a project entitled: Fostering community based ecosystem stewardship in conjunction with ecological restoration efforts. The project will feed directly into an applied context where restoration efforts are underway in a communal area in South Africa. Suitably qualified candidates should have a background in community based research contexts, and preferably display a strong understanding of participatory development processes in developing countries. The candidate will be based full time at Rhodes University in [...]

The call for applications for the 3rd round of scholarship awards by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now open. Deadline: 15 Feb 2015. Candidates must be a citizen of a developing country and be no more than 30 years of age at the time of application. Candidates must have an admissions offer for PhD studies or be currently studying at PhD level at a university of their choice. Research proposals accepted for the third round of awards will fall under the following themes of study: * Climate and water * Climate and the oceans * Underlying science [...]

Post-graduate Researcher (holding MSc or PhD degree): Operationalizing Ecosystem Services with Stakeholders in the European Wine Industry Limit of tenure: 2 years Extent: 100 % Location: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, Lund First day of employment: As soon as possible - Negotiable (latest September 1, 2015.) Official Records Number: PEPA 2014/994   Job Description: We invite applications for a two-year early-career research position for a candidate currently holding either a masters or doctoral degree, based at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Lund, Sweden. The applicant will be part of the European FP 7-funded research [...]

JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme Jointly organized by the United Nations University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is designed to provide promising, highly qualified, young researchers with the opportunity to conduct advanced research relevant to the main thematic focus areas of the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS, Tokyo) and UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR, Tokyo), in co-operation with host researchers at Japanese universities and research institutions. This fellowship is aimed at candidates who have completed their PhD degrees in the past six years and also have [...]

This is a call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows to apply to join the Gauteng City- Region Observatory (GCRO), a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government and organized local government. The post-doctoral Fellowship is a University of Johannesburg fellowship, offered for a period of 18 months. All Post-Doc Fellows will be expected to publish scientific papers based on their PhD research work as well as to actively participate in other research projects being implemented by the GCRO. SCOPE OF POTENTIAL RESEARCH TOPICS: Among other related topics, successful applicants will be expected to focus [...]