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 [...]

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is organizing a free online course on environmental justice. The course aims to increase understanding on how environmental change affects people, and how we can work together for justice in environmental management. The course considers environmental challenges such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change. Inscriptions are now open for a session starting on 30 March 2015. When: From 30 March onwards Duration: The course lasts for ten weeks and there are around 4 hours of lessons per week. Where: FutureLearn Platform For whom: The course is designed for people who are already working [...]

We invite you to participate in the 6th Annual Earth System Governance Conference, co-hosted by the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. Key Dates Deadline for paper abstracts: 1 March 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Full papers due: 14 November 2015 Conference dates: 14-16 December 2015 Conference Theme 'Democracy and Resilience in the Anthropocene' is the overarching theme for the 2015 Canberra Conference on Earth System Governance. Resilience and the Anthropocene are increasingly prominent in contemporary narratives of global environmental change, with important implications for how we think about governance. Can democratic politics at the local, [...]

The South African Young Water Professionals (YWP) cordially invite all young professionals from water sectors across Africa to attend the combined 4th YWP-ZA Biennial & 1st African YWP Conference! To be held at the CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa The conference theme is “Stop talking, Start doing”. This theme aims to bring academic research together with professionals working in implementation contexts in order to facilitate an awareness of how to apply knowledge and solutions in contexts where they can make a difference. In addition, it will create a platform for researchers and practitioners to get to know each [...]

Funding is available for one PhD and three MSc projects, which fit into a bigger research programme on the effects of bush encroachment on the herbaceous layer: mechanisms, feedbacks and thresholds. The project team comprises Susi Vetter and Brad Ripley (Botany Department, Rhodes University) and Sally Archibald (School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, Wits). Background and project information: Bush encroachment is global phenomenon that has important impacts on grassy ecosystems, causing potentially rapid shifts to functionally distinct forest or thicket. Key to the regime shift between grassland and forest appears to be the loss of a flammable C4 grass layer. The lack of a generalised [...]

Third Resilience Academy - Enhancing resilience to minimize loss and damage - providing knowledge for the UNFCCC https://ehs.unu.edu/article/read/third-resilience-academy-call-for-applications In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impact of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands and exposed coastal regions as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. People on the frontlines of climate change face severe risks from extreme weather and slow onset processes, including coastal inundation, catastrophic floods, and extended drought conditions. These stresses have the [...]