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 [...]

International Summer School: "How to model human decision making in social-ecological agent-based models" For PhD Students and early Postdocs modelling social-ecological systems in the context of natural resource use From 5 July to 10 July 2015 in Kohren-Sahlis (near Leipzig, Germany) More info: https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=33352

Research Fellowship: Ecosystem Resilience and Bio-Physical Process Bangor University - School of Ocean Sciences Salary: £31,324 to £37,394 (Grade 7) p.a. Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Contract / Temporary Placed on: 29th December 2014 Closes: 4th February 2015 Job Ref: BU00781 Bangor University, Cardiff University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) invite applications for a 44-month, full-time Research Fellowship to investigate how coastal and estuarine landscapes are shaped by interactions of biological resilience with environmental change. Salt marshes are important for flood protection, but undergo sudden shifts in area cover and distribution. The causes for such shifts [...]

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's (NMMU) Sustainability Research Unit (www.nmmu.ac.za/sru) is recruiting Master’s and Doctoral students who are passionate about collaborative action research, complexity and adaptive co-management of social-ecological systems. Our over-all objective with this action research programme is to work with stakeholders towards adaptive environmental stewardship, using the Garden Route as a ‘laboratory’ for transformation. We offer: Some leeway to pursue your own interests, within the conceptual frameworks of social-ecological resilience, adaptive co-management, social learning, environmental stewardship and participatory action research in the Garden Route; Linkages to networks of leading national and international academics and students; A collegial and [...]

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.

The 4th International ICLEI Urban Research Symposium 8-12 April 2015 - Seoul, Republic of Korea   Leading urban sustainability researchers will convene at the ICLEI World Congress to drive forward current debates in international policymaking and sustainable development. We invite interested researchers and experts to submit abstracts which reflect either active research contributions or research-practice collaboration in these fields.   Thematic priorities for the 2015 Symposium include: - Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at the urban level: We wish to bring research-practitioners together to discuss what is needed to implement the new SDGs at the urban level. Where will research [...]