Doctoral studentship in Sustainability Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Reference number SU FV-0892-14. Deadline for applications: May 2, 2014. Project title: Identifying craftsmanship and local ecological knowledge in coastal fisheries for sustainable use of sustainable management of Nordic sea- and landscapes.  Project description Soon Nordic coastal fishing will be a memory. During the last century the total number of fishers in nordic countries diminished dramatically. This decline has been particularly pronouced among coastal fishers. The loss of cultural capital that Nordic coastal fishers represent, i.e. ´their working knowledge´ and skills, implies a tremendous setback for sustainable management of coastal sea- [...]

The Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in the Sciences is one of the principal programmes of the Claude Leon Foundation. The Trustees of the Foundation seek to upgrade research at South African universities in the faculties of Science, Engineering and Medical Sciences by making awards to both South African and foreign postdoctoral scientists, who should increase the volume and quality of research output, transfer technical skills, and generally enhance the research culture. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis, taking the applicants’ academic achievements and potential as researchers into account. Application deadline for 2015 postdoctoral fellowships: 31 May 2014.   For more information [...]

Date: March 18th, 2014 Venue: STIAS | Wallenberg Centre | 10 Marais Rd | Stellenbosch | South Africa Registration fee: R 400 per person The notion of anticipation is increasingly at the heart of urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to economic crisis. As societies become less confident that traditional methods will provide effective models by which to understand and engage with complexity, anticipation is coming to the foreground as an emerging field of study that is influencing a wide variety of disciplines. In this colloquium we will explore how complex systems can be understood by developing models of anticipation [...]

The Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), in McGill University'’s Faculty of Engineering, is seeking a scholar to spend six months in residence to participate in collaborative and interdisciplinary research and teaching. TISED’s 2014-2015 Scholars-in-Residence program supports scholars and experts to conduct collaborative research with an emphasis on advancing sustainability in one of the following areas: (a) energy resources and efficiency; (b) urban development; and (c) urban transportation. The selected Scholar would be engaged in policy-focused research that will enable significant advances in sustainability in the above areas. Relevant information and application details are available here: https://www.mcgill.ca/tised/activities/scholar-residence

The 30 million pound Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is located on the University's Penryn Campus and is funded with a 22.9 million pound investment from the European Regional Development Fund and 6.6 million pounds from the South West of England Regional Development Agency. The ESI leads cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research into solutions to problems of environmental change; and in so doing enhances people's lives by improving their relationships with the environment.   We are looking to appoint a Lecturer in the area of social science of sustainability with disciplinary background in Geography or Environmental Science. All applications relevant to our research strategy will be considered, however we [...]

Introduction The Research Platform Production and Conservation in Partnership (RP-PCP; www.rp-pcp.org) was established in 2007, formally associating the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) with two French research organisations, CIRAD and CNRS. The overall objective of the RP-PCP is to contribute to sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and improved rural livelihoods in Southern Africa, through strengthening national research capacities, multidisciplinary approaches and institutional partnerships. Although it is based in Zimbabwe, the platform has a clear regional dimension, and we are actively seeking to develop further collaborations with academic and research institutions from neighbouring countries [...]

The Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute (GCSRI) at the University of the Witwatersrand invite applications for the following opportunities: A. Within the broad fields of Water Management, Innovation and energy transitions, Sustainable urbanisation and Healthy and productive ecosystems; the following positions are available with funding received from the Carnegie Corporation of New York: Bursaries for full-time doctoral study: R150 000 per year, for a maximum of three years, with R20 000 per year running cost. Postdoctoral fellowships: R200 000 per year, for one year, renewable for a second year, with a relocation and medical aid allowance Research fellowships: R340 [...]

Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow specialising in Climate Change Scenarios, Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation, at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a Southern African regional research team, within the broader ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) multi-region research project, and for cross-region research synthesis across other ASSAR regional research projects (West Africa, East Africa, South Asia). The post involves both research management and supervision, as well as significant personal research. ASSAR is a five year [...]

The Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France), in its Research Group "Conservation Ecology and Biotic Interactions" has a 22-month post-doc position open for applications. The position is funded through a European Neigborhood Partnership (ENPI) project on vulnerability of coastal ecosystems, involving research groups from Rome and Cagliari (Italy), Alexandria (Egypt), Beirut (Lebanon) and Sfax (Tunisia). At IMBE, the project is directed by Arne Saatkamp, Agathe Leriche, and Cécile Albert, in Marseille, France - a region noted for its access to outdoor activities. The project aims to model the impacts of fragmentation (spatial organization), habitat degradation [...]

The Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France), in its Research Group "Macroecology and Biogeography of Global Change (MacroBio)" has a 36-month PhD position open for applications. The position is funded by the European Commission through the FP7 Research Project OPERAs and affiliated with the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS). The topic is the broad-scale spatial mapping and quantification of ecosystem service trade-offs following management of agro-ecosystems in the Mediterranean basin. The context of the research includes the environment (climate, land use) as well as trends in societal demands for services. Based on scientific literature, spatial [...]