Apply now before 22 March and become part of the TRECCAfrica community! TRECCAfrica addresses one of the world’s greatest environmental challenges: food security in the face of climate change, resource depletion and loss of forests, wildlife and environmental services. Applications from African citizens (including Diaspora) are now invited for the following categories: -­ Full degree Master’s degree scholarships -­ Short term Masters and doctoral exchange scholarships (for applicants currently enrolled in a Master’s or doctoral programme in the home university) -­ Staff exchange awards (only for TRECCAfrica partner university academic and administrative staff) Successful candidates will enrol in a selection [...]

Call for Abstracts: International Conference “MOVING BEYOND RISKS: Organising for Resilience”, which will be held at Hotel Golf in Bled, Slovenia, between 16th and 18th September 2015 The main aim of the conference is to bring together global academic expertise, policy makers and practitioners from High Reliability Organizing, Resilience Engineering, Critical Infrastructures, Risk management and Disasters for developing holistic responses to growing resilience problems. Main conference topics are: Resilience and high reliability – theory for integrated practice (sub-themes can include HRO and NAT theory developments) Risk assessment and management Disaster risk management systems Natural hazards – empirical studies (floods, storms, [...]

Four new Postdoctoral positions on Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: institutions, people and knowledge   A pdf of this overview is available here.  Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Faculty of Sustainability is advertising four postdoctoral positions. They will contribute to the transdisciplinary Leverage Points project. Drawing on insights from systems thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto underrecognized leverage points – system properties where a small shift can lead to fundamental changes in the system as a whole. Leverage Points will focus on changes in relatively intractable, but potentially highly influential, system properties that could help to realign complex social-ecological systems to [...]

This film traces some of the key aspects of regenerative development and the people who are practicing it – the 'regenerates'. The documentary was composed by Alexander Melck (South Africa) and co-produced by Dominique Hes (Australia) and Chrisna du Plessis (South Africa). It features the ideas and practices of a number of regenerates around the world, bravely trying to make the world a better place. These interviews contribute to the book, Designing for Hope available on Routledge. Visit the Contributive Practice website for more info.

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 [...]