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 [...]

The Swedish Institute invites applications for study scholarships for South African students. The scholarships are intended for full-time master's level studies in Sweden and are granted on condition that the students have been admitted to a master's programme at a Swedish University. Eligible programmes are presented at University Admissions with the following subject areas: social science focusing on democracy, information and communication technologies, and environment and sustainability. Applicants must be South African citizens but may, at the time of application and admission, reside in a country other than South Africa, including Sweden. Priority will be given to applicants who have [...]

Early career scientists are invited to submit applications to participate in next year's Future Earth young scientists' networking conference on integrated science. The International Council for Science (ICSU), International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) invite applications for participation from post-doctoral researchers interested in integrated science and collaboration between the social and natural sciences. The conference will bring together senior and leading scientists and researchers with a diversity of perspectives to identify priority questions for future research on the topic of 'Future Sustainability - the role of Science in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)'. It will [...]

The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) are launching a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) on Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities. The MOOC will feature lectures from top sustainability scientists, such as Johan Rockström, and will run from November 17, 2014 to January 18, 2015. The MOOC will contain eight different modules, covering key sustainability science topics, such as: the Anthropocene, social-ecological systems thinking, planetary boundaries, and resilience thinking. Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the topics through quizzes and homework assignments. The MOOC is also designed to be as interactive as possible [...]

STEPS Centre Summer School University of Sussex, 11-22 May 2015 www.steps-centre.org/summerschool   The STEPS Centre is now inviting applications to take part in its fourth annual Summer School.   Applications are invited from highly-motivated doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, working in fields around development studies, science and technology studies, innovation and policy studies, and across agricultural, health, water or energy issues.   Participants will explore the theme of pathways to sustainability through a mixture of workshops, lectures, outdoor events and focused interaction with STEPS Centre members. The Summer School takes place at the Institute of Development Studies on the Sussex University [...]

The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is launching an open online course together with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).7 The course, "Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet" will help students explore and apply a range of emerging concepts within sustainability science. These concepts include: the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, the social-ecological systems approach and resilience thinking. Approaches that are at the core of contemporary research and debates in the arena of global sustainability Free, massive, open and online The course will help participants to frame and understand the trends in human-caused global [...]

INVITATION FOR A SYMPOSIUM PRIVATE INVESTMENTS IN NATURE CONSERVATION: STUDYING MOTIVES AND BENEFITS   Date: October 20th, 2014 Time: 09.00 – 16.00 hours (Tea and Coffee: 8:30 – 09:00) Venue: Seminar Room 1 (5th Floor), Environmental & Geographical Science Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Organizers: Maano Ramutsindela (UCT) & Marja Spierenburg (VU Amsterdam)   PROGRAMME: Introductions: 09:00 – 09:15   Session 1: Chair Maano Ramutsindela Presentation 1: 09:15 – 10:15 Neoliberal Nature and African Agency : Eco-tourism, trophy hunting and the commodification of nature in akuleke Contract Park, South Africa (Steven Robins – University of Stellenbosch) Presentation 2: 10:15 – 11:15 Private investment [...]