About Cirrus: Cirrus is a young consulting and research firm that advises governments and companies on climate change and the management of natural resources. The firm specialises in the land-use aspects of global change, providing advice on climate change mitigation and adaptation measures as well as on the science and governance of ecosystem services more broadly. Our strength lies in our robust analytical skills and willingness to tackle the multidisciplinary analyses that characterise the global-change domain. With a passion for ecology and economics, our intention is to provide key decision-makers with sound advice on the governance of emerging African landscapes. [...]

The preparations for the fourth triennial Resilience conference “Resilience 2017 – Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability” in Stockholm, 21-23 August 2017, are well under way, and the call for sessions is now open at resilience2017.org To keep up to speed on conference updates such as registration, sessions and abstracts please visit the conference website and follow the conference Twitter account @ResilienceSTHLM. The monthly Stockholm Resilience Centre newsletter will also provide updates (subscribe). If you have any questions about Resilience 2017, please don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to resilience2017@src.su.se  

Assistant or Associate Professor of Social Ecological Systems Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California, Davis Title: Assistant or Associate Professor of Social-Ecological Systems. The Department of Environmental Science and Policy in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis is recruiting an Assistant/Associate Professor Social-Ecological Systems with a preferred emphasis in governance and quantitative approaches including but not limited to network analysis, mathematical models, computational models, and empirical research. The candidate will be part of a cluster hire in a new Network Science and Complex Systems group with membership that spans UC-Davis [...]

Living Lands invite applicants to fulfil the role of Project Manager/ Landscape Mobiliser in the Langkloof for Living Lands for an initial period of 12 months, with the possibility of extending the contract to a permanent position. Reference: LLA52016 Job title: Landscape Mobiliser / Project Manager Location: Langkloof, Eastern Cape Duration: 12 months, with the possibility of a permanent position Hours: Usually 8am-5pm   Living Lands – The Organization The vision of Living Lands involves ‘collaborations working on living landscapes’*, which represents the connection amongst stakeholders and the undertaking of a learning process that ultimately leads to social awareness and [...]

Terms of Reference – Bioregional integration officer: wildlife economy Full-time Contract: 2 ½ years R382 897 per annum (Full cost to company) Closing date: 10 August 2016 Purpose To integrate and support the implementation of local and bioregional programmes within the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere, contributing to the wildlife economy and natural resource programme outcomes and community empowerment strategies. Key performance areas 1. Develop a framework for bioregional programme integration and support to wildlife economy and natural resource implementation priorities; 2. Coordinate the K2C Research forum and participate in the learning/research networks of the GEF PA, other relevant training and [...]

Closing date: 24 August 2016. Project description and main responsibilities We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to form part of the secretariat of the new EAT-Lancet commission on Health Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, placed at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. EAT (www.eatforum.org) is a global multi-stakeholder platform and international consortium advancing knowledge and solutions for healthy and sustainable food systems through dialogue and action between science, policy and business. The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is an international research center, by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University, that advances sustainability science for biosphere stewardship. The SRC serves as the main [...]

Project overview and responsibilities A PhD in the field of rangeland rehabilitation is being offered by the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, as part of a Global Environment Facility funded sustainable land management project in South Africa (GEF5-SLM). The PhD involves researching and assisting with the implementation of best practices in rangeland rehabilitation in degraded communal-rural rangelands in the Eastern Cape and possibly abroad. The research forms part of the broader GEF5-SLM project being implemented at three main sites in South Africa: Macubeni and the Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape, the Olifants catchment in Limpopo Province, and in the [...]

Faculty: AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University Department or Division: Dean’s division – Food Systems Short description of Department’s / Division’s activities: The role of private companies and other non-state actors is of growing importance in food security and land use issues in southern Africa. These include major ‘up-stream’ and ‘down-stream’ actors in the food system, including those engaged in agricultural inputs, food processing, marketing, intraregional trading, a range of nongovernmental organisations and the food aid sectors. Their decisions ultimately strongly influence land use, and the concomitant impacts on soils, water, carbon sequestration and biodiversity. The role these ‘actors’ fulfil, and the way [...]

Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), Faculty of Sustainability invites applications for 2 new post doc positions within the  transdisciplinary project funded by the State of Lower Saxony and Volkswagen Foundation entitled: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge The first position (PD3a) “transdisciplinary case studies” contributes to the consolidation of the epistemological and methodological foundations of transdisciplinary case studies.  The themes of the case studies will revolve around the food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE). The second position (PD3b) “Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use” focuses on consolidating conceptual foundations related to the role of [...]

The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in Singapore, in a joint initiative between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Singapore’s National Research Foundation, is looking for a doctoral student to build a decision support system for planning urban green areas in mega-cities. For setting up such a spatially explicit decision support system, a highly skilled and motivated candidate is sought to work on the development of ecosystem services modeling techniques and 3D vegetation visualizations. The work is done in close collaboration with landscape architects, landscape ecologists, and water engineers. The position is embedded within the "Ecosystem Services [...]