Google Earth Outreach is planning some exciting activities for the IUCN World Parks Congress in November 2014 in Sydney, Australia!   Prior to the Congress, we are hosting a 2-day in-depth hands-on workshop to help build the technical capacity of park managers, researchers, and communities. In this workshop, participants will gain technical training on Google mapping software tools “from the ground to the cloud.” Led by the Google Earth Outreach and Earth Engine teams, the workshop will teach participants how to use these tools to raise awareness, reach common understanding, and take action on protected area management and conservation goals. [...]

“Multi-functional farming systems in a changing world” Le Corum conference center, Montpellier, France 7 - 10 September  2015 FSD is an informal interdisciplinary scientific community of practice to promote research and capacity building on farming systems design. The core is science: “The research focus of the FSD community is the farm system level, the interactions and feedbacks at lower and higher levels of integration and the tools and methods required for understanding and implementing multi-functional farming systems expressing good trade-offs between agricultural production and ecosystems services ”. Each symposium brings an applied focus: FSD5 will focuse on “Multi-functional farming systems [...]

About the Course Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet gives students an overview of a range of emerging concepts within sustainability science, like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, and resilience. These concepts are at the core of contemporary research and debate on global sustainability. They are key to frame and understand rapidly changing trends in global environmental change caused by humans, and to assess responses that aim at reversing global environmental change. They also help exploring pathways for ensuring safe and just human wellbeing for present and future generations. The lead [...]

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTALIST REF NO: 21000024 DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT & PLANNING UNIT ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN AND CLIMATE PROTECT DEPARTMENT Total Remuneration Package R535 221.00 / R676 637.00 pa Grade 14   Benefits included in the Total Value of Remuneration Package Range (Pension, 13th Cheque, Medical Aid, Housing Subsidy& Locomotion) are payable in accordance with the rules/requirements of the respective benefit schemes and any revisions that may occur from time to time which may alter the Total Value of Remuneration Package. In addition other allowances may be payable (where applicable). Job Purpose: Contributes to the co-ordination, preparation and implementation of an Environmental [...]

This is an announcement for six tenured positions in Australia - in social science, computational biology, and ecology. Also available are six Postdoctoral Fellowships (see below). Coral Reef Research Leaders James Cook University (JCU), in partnership with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, is seeking to recruit up to six outstanding mid-career to established career coral reef research fellows to tenured positions in Townsville. Appointees will make a major contribution to their field of expertise and drive research development and collaboration with national and international partners. Fellows will develop leadership roles and foster research excellence within [...]

Don't miss your chance to interact and exchange ideas with the rapidly growing network of ESP members, practitioners, educators, policy-makers, researchers, and many others from all continents. Be part of special sessions and working-groups producing outcomes ranging from journal articles, white papers, book chapters, grant proposals, database structures, websites, and much more. Important deadlines 15 August: deadline registration for (free) pre-conference trainings 1 September: closing conference registration   For more information click here.    

Welcome to the Transitions for Sustainable Development Social Science e-Conference Transitions for Sustainable Development – Social scientists meeting the challenge How are we as social scientists meeting the challenges of our changing global environment? Social science research can help us: better comprehend the complex dynamics of linked social-ecological systems, and explain how to manage our development to support resilient communities and ecosystems. This e-conference builds directly on the World Social Science Report (2013). It recognises that global environmental changes have potentially grave consequences for the well-being and security of people all over the world. The challenge we face is to secure sustainable [...]

UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL (UKZN) COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE 1 X POSITION POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIODIVERSITY PLANNING & POLICY ONE YEAR FULL TIME (RENEWABLE) SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES PIETERMARITZBURG CAMPUS In partnership with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), the School seeks one postdoctoral fellow to join an interdisciplinary research programme on biodiversity conservation and land use planning. For more information, please follow this link: Advert Postdoc Fellow July 2014. Closing date for applications: 31 August 2014

POST-DOCTORAL FIXED-TERM CONTRACT POSITION (3 YEARS) with SANParks SCIENTIFIC SERVICES (nodes in Kruger, Garden Route and Table Mountain National Parks) CLOSING DATE: 30 June 2014 SANParks has attracted considerable attention for its development of Strategic Adaptive Management (SAM) as a decision making framework and governance approach. The conceptual basis of SAM has co-evolved with its operational application, the latter on a diverse spectrum of management challenges such as river health, elephant populations and fire regimes. Practicing SAM has helped to establish stakeholder engagement, co-learning and cooperative governance as fundamental values within SANParks. The organisation is now ready to embark on [...]

The Doctoral Programme ‘Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies’ was approved by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF)! Funded largely by the Austrian Science Foundation, the DK is a multi-year interdisciplinary doctoral college (potentially up to 12 years, with 3 batches of candidates), and will begin operations in October 2014. As a result, there are exciting employment opportunities for outstanding PhD students. There is also one post at the postdoctoral level. The call for applications and information on how to apply can be found here: https://dk-climate-change.uni-graz.at/en/call-for-applications/ There are sixteen fully-funded PhD student positions, with contracts starting as of October [...]