The Green Economy manager in the Western Cape Provincial Government, Charline Mouton, is looking to appoint an intern for a year. The intern will a) assist in the implementation of Green Economy projects covering a variety of sub sectors, i.e. waste, water, built environment etc.; and b) assist with the 110% Green programme, including managing social media and website content; and c) provide general support to the Green Economy programme.   Requirements: Masters level student, preferably someone that has taken courses in Environmental Economics in their 4th year. Ideally, the candidate should be able to start in December 2013 or January [...]

  Ref.nr SU FV-2901-13 Closing date: 2013-11-20   Project title: Middlemen as crucial social-ecological linkages for achieving sustainable small-scale fisheries   Project description Understanding how global drivers, such as seafood trade, affect relations between fishers and market agents is essential to increase fishers’ returns, reduce poverty and better sustain fisheries resources. Curbing exploitation locally has focused on restricting fishers’ effort, but global demands create exogenous pressure that is hard for small-scale operators to withstand. Hence, management must extend up the commodity chain and middlemen are an important link. They provide fishers with incentives, markets access, and many services but little [...]

STEPS Centre Summer School University of Sussex, 12-23 May 2014 The STEPS Centre invites applications to take part in its third annual Summer School.   Applications are invited from highly-motivated doctoral and postdoctoral researchers or those with equivalent experience, 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 on the Sussex University campus, near Brighton, UK.   [...]

Two-year fellowship available immediately to work with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate the impacts of marine conservation interventions, focusing on analyzing monitoring data for marine protected areas. Fellow will be in residence at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) facilities at the University of Maryland in Annapolis, MD, and will also spend significant time at WWF-US offices in Washington, D.C. For earliest consideration, apply by October 20, 2013. The Luc Hoffmann Institute, based at WWF International, Switzerland, in partnership with the National Social-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), seeks a postdoctoral fellow to work with an interdisciplinary Pursuit/Collaborative Research Team (CRT) to evaluate [...]

It is with pleasure that we share with you the launch of the Network for Business Sustainability South Africa (NBS:SA), an affiliate of the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS). NBS is an award-winning, internationally recognised initiative linking research and practice. Established as a non-profit, NBS is a powerful and growing network of international academic experts and business leaders. NBS produces authoritative resources on important sustainability issues – with the goal of shaping management practice and research. NBS:SA has adapted the NBS model to respond to the South African context, in order to better make use of and to build the [...]

This is a re-offering of the popular "Introduction to Complexity" online course of the Santa Fe Institute. In this course you'll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you'll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks. You’ll also get a sense of how these topics fit together to help explain how complexity arises and evolves in nature, society, and technology. There are no prerequisites. You don't need a science or math background to take this introductory course; it simply requires an interest in the field and the willingness [...]

Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment invites applications for a faculty position in Marine Policy and Governance. We seek a social scientist working on marine issues, broadly construed, at the local, regional, national, or international level. We welcome applications from candidates with a PhD in any social science discipline, or related fields such as law. This position will be based in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation and located at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, a vibrant intellectual community of social and natural scientist faculty, researchers, and students situated in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina. The mission [...]

As you already know, the Santa Fe Institute's research spans the growing field of complex systems.  This includes: scaling and growth in cities social, biological, and technological networks phase transitions in search and optimization quantum computing and computational complexity major transitions in evolution, and the origin of life We have postdocs, faculty, and visitors in fields ranging from Computer Science, Economics, and Physics to Biology, Ecology, and Anthropology.  If you come here, your own interests will add to this ever-changing mix.   In addition to a competitive salary, Omidyar Fellows receive discretionary research funds for travel, visitors, and other research costs.  The Fellowship lasts up [...]

The National Research Foundation, in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, invites applications from doctoral students to participate in the Southern African Young Scientists Summer Programme. The programme, to be held from 24 November 2013 to 22 February 2014 at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, will enable doctoral candidates to advance their research under the direct supervision of senior scientists. Participants will be associated with a research project related to their research interests, expertise and skills, and which is compatible with their doctoral research. The programme will [...]