VACANCY: POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Semi-Arid Regions

VACANCY: POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Semi-Arid Regions Closing Date: 16 Dec 2019 The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) wishes to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PDRF) on the project, Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Semi-Arid Regions. The PDRF will work with an international team of scientists who were part of the CARIAA (Collaborative Adaptation Research in African and Asia) research programme, to i) Synthesize a set of forward-looking findings from ASSAR, PRISE and other related projects (such as the FCFA-funded projects, FRACTAL and AMMA-2050) concerning the risks and opportunities for development in SARs; ii) [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00December 2nd, 2019|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Two MSc opportunities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Water Resources Research (2020 – 2021)

Towards sustainable and equitable management of water resources: Understanding the interlinkages between water, ecosystems and society through spatial mapping of ecosystem services and livelihood benefits.

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00December 2nd, 2019|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|
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Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation intern

This is a fixed-term contract position at the Association of Water and Rural Development (AWARD), an NGO based in Hoedspruit, Limpopo Province. This position will form part of the Blyde Restoration Project funded through the Land User Incentive programme under the Department of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries (DEFF), Chief Directorate: Natural Resource Management (NRM). The Blyde Restoration Project is aimed at supporting the restoration of degraded ecosystems, and the maintenance of these and adjoining healthy ecosystems in the upper Blyde, Klaserie & Sand Catchments, in order to sustain ecosystem services and biodiversity critical to human livelihoods in these catchments in [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00November 22nd, 2019|position, SAPECS News|
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Call for applications: Masters fellowship

 Masters fellowship on quantifying Africa’s Biodiversity Intactness: 2020-2021  Deadline for applications: 25 November 2019  A key challenge of the 21st century is identifying sustainable development pathways for humanity that do not erode the ecological foundation on which human well-being depends. It is increasingly recognized that humans and ecosystems are linked in complex and dynamic ways, as intertwined elements of ‘social-ecological’ systems.  Africa is known for its iconic biodiversity on which people depend for essential services, such as food, water and clean air. The continent is also currently experiencing one the most rapid GDP growth rates of any region. The upcoming [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00November 5th, 2019|Multiple Areas, position, SAPECS News|
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MEDECOS: Call for proposals

The MEDECOS 2020 Organizing Committee invites proposals for symposia and workshops for the 15th Conference on Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MEDECOS) from 6-11 September 2020 in South Africa. Proposals should strive to be inclusive of more than one Mediterranean region Symposia: a well-integrated synthesis of a given topic or theme with broad applicability to Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs). It can be structured as a series of formal talks or a moderated panel discussion allowing for greater audience participation. Symposia will each be allocated 90 or 120 minutes. Workshops: Workshops are focused sessions, not dominated by formal presentations, but rather emphasizing audience participation and [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00September 19th, 2019|SAPECS News|
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SAPECS winter school

Last month, the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) and Southern African Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS) hosted an introductory course on social-ecological systems for Masters and PhD students doing research at the interface of ecosystems and society. Twenty eight students from around Africa gathered to start their learning journey away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life at the Sustainability Institute, an international living and learning centre which provides learning experiences in ecology, community and spirit, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The goal of the SAPECS Winter School were to provide new scholars involved in, or [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00August 1st, 2019|People, SAPECS News|
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How to Live Better and Stop Destroying the Planet

A recent United Nations-backed report highlighted the scale of destruction humans are inflicting on the natural world. To reverse these trends, humanity must transform its economic models and food system, treat the world’s oceans far better, and think carefully about the best ways to tackle climate change. STOCKHOLM – Earlier this month, a bleak global assessment of the shocking state of life on Earth made headlines worldwide. According to the report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), about 12% of all known animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Worse still, humanity is destroying entire habitats, and [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00June 13th, 2019|People, SAPECS News, Working Group Members|
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SAPECS now represented on major national scientific initiative

Alta de Vos, SAPECS Working Group Member and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, has been appointed to represent SAPECS on the Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON) Advisory Panel. The EFTEON is a research infrastructure that is being developed under the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap program of the Department of Science and Technology. EFTEON is conceived as a modular, highly-networked research infrastructure to support studies on coupled ecological social systems in South Africa. EFTEON will focus on setting up a network of research infrastructure in a number of distributed landscapes, each representing [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00May 15th, 2019|People, SAPECS News|
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SAPECS winter school in social-ecological systems

15 – 19 JULY 2019, Stellenbosch, South Africa  The Southern African Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS) invites Masters’ and PhD students doing research at the interface of ecosystems and society to attend an introductory course on social-ecological systems, to be hosted by the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at Stellenbosch University. The field of social-ecological systems aims to support responses to the challenges of global environmental and societal change, particularly in terms of supporting improved environmental stewardship and addressing pressing challenges of poverty and inequality. Students and researchers who are studying these issues [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00April 8th, 2019|SAPECS News|
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Call for abstracts: 3rd Garden Route Interface Meeting (GRIM)

Science and management co-learning to navigate social-ecological issues  17-19 September 2019  Pine Lake Marina, Sedgefield, South Africa  Background: The Garden Route Interface Meeting (GRIM) is an annual event taking place in the Garden Route and providing a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in better understanding and managing (or navigating) social-ecological systems (SES) and their complex interactions and feedbacks. Three types of interfaces are of particular interest: human-nature (social-ecological systems), theory-practice (scientists and managers), and social-natural (sciences). Previous meetings: The 2017 and 2018 meetings each attracted >70 delegates and key discussion themes during these meetings included the establishment of [...]

2024-06-19T13:54:36+02:00March 13th, 2019|SAPECS News|
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