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The Global Landscapes Initiative is hiring one or more postdoctoral research fellows to study how the connections between land use change, agriculture, and the environment affect risks to the global food system. Our research group of 10+ people draws on a broad set of skills to identify solutions to major global challenges, publish research in high-profile academic journals, and offers great opportunities for interdisciplinary work. The research is highly collaborative both within the team, with other research groups at the Institute on the Environment, and with other leading academic and [...]

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:  Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-­Economy Applications are invited for a post-­doctoral research fellowship on the bio-­economy, beginning early 2016. The position will be based in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation Research Chair on Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy. We seek an energetic and motivated scholar to join a growing team of researchers working on these issues and to conduct her or his own research within one [...]

One fixed-term internship and staff position (until 31 Dec 2016) available at AWARD in Hoedspruit, Limpopo Overview of AWARD and RESILIM-O This opportunity is offered through the Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD; www.award.org.za) under the RESILIM-O programme. AWARD is a research-based NGO that has had a 15-year focus on water resources policy, management and livelihoods. More recently we have an increased focus on biodiversity. We work on systemic and social learning approaches to water issues at local and catchment-scales nationally and internationally, mainly water-sharing between South Africa and Mozambique. AWARD [...]

Anticipation is coming to the fore as an emerging field of study that is influencing a wide variety of disciplines. This international conference will explore the interaction among anticipation, uncertainty and complexity. Some questions that we intend to raise are these: When does anticipation occur in behavior and life? What types of anticipation can be distinguished? What structures and processes are necessary for anticipatory action? How can anticipation be modeled? A better and more complete understanding of anticipation and its effects will improve theories and models of individual and collective human behavior and its [...]

Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), Faculty of Sustainability invites expressions of interest for 8 new PhD positions within a new, trans-disciplinary project funded by the State of Lower Saxony and Volkswagen Foundation entitled: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge About the project Understanding how changes in interconnected social-ecological systems facilitate the transformation to sustainability represents one of the key challenges of sustainability science. Drawing on insights from systems thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto under-recognized leverage points – system properties [...]