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Post-graduate Researcher (holding MSc or PhD degree): Operationalizing Ecosystem Services with Stakeholders in the European Wine Industry Limit of tenure: 2 years Extent: 100 % Location: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, Lund First day of employment: As soon as possible - Negotiable (latest September 1, 2015.) Official Records Number: PEPA 2014/994   Job Description: We invite applications for a two-year early-career research position for a candidate currently holding either a masters or doctoral degree, based at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Lund, Sweden. The [...]

JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme Jointly organized by the United Nations University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is designed to provide promising, highly qualified, young researchers with the opportunity to conduct advanced research relevant to the main thematic focus areas of the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS, Tokyo) and UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR, Tokyo), in co-operation with host researchers at Japanese universities and research institutions. This fellowship is aimed at candidates who have completed their [...]

This is a call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows to apply to join the Gauteng City- Region Observatory (GCRO), a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government and organized local government. The post-doctoral Fellowship is a University of Johannesburg fellowship, offered for a period of 18 months. All Post-Doc Fellows will be expected to publish scientific papers based on their PhD research work as well as to actively participate in other research projects being implemented by the GCRO. SCOPE OF POTENTIAL RESEARCH TOPICS: Among [...]

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is organizing a free online course on environmental justice. The course aims to increase understanding on how environmental change affects people, and how we can work together for justice in environmental management. The course considers environmental challenges such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change. Inscriptions are now open for a session starting on 30 March 2015. When: From 30 March onwards Duration: The course lasts for ten weeks and there are around 4 hours of lessons per week. Where: FutureLearn Platform For whom: [...]

We invite you to participate in the 6th Annual Earth System Governance Conference, co-hosted by the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. Key Dates Deadline for paper abstracts: 1 March 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Full papers due: 14 November 2015 Conference dates: 14-16 December 2015 Conference Theme 'Democracy and Resilience in the Anthropocene' is the overarching theme for the 2015 Canberra Conference on Earth System Governance. Resilience and the Anthropocene are increasingly prominent in contemporary narratives of global environmental change, with important implications for how [...]