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POSITION AVAILABLE: Knowledge and Learning Support | Tsitsa Project
The Tsitsa Project is being implemented in the communal and commercial areas of the north-eastern Eastern Cape. The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) working with local authorities and traditional leaders, conducts land restoration in the highly erodible Tsitsa river catchment, while a number of South African universities conduct related research in this remote rural landscape. Rhodes University has been contracted by DEFF to provide support on various research-praxis aspects to the project. This is done through numerous ‘Communities of Practice’ (CoP) which bring together researchers, managers, and local [...]
MASTERS OPPORTUNITY: Tsitsa Project Knowledge and Learning Community of Practice
We invite expressions of interest for a new opportunity with the Tsitsa Project in 2020: 1x Masters Bursary to conduct research in the Knowledge and Learning Community of Practice. The Tsitsa Project is being implemented in the communal and commercial areas of the north-eastern Eastern Cape. The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) working with local authorities and traditional leaders, conducts land restoration in the highly erodible Tsitsa river catchment, while a number of South African universities conduct related research in this remote rural landscape. Rhodes University has been [...]
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON)
The Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON) is a Research Infrastructure (RI) that is being developed under the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (SARIR) program of the Department of Science and Technology. EFTEON is conceived as a modular, highly-networked RI to support studies on coupled ecological social systems in South Africa. The design concept is based on distributed landscapes, each with responsibility for representing an important South African Ecosystem/Human complex. The landscapes are intended to include representatives of major biomes in South Africa and human transformed ecosystems such as urban areas and agricultural systems. The landscapes are [...]
Call for applications: Masters bursaries for 2020 – Agricultural trade networks, ecosystem services and human well-being, regime shifts
Call for applications: Masters bursaries for 2020 Agricultural trade networks, ecosystem services and human well-being, regime shifts Deadline for applications: 25 January 2020 Introduction A Masters bursary focusing on one of several potential topics is available for 2020, based at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at Stellenbosch University. The CST (http://www.sun.ac.za/cst/) builds on a strong history of transdisciplinary research and complexity studies and hosts leading scientists and students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, providing a vibrant hub for solution-oriented, transdisciplinary, sustainability science. The primary objective of the CST [...]
Call for applications: Masters and PhD bursaries for 2020 – Seeds of Good Anthropocenes Initiative
Call for applications: Masters and PhD bursaries for 2020 Seeds of Good Anthropocenes Initiative: Building sustainable, just and resilient futures in southern Africa Deadline for applications: 20 January 2020 Project background It is increasingly apparent that a fundamental reorganization of our societies is necessary to achieve a just society for all, while maintaining the environmental conditions that underlie human prosperity. As highlighted by major global initiatives such as Future Earth (https://futureearth.org/), escalating global challenges such as climate change, food and water security, biodiversity loss, socio‐political conflict and economic volatility, demand [...]
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