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Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), Faculty of Sustainability invites applications for 2 new post doc positions within the  transdisciplinary project funded by the State of Lower Saxony and Volkswagen Foundation entitled: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge The first position (PD3a) “transdisciplinary case studies” contributes to the consolidation of the epistemological and methodological foundations of transdisciplinary case studies.  The themes of the case studies will revolve around the food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE). The second position (PD3b) “Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use” [...]

The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in Singapore, in a joint initiative between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Singapore’s National Research Foundation, is looking for a doctoral student to build a decision support system for planning urban green areas in mega-cities. For setting up such a spatially explicit decision support system, a highly skilled and motivated candidate is sought to work on the development of ecosystem services modeling techniques and 3D vegetation visualizations. The work is done in close collaboration with landscape architects, landscape ecologists, and [...]

  Following on from several successful previous workshops over the last seven years and due to popular demand, a workshop team from the University of St Andrews (CREEM), in conjunction with the ACCESS programme, the Namibian University of Technology (NUST) and the Southern African Institute of Environmental Assessment (SAIEA), will host a 4 day workshop in Windhoek, Namibia, to introduce participants to basic statistical modelling techniques. The course is open to everyone and will be heavily practical based (using real data examples), working directly with statistical software. There will be [...]

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future announces the request for proposals for their third round of Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability. This program is intended to stimulate original cross-disciplinary research and development of sustainable solutions that address the world’s most pressing problems in six focus areas: sustainable agriculture and food systems, energy transitions, one health, sustainable communities, new materials, and computational sustainability. Each fellow will have two advisers, a lead adviser from Cornell University and a collaborating adviser from an external non-university organization. More information is available on the website. Full applications are due on [...]

The first Conference of the Regional Africa chapter of the ESP (Ecosystem Services Partnership) will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on November 21-25 2016. The conference theme will be Ecosystem Services for SDGs in Africa. Discussions will focus on Africa’s contribution towards data and evidence on best practices for management and restoration of ecosystem services for decision making, particularly towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more information, please visit the conference website.