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The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School seeks to recruit its third cohort of Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Bacon Fellowship brings together emerging leaders from the government, business, and the NGO communities eager to take up the mantle of environmental leadership by bringing new ideas and innovation to the policies and  programs that preserve and enhance our shared environment. The Louis Bacon Environmental Fellows come to Harvard and connect with highly accomplished national and international leaders, who provide them with both knowledge [...]

The Southern African Systems Analysis Centre (SASAC), launched in November 2011 is a multi-year initiative coordinated by the University of the Western Cape, in partnership with the Universities’ of Limpopo and the Witwatersrand, and Stellenbosch. This initiative takes cognisance of additional and multi-level systems analysis capacity interventions, and a comprehensive approach to policy related activities in South- and Southern Africa. SASAC has dedicated three-year bursaries for South African and Africa PhD students based at a South African university to complete their studies with a supervisor from South Africa, experienced in systems analysis, possibly in collaboration with a co-supervisor [...]

Natural Capital Project Postdoctoral Associate Advancing hydrologic modeling for ecosystem services The Natural Capital Project at Stanford seeks a creative and application-oriented hydrologist to support the assessment of hydrologic ecosystem services and targeting of land management and development choices. The focal hydrological services are water regulation (flood mitigation, baseflow regulation) and sedimentation. The postdoc will support development of a parsimonious flood risk model and application of existing watershed hydrology models in innovative ways to support two studies on the valuation and prioritization of land management activities to support ecosystem services. [...]

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE RESEARCH COORDINATOR FOR THE DURBAN RESEARCH ACTION PARTNERSHIP (PEROMNES GRADE 8) THREE YEAR FIXED TERM APPOINTMENT SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES PIETERMARITZBURG CAMPUS REF NO. LS03/2017 The School seeks a Research Coordinator to assist the NRF Chair in the successful implementation of the eThekwini-UKZN research partnership by coordinating all research activities related to the Durban Research Action Partnership (D’RAP). The Durban Research Action Partnership (D’RAP) is a research partnership of the eThekwini Municipality’s Environmental Planning and Climate Protection Department (EPCPD) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal [...]

A PhD Autumn School that will take part in Aveiro, Portugal in October. This Autumn School is part of the Marie Curie project SUSPLACE (Sustainable Place Shaping). See the flyer attached to this email for more info and links to websites. This autumn school is directed at PhDs and Early Stage Researchers interested in transformations to sustainability, with a particular focus on place-based development, grassroots innovations, and adaptive governance. Besides SRC’s own Maria Tengö, other lecturers will be Katherine Gibson (Western Sydney University), Adrian Smith (SPRU/STEPS Centre), Celeste Coelho (University [...]