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SANParks is re-advertising the rather exciting post-doc position for someone versed in a combination of complexity thinking, management of social-ecological systems, systems thinking, social/organizational learning and/or institutional change. Closing date is the 30th of September . Please see below for more information: Systemic futures post-doc - readvert (Sept 2014)    

Are you concerned about our future cities? Do you want to discuss theories and explore practices of urban sustainable development across disciplines and experiences? Apply to the Stockholm Resilience Centre for a Masters course in "Urban Social-Ecological Systems", March-June 2015, before October 15. For more information, visit the course website!

Google Earth Outreach is planning some exciting activities for the IUCN World Parks Congress in November 2014 in Sydney, Australia!   Prior to the Congress, we are hosting a 2-day in-depth hands-on workshop to help build the technical capacity of park managers, researchers, and communities. In this workshop, participants will gain technical training on Google mapping software tools “from the ground to the cloud.” Led by the Google Earth Outreach and Earth Engine teams, the workshop will teach participants how to use these tools to raise awareness, reach common understanding, [...]

“Multi-functional farming systems in a changing world” Le Corum conference center, Montpellier, France 7 - 10 September  2015 FSD is an informal interdisciplinary scientific community of practice to promote research and capacity building on farming systems design. The core is science: “The research focus of the FSD community is the farm system level, the interactions and feedbacks at lower and higher levels of integration and the tools and methods required for understanding and implementing multi-functional farming systems expressing good trade-offs between agricultural production and ecosystems services ”. Each symposium brings [...]

About the Course Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet gives students an overview of a range of emerging concepts within sustainability science, like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, and resilience. These concepts are at the core of contemporary research and debate on global sustainability. They are key to frame and understand rapidly changing trends in global environmental change caused by humans, and to assess responses that aim at reversing global environmental change. They also help exploring pathways for ensuring safe and [...]