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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 [...]

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTALIST REF NO: 21000024 DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT & PLANNING UNIT ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN AND CLIMATE PROTECT DEPARTMENT Total Remuneration Package R535 221.00 / R676 637.00 pa Grade 14   Benefits included in the Total Value of Remuneration Package Range (Pension, 13th Cheque, Medical Aid, Housing Subsidy& Locomotion) are payable in accordance with the rules/requirements of the respective benefit schemes and any revisions that may occur from time to time which may alter the Total Value of Remuneration Package. In addition other allowances may be payable (where applicable). Job Purpose: [...]

This is an announcement for six tenured positions in Australia - in social science, computational biology, and ecology. Also available are six Postdoctoral Fellowships (see below). Coral Reef Research Leaders James Cook University (JCU), in partnership with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, is seeking to recruit up to six outstanding mid-career to established career coral reef research fellows to tenured positions in Townsville. Appointees will make a major contribution to their field of expertise and drive research development and collaboration with national and international partners. [...]

Don't miss your chance to interact and exchange ideas with the rapidly growing network of ESP members, practitioners, educators, policy-makers, researchers, and many others from all continents. Be part of special sessions and working-groups producing outcomes ranging from journal articles, white papers, book chapters, grant proposals, database structures, websites, and much more. Important deadlines 15 August: deadline registration for (free) pre-conference trainings 1 September: closing conference registration   For more information click here.    

Welcome to the Transitions for Sustainable Development Social Science e-Conference Transitions for Sustainable Development – Social scientists meeting the challenge How are we as social scientists meeting the challenges of our changing global environment? Social science research can help us: better comprehend the complex dynamics of linked social-ecological systems, and explain how to manage our development to support resilient communities and ecosystems. This e-conference builds directly on the World Social Science Report (2013). It recognises that global environmental changes have potentially grave consequences for the well-being and security of people all over [...]