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Invitation: Organisational Responses to Social-Ecological Complexity  12 February 2015, UCT Graduate School of Business You are invited to a discussion hosted by the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) Chair on organisational innovation and intermediation in social-­ecological systems. We seek a better theoretical and practically relevant understanding of why and how organisations – including in particular corporations and intermediaries – proactively respond to complex social and environmental problems. Researchers in the ACDI Chair will provide brief overviews of their analyses as a platform for discussion among researchers and practitioners. Kindly RSVP by 31 January 2015 to Lindie Botha at [...]

Applications are invited for a one year post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University. The candidate will join a vibrant research community in the department, and will work primarily on a project entitled: Fostering community based ecosystem stewardship in conjunction with ecological restoration efforts. The project will feed directly into an applied context where restoration efforts are underway in a communal area in South Africa. Suitably qualified candidates should have a background in community based research contexts, and preferably display a strong understanding of participatory development processes in developing countries. The [...]

The call for applications for the 3rd round of scholarship awards by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now open. Deadline: 15 Feb 2015. Candidates must be a citizen of a developing country and be no more than 30 years of age at the time of application. Candidates must have an admissions offer for PhD studies or be currently studying at PhD level at a university of their choice. Research proposals accepted for the third round of awards will fall under the following themes of study: * Climate [...]

Post-graduate Researcher (holding MSc or PhD degree): Operationalizing Ecosystem Services with Stakeholders in the European Wine Industry Limit of tenure: 2 years Extent: 100 % Location: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, Lund First day of employment: As soon as possible - Negotiable (latest September 1, 2015.) Official Records Number: PEPA 2014/994   Job Description: We invite applications for a two-year early-career research position for a candidate currently holding either a masters or doctoral degree, based at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Lund, Sweden. The [...]

JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme Jointly organized by the United Nations University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is designed to provide promising, highly qualified, young researchers with the opportunity to conduct advanced research relevant to the main thematic focus areas of the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS, Tokyo) and UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR, Tokyo), in co-operation with host researchers at Japanese universities and research institutions. This fellowship is aimed at candidates who have completed their [...]