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The Stockholm Resilience Centre will host the conference Transformations2015 in Stockholm, Sweden 5-7 October 2015. For more information, visit the conference website. Transformations are often discussed as necessary to achieve a just society that thrives within planetary boundaries. The conference Transformations2015 will focus on transformations towards sustainability: the challenge of solving problems in the Anthropocene and creating conditions for good lives for people, today and in the future, while strengthening Earth's life support system. Located in Stockholm, the conference will gather people from various disciplines around the world to share cutting-edge research on [...]

Are you interested in complex networks, multiplex, interdependent networks and the like? This may be a great place to start. For full information on the summer school visit: https://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/ The summer school is organized by Manlio De Domenico and Alex Arenas in Salina (Italy, from the 3rd to the 8th of September). Brief Description of the Summer School: In the last decade, network theory has been revealed to be a perfect instrument to model the structure of complex systems and the dynamical process they are involved into. The wide variety [...]

Lecturership (x2) in Sustainability 50th Anniversary Lectureships Starting Salary between £33,242 - £39,685* Closing Date: Sunday 22 February 2015 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A1147 https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1147 This full-time research-focused post (equivalent to Assistant Professor) is designed to identify academic leaders of the future and is part of the University's long-term investment to further strengthen its academic standing as a world class University. The Rubin Foundation Charitable Trust has generously agreed to fund the creation of The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and the Rubin Chair in Sustainability in [...]

Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate to work on the project Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) working with Dr Roger Few. This position is based at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK. The post holder will take a full intellectual role in the development and conduct of ASSAR research and research-into-use activities in East Africa. You must have a PhD or equivalent qualification in environment and development, experience of research or applied work on climate [...]

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 [...]