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This is a call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows to apply to join the Gauteng City- Region Observatory (GCRO), a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government and organized local government. The post-doctoral Fellowship is a University of Johannesburg fellowship, offered for a period of 18 months. All Post-Doc Fellows will be expected to publish scientific papers based on their PhD research work as well as to actively participate in other research projects being implemented by the GCRO. SCOPE OF POTENTIAL RESEARCH TOPICS: Among [...]

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is organizing a free online course on environmental justice. The course aims to increase understanding on how environmental change affects people, and how we can work together for justice in environmental management. The course considers environmental challenges such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change. Inscriptions are now open for a session starting on 30 March 2015. When: From 30 March onwards Duration: The course lasts for ten weeks and there are around 4 hours of lessons per week. Where: FutureLearn Platform For whom: [...]

We invite you to participate in the 6th Annual Earth System Governance Conference, co-hosted by the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. Key Dates Deadline for paper abstracts: 1 March 2015 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2015 Full papers due: 14 November 2015 Conference dates: 14-16 December 2015 Conference Theme 'Democracy and Resilience in the Anthropocene' is the overarching theme for the 2015 Canberra Conference on Earth System Governance. Resilience and the Anthropocene are increasingly prominent in contemporary narratives of global environmental change, with important implications for how [...]

The South African Young Water Professionals (YWP) cordially invite all young professionals from water sectors across Africa to attend the combined 4th YWP-ZA Biennial & 1st African YWP Conference! To be held at the CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa The conference theme is “Stop talking, Start doing”. This theme aims to bring academic research together with professionals working in implementation contexts in order to facilitate an awareness of how to apply knowledge and solutions in contexts where they can make a difference. In addition, it will create a [...]

Funding is available for one PhD and three MSc projects, which fit into a bigger research programme on the effects of bush encroachment on the herbaceous layer: mechanisms, feedbacks and thresholds. The project team comprises Susi Vetter and Brad Ripley (Botany Department, Rhodes University) and Sally Archibald (School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, Wits). Background and project information: Bush encroachment is global phenomenon that has important impacts on grassy ecosystems, causing potentially rapid shifts to functionally distinct forest or thicket. Key to the regime shift between grassland and forest appears to be the loss of [...]