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Third Resilience Academy - Enhancing resilience to minimize loss and damage - providing knowledge for the UNFCCC https://ehs.unu.edu/article/read/third-resilience-academy-call-for-applications In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impact of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands and exposed coastal regions as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. People on the frontlines of climate change face severe risks from extreme weather and slow onset processes, including coastal inundation, [...]

International Summer School: "How to model human decision making in social-ecological agent-based models" For PhD Students and early Postdocs modelling social-ecological systems in the context of natural resource use From 5 July to 10 July 2015 in Kohren-Sahlis (near Leipzig, Germany) More info: https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=33352

Research Fellowship: Ecosystem Resilience and Bio-Physical Process Bangor University - School of Ocean Sciences Salary: £31,324 to £37,394 (Grade 7) p.a. Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Contract / Temporary Placed on: 29th December 2014 Closes: 4th February 2015 Job Ref: BU00781 Bangor University, Cardiff University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) invite applications for a 44-month, full-time Research Fellowship to investigate how coastal and estuarine landscapes are shaped by interactions of biological resilience with environmental change. Salt marshes are important for flood protection, but undergo sudden shifts [...]

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's (NMMU) Sustainability Research Unit (www.nmmu.ac.za/sru) is recruiting Master’s and Doctoral students who are passionate about collaborative action research, complexity and adaptive co-management of social-ecological systems. Our over-all objective with this action research programme is to work with stakeholders towards adaptive environmental stewardship, using the Garden Route as a ‘laboratory’ for transformation. We offer: Some leeway to pursue your own interests, within the conceptual frameworks of social-ecological resilience, adaptive co-management, social learning, environmental stewardship and participatory action research in the Garden Route; Linkages to networks of [...]

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 [...]