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INVITATION FOR A SYMPOSIUM PRIVATE INVESTMENTS IN NATURE CONSERVATION: STUDYING MOTIVES AND BENEFITS   Date: October 20th, 2014 Time: 09.00 – 16.00 hours (Tea and Coffee: 8:30 – 09:00) Venue: Seminar Room 1 (5th Floor), Environmental & Geographical Science Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Organizers: Maano Ramutsindela (UCT) & Marja Spierenburg (VU Amsterdam)   PROGRAMME: Introductions: 09:00 – 09:15   Session 1: Chair Maano Ramutsindela Presentation 1: 09:15 – 10:15 Neoliberal Nature and African Agency : Eco-tourism, trophy hunting and the commodification of nature in akuleke Contract Park, South Africa (Steven Robins [...]

The GreenMatter Fellowship Mapula Awards are focused on developing higher level skills for the UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves in South Africa. Biosphere Reserves provide significant potential for incorporating socio-ecological benefits with traditional land management and are a national conservation focus. The Mapula Award (Mapula meaning mother of rain) symbolizes the seeding environment that the founding award partners GreenMatter, The Mapula Foundation, Stellenbosch University and the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), amongst others, are creating to decrease the scarcity levels by providing holistic development opportunities for local talent in Biosphere Reserve research and management. Applicants [...]

The National Research Foundation (NRF) is responsible for the management of the DST-NRF Internship Programme in which unemployed Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) graduates and postgraduates are offered an opportunity to acquire practical work experience through mentoring and exposure to a research environment. This opportunity is also offered to those unemployed graduates and postgraduates who are interested in research management; research support and administration at public higher education institutions and research agencies through a partnership with the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA). Applications are invited from candidates [...]

ACDI is proudly hosting Prof Carl Folke at UCT on October 16th in the Kramer LT, Middle Campus at 17:00. Prof Folke, from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, will be talking about Reconnecting Development to the Biosphere. Please click on this advertisement for more details (RSVP by 10 October).

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town is delighted to announce the launch in February 2015 of a new M Phil programme specializing in the Environmental Humanities, co-taught across a range of disciplines in the Humanities with the active participation of colleagues in the Law, Science, and Engineering faculties.   Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, we are able to offer three full Masters scholarships, and two three-year doctoral fellowships, as well as a post-doctoral fellowship. Applications are due October 31 2014.   For further information, please [...]