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Google Earth Outreach is planning some exciting activities for the IUCN World Parks Congress in November 2014 in Sydney, Australia!   Prior to the Congress, we are hosting a 2-day in-depth hands-on workshop to help build the technical capacity of park managers, researchers, and communities. In this workshop, participants will gain technical training on Google mapping software tools “from the ground to the cloud.” Led by the Google Earth Outreach and Earth Engine teams, the workshop will teach participants how to use these tools to raise awareness, reach common understanding, [...]

“Multi-functional farming systems in a changing world” Le Corum conference center, Montpellier, France 7 - 10 September  2015 FSD is an informal interdisciplinary scientific community of practice to promote research and capacity building on farming systems design. The core is science: “The research focus of the FSD community is the farm system level, the interactions and feedbacks at lower and higher levels of integration and the tools and methods required for understanding and implementing multi-functional farming systems expressing good trade-offs between agricultural production and ecosystems services ”. Each symposium brings [...]

About the Course Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet gives students an overview of a range of emerging concepts within sustainability science, like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, and resilience. These concepts are at the core of contemporary research and debate on global sustainability. They are key to frame and understand rapidly changing trends in global environmental change caused by humans, and to assess responses that aim at reversing global environmental change. They also help exploring pathways for ensuring safe and [...]

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTALIST REF NO: 21000024 DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT & PLANNING UNIT ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN AND CLIMATE PROTECT DEPARTMENT Total Remuneration Package R535 221.00 / R676 637.00 pa Grade 14   Benefits included in the Total Value of Remuneration Package Range (Pension, 13th Cheque, Medical Aid, Housing Subsidy& Locomotion) are payable in accordance with the rules/requirements of the respective benefit schemes and any revisions that may occur from time to time which may alter the Total Value of Remuneration Package. In addition other allowances may be payable (where applicable). Job Purpose: [...]

This is an announcement for six tenured positions in Australia - in social science, computational biology, and ecology. Also available are six Postdoctoral Fellowships (see below). Coral Reef Research Leaders James Cook University (JCU), in partnership with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, is seeking to recruit up to six outstanding mid-career to established career coral reef research fellows to tenured positions in Townsville. Appointees will make a major contribution to their field of expertise and drive research development and collaboration with national and international partners. [...]