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Closing date: 24 August 2016. Project description and main responsibilities We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to form part of the secretariat of the new EAT-Lancet commission on Health Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, placed at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. EAT (www.eatforum.org) is a global multi-stakeholder platform and international consortium advancing knowledge and solutions for healthy and sustainable food systems through dialogue and action between science, policy and business. The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is an international research center, by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University, that advances sustainability [...]

Project overview and responsibilities A PhD in the field of rangeland rehabilitation is being offered by the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, as part of a Global Environment Facility funded sustainable land management project in South Africa (GEF5-SLM). The PhD involves researching and assisting with the implementation of best practices in rangeland rehabilitation in degraded communal-rural rangelands in the Eastern Cape and possibly abroad. The research forms part of the broader GEF5-SLM project being implemented at three main sites in South Africa: Macubeni and the Baviaanskloof in the Eastern [...]

Faculty: AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University Department or Division: Dean’s division – Food Systems Short description of Department’s / Division’s activities: The role of private companies and other non-state actors is of growing importance in food security and land use issues in southern Africa. These include major ‘up-stream’ and ‘down-stream’ actors in the food system, including those engaged in agricultural inputs, food processing, marketing, intraregional trading, a range of nongovernmental organisations and the food aid sectors. Their decisions ultimately strongly influence land use, and the concomitant impacts on soils, water, carbon sequestration [...]

Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), Faculty of Sustainability invites applications for 2 new post doc positions within the  transdisciplinary project funded by the State of Lower Saxony and Volkswagen Foundation entitled: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge The first position (PD3a) “transdisciplinary case studies” contributes to the consolidation of the epistemological and methodological foundations of transdisciplinary case studies.  The themes of the case studies will revolve around the food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE). The second position (PD3b) “Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use” [...]

The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in Singapore, in a joint initiative between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Singapore’s National Research Foundation, is looking for a doctoral student to build a decision support system for planning urban green areas in mega-cities. For setting up such a spatially explicit decision support system, a highly skilled and motivated candidate is sought to work on the development of ecosystem services modeling techniques and 3D vegetation visualizations. The work is done in close collaboration with landscape architects, landscape ecologists, and [...]