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Project update: Governance of Ecosystem Services under Scenarios of Change

For two years, PhD students Vanessa Masterson and Maike Hamann have explored the links between ecosystem services, human well-being and sense of place in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. At the local scale, Vanessa has spent five months in the Centane district on the Wild Coast, conducting interviews and focus group discussions with villagers and migrant workers about their connection to the landscape, small-scale farming and the use of natural resources. She has also used participatory methods including photovoice and community mapping to characterize the sense of place of small-scale farmers and their migrant family networks, and explored [...]

2013-12-16T12:23:13+02:00December 16th, 2013|SAPECS News|

Multi-scale adaptations to climate change in coastal areas in France, South Africa and the United Kingdom

A team from Arizona State University, CIRAD, IRSTEA and CEFE (France), Exeter University and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, lead by SAPECS member Christo Fabricius, have recently received funding from the Belmont Forum for a three-year study to assess adaptations and perceptions of risk and vulnerability in coastal areas. Called MAGIC (Multi-scale Adaptations to Global change In Coastlines), the project addresses a classical wicked problem: how to respond appropriately to risk and vulnerability in coastal zones. Team members include Resilience Alliance members Marty Anderies, Olivier Barreteau, Katrina Brown, Francois Bousquet, Raphael Mathevet and Christo Fabricius (project leader).   With threats coming [...]

2013-11-18T08:30:25+02:00November 18th, 2013|SAPECS News|

Research opportunities at the UCT Graduate School of Business

We invite applications for Masters, PhD, and postdoctoral positions to conduct research on organisational innovation and intermediation in social-ecological systems. Successful applicants will become part of a team of researchers led by Prof Ralph Hamann at the UCT Graduate School of Business, in collaboration with other members of the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town. The overarching purpose of this research programme is to generate theoretically and practically relevant knowledge on why and how organisations innovate to respond to social-ecological problems. We focus on large businesses, municipalities, or collaborative intermediaries, and the geographic setting for [...]

2013-11-13T13:27:40+02:00November 13th, 2013|Related News & Events|

Positions in “Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods”

Applications are invited for one post-doctoral, two PhD and two Masters positions with the DST/NRF Chair in "Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods" in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Applications are invited from social, economic and natural scientists interested in research on the use, trade and management of biological natural resources in local livelihoods. Standard NRF level bursaries are available. Commencing date is February 2014.   Closing date: 25th November 2013.   For more details, please visit www.ru.ac.za/static/departments/environsci/documents/Masters&phd/Advert%20for%202014%20cohort.pdf

2013-11-05T10:52:46+02:00November 5th, 2013|SAPECS News|

Green Economy intern position

  The Green Economy manager in the Western Cape Provincial Government, Charline Mouton, is looking to appoint an intern for a year. The intern will a) assist in the implementation of Green Economy projects covering a variety of sub sectors, i.e. waste, water, built environment etc.; and b) assist with the 110% Green programme, including managing social media and website content; and c) provide general support to the Green Economy programme.   Requirements: Masters level student, preferably someone that has taken courses in Environmental Economics in their 4th year. Ideally, the candidate should be able to start in December 2013 or January [...]

2013-10-23T14:53:25+02:00October 23rd, 2013|Related News & Events|

Doctoral studentship at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

  Ref.nr SU FV-2901-13 Closing date: 2013-11-20   Project title: Middlemen as crucial social-ecological linkages for achieving sustainable small-scale fisheries   Project description Understanding how global drivers, such as seafood trade, affect relations between fishers and market agents is essential to increase fishers’ returns, reduce poverty and better sustain fisheries resources. Curbing exploitation locally has focused on restricting fishers’ effort, but global demands create exogenous pressure that is hard for small-scale operators to withstand. Hence, management must extend up the commodity chain and middlemen are an important link. They provide fishers with incentives, markets access, and many services but little [...]

2013-10-23T14:00:31+02:00October 23rd, 2013|Related News & Events|

MSc or MA bursary: Bio-Cultural Values and Sense of Place

  MSc or MA bursary available 2014 - 2015: One Masters level bursary (R80 000 pa with additional funding for field costs) is available for an exciting interdisciplinary project in the Eastern Cape and Cape Town, and based at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Title: Bio-Cultural values and sense of place: implications for personal well-being of urban migrants We seek a motivated and enthusiastic student to conduct Masters research as part of an interdisciplinary team exploring the cultural and spiritual significance of nature in the context of labour migration and its implications for conservation and social-ecological system function. This research project forms [...]

2013-10-23T12:58:49+02:00October 23rd, 2013|SAPECS News|

STEPS Centre Summer School – Applications now open

STEPS Centre Summer School University of Sussex, 12-23 May 2014 The STEPS Centre invites applications to take part in its third annual Summer School.   Applications are invited from highly-motivated doctoral and postdoctoral researchers or those with equivalent experience, working in fields around development studies, science and technology studies, innovation and policy studies, and across agricultural, health, water or energy issues.   Participants will explore the theme of pathways to sustainability through a mixture of workshops, lectures, outdoor events and focused interaction with STEPS Centre members. The Summer School takes place on the Sussex University campus, near Brighton, UK.   [...]

2013-10-08T09:05:20+02:00October 8th, 2013|Related News & Events|

Luc Hoffmann Institute / SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Socio-Environmental Systems

Two-year fellowship available immediately to work with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate the impacts of marine conservation interventions, focusing on analyzing monitoring data for marine protected areas. Fellow will be in residence at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) facilities at the University of Maryland in Annapolis, MD, and will also spend significant time at WWF-US offices in Washington, D.C. For earliest consideration, apply by October 20, 2013. The Luc Hoffmann Institute, based at WWF International, Switzerland, in partnership with the National Social-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), seeks a postdoctoral fellow to work with an interdisciplinary Pursuit/Collaborative Research Team (CRT) to evaluate [...]

2013-10-04T12:15:55+02:00October 4th, 2013|Related News & Events|

Launch of the Network for Business Sustainability South Africa (NBS:SA)

It is with pleasure that we share with you the launch of the Network for Business Sustainability South Africa (NBS:SA), an affiliate of the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS). NBS is an award-winning, internationally recognised initiative linking research and practice. Established as a non-profit, NBS is a powerful and growing network of international academic experts and business leaders. NBS produces authoritative resources on important sustainability issues – with the goal of shaping management practice and research. NBS:SA has adapted the NBS model to respond to the South African context, in order to better make use of and to build the [...]

2013-10-03T15:39:31+02:00October 3rd, 2013|Related News & Events|
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