PECS-3: Pathways to sustainability

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the PECS 3 conference will take place from 12 August – 15 August 2024, in Montreal, Canada. Calls for organised oral symposia and innovative sessions are now open, until 15 November 2023 and can be submitted on the conference webpage.  Call for contributed abstracts will open in November.

2023-10-03T13:48:49+02:00October 3rd, 2023|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

GRIN Meeting: 1st Announcement and Call for Abstracts

The Garden Route Interface and Networking (GRIN) Meeting is an annual event taking place in the Garden Route of South Africa, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners (from anywhere in the world) interested in better understanding and managing (or navigating) social-ecological systems and their complex interactions and feedbacks. Three types of interfaces are of particular interest to GRIN deliberations: human-nature (social-ecological systems), theory-practice (scientists and managers), and social-natural (sciences).

2023-05-03T13:11:44+02:00May 3rd, 2023|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

POSITION OFFERED: Conservation Strategy Officer

A full-time position supporting the Lead of Conservation Strategy and Management. The role requires strong interpersonal and project management skills and extensive experience developing protected area management plans and conservation strategies — a great opportunity to generate positive and realised impacts on conservation practices.

2023-04-22T15:48:52+02:00April 22nd, 2023|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

SAPECS community of practice: A decade of progress in social-ecological systems research

The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS) is excited to share the recent publication of an article that highlights the incredible work that our team has been doing over the past decade. The article, titled "The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society: an emergent community of practice," was recently published in Ecosystems and People and is a testament to the incredible work that our team has been doing over the past decade to build capacity and knowledge in support of more sustainable, just, and equitable futures. The article provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the [...]

2023-02-20T14:08:01+02:00February 20th, 2023|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|

POSITION OFFERED: Future Ecosystems for Africa Project Coordinator, WITS UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND FACULTY OF SCIENCE Future Ecosystems for Africa Project Coordinator (AD.09) Description: Future Ecosystems For Africa (https://futureecosystemsafrica.org/ ) is a research partnership between the Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Exeter. FEFA aims to establish, together with African project collaborators, an Africa-led, Africa-centred programme to drive change on the continent. FEFA is centred on the notion that Africa has a unique, but temporary, opportunity to guide development onto nature-supporting, rather than nature-eroding paths. Herein it prioritises ecosystem-based interventions of protection and rehabilitation, identifying whose voices need to be included [...]

2023-01-20T13:59:34+02:00January 20th, 2023|Related News & Events, SAPECS News|
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