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Call for applications: Short-term internships at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition
SARChI Research Chair in Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience Hosted by the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition at Stellenbosch University Call for applications: Short Internships for 2016 Deadline for applications: 30 July 2016 Escalating global challenges such as climate change, food and water security, biodiversity loss, socio-political conflict and economic [...]
Call for applications: Postdoctoral fellowship on Social-Ecological Regime Shifts
Deadline for applications: 30 July 2016 We live in a new planetary era – the Anthropocene - where human activities have become a major driver of ecosystem dynamics at local to global scales. There is growing evidence that anthropogenic impacts are increasing the risk of transgressing tipping points that could [...]
New paper on transdisciplinary research to bridge the science-action gap in local land-use planning
SAPECS-affiliated researchers Jessica Cockburn and Mathieu Rouget, together with a team of researchers and practitioners working in the eThekwini Municipal Area (Durban, South Africa), recently published a paper on bridging the science-action gap in the journal Ecology and Society. Through presenting empirical insights and lessons learnt from a local collaboration [...]
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Postdoctoral position with The Natural Capital Project: modeling urban ecosystem services
Natural Capital Project Postdoctoral Associate Understanding and modeling urban ecosystem services The Natural Capital Project at Stanford seeks a creative and independent researcher to support the development of models, tools, and approaches to assess urban ecosystem services. The postdoc will lead the technical development of the models and their application in case studies in the U.S. and internationally. The position will be based with The Natural Capital Project at Stanford University, [...]
Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School
The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School seeks to recruit its third cohort of Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Bacon Fellowship brings together emerging leaders from the government, business, and the NGO communities eager to take up the mantle of environmental leadership by bringing new ideas and innovation to the policies and programs that preserve and enhance our shared environment. The Louis Bacon [...]
Call for Applicants for SASAC Doctoral Scholarships for Research using a Systems Analysis Methodology – 2018
The Southern African Systems Analysis Centre (SASAC), launched in November 2011 is a multi-year initiative coordinated by the University of the Western Cape, in partnership with the Universities’ of Limpopo and the Witwatersrand, and Stellenbosch. This initiative takes cognisance of additional and multi-level systems analysis capacity interventions, and a comprehensive approach to policy related activities in South- and Southern Africa. SASAC has dedicated three-year bursaries for South African and Africa PhD students based at a South African university [...]