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SAPECS researchers win Engagement Excellence Award
SAPECS-affiliated researcher and working group member Christo Fabricius and his team at the Sustainability Research Unit (SRU) have been awarded the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Engagement Excellence Award (Team Award) for 2014. This award recognizes excellence in academic engagement activities that are essentially educational in nature, and aim to [...]
Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Urban Futures Dialogue
We would like to invite you to attend a workshop and dialogue session on “Seeds of Good Anthropocenes”, focussing on the urban environment. Please see this note for details. We can also confirm that our two keynote speakers will be Prof Mark Swilling from the Sustainability Institute at the University [...]
New video on “How to Apply Resilience Thinking”
Based on the recently published book “Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems”, the Stockholm Resilience Centre has put together a video explaining the seven principles for applying a resilience approach and building resilience in social-ecological systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIwVqdVJxpI For more information, please visit the "Applying Resilience Thinking" website [...]
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Convenor and Lecturer for MSc/MPhil specialising in Climate Change and Sustainable Development
1 Year Fixed term contract, 50% full time equivalent The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and Department of Environmental and Geographical Science (EGS) at the University of Cape Town is seeking to appoint a convenor/lecturer for the interdisciplinary MSC/MPhil in Climate Change and Sustainable Development, that is convened by the ACDI, and hosted academically by EGS. The Lecturer/Convenor will teach on, and manage academic and administrative aspects of the [...]
Resident Lecturer: Undergraduate Study Abroad Programme in Savanna/Fynbos Ecology, Kruger National Park
The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) (www.tropicalstudies.org) seeks applicants for its field-based undergraduate programme in Savanna/Fynbos ecology, run in partnership with the Universities of Cape Town (UCT) and Witwatersrand (WITS) and South African National Parks. This course, based in Skukuza, Kruger National Park, accepts students from both South Africa and the USA. We are seeking to fill the post in January 2017. It is a five-year grant-funded contract with probation, [...]
Governance survey: Help shape the research agenda for improving ecosystem service governance
ecoSERVICES, a research project of Future Earth, is committed to co-designing a research agenda aimed at deepening our understanding of the governance of ecosystem services. ecoServices aims to bring together the variety of voices present in the global ecosystem services knowledge community in order to shape governance research in this area. In order to achieve this, a short 5-minute survey has been developed that asks participants to identify, based on their own experience, what they feel are the 3 most compelling [...]