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Reminder: 2nd Garden Route Interface Meeting: Call for abstracts

This is a friendly reminder that the abstract for the 2nd Garden Route Interface Meeting are due by 31 May 2018. Pine Lake Marina have reserved limited accommodation for our group.  Please book your accommodation as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.  Please mention the conference name when making your booking. Important Dates: Abstract submission no later than 31 May 2018 Registration and final payment no later than 30 July 2018

2019-04-04T09:05:04+02:00May 15th, 2018|SAPECS News|

PhD position on the role of global regimes in sustainability transitions

The Department of Environmental Social Sciences (ESS) is looking for a PhD candidate in the Innovation Studies group (Cirus) at Eawag, within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). Eawag conducts research, education and expert consulting to achieve the dual goals of meeting direct human needs for water and maintaining the function and integrity of aquatic ecosystems. The student will be supervised by Dr. Christian Binz and formally enrolled at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland, Prof. Olivier Crevoisier) and Utrecht University (the Netherlands, Prof. Bernhard Truffer), where she/he will be able to profit from a high quality research environment in economic geography and innovation/transition studies. The [...]

2018-05-15T09:44:20+02:00May 15th, 2018|Related News & Events|

Free online course on resilience thinking for transforming development practice – starts April 30

With concerns about climate and global environmental changes, extreme events, and increases in social, economic, and political shocks, the concept of resilience is proving useful across a range of sectors as a way to understand and respond to a turbulent and often surprise-riddled world. Resilience thinking is more than a theory, more than a set of tools. It is a way of seeing the world, offering a new perspective of how change in the world happens. Resilience thinking provides a new approach for building understanding and taking action. The Sida funded programme, Guidance for Resilience in the Anthropocene: Investments for [...]

2018-04-16T07:07:38+02:00April 16th, 2018|Related News & Events|

PhD position with the Rhodes University Sustainable Land Management for Rural Resilience Project (RU-SLMRR)

The Rhodes University Sustainable Land Management for Rural Resilience Project (RU-SLMRR) that forms part of a broader Global Environment Facility 5 (GE5F) funded sustainable land management (SLM) project implemented in South Africa is seeking a PhD candidate to investigate barriers and enablers to community-driven natural resources governance in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The study will be focussed at Macubeni and Baviaanskloof communal farmlands in the Eastern Cape, but may be upscaled to the other GEF5 SLM Project sites if time permits. The project period is from April 2018-April 2021. Requirements A valid driver’s license; Fluency in IsiXhosa is preferred; [...]

2018-03-14T14:23:28+02:00March 14th, 2018|Related News & Events|

2nd Garden Route Interface Meeting: Call for abstracts

The Garden Route Interface meeting is an annual event taking place in the Garden Route, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in better understanding and managing (or navigating) SES and their complex interactions and feedbacks. The 2017 meeting attracted 75 delegates and important discussion themes included the establishment of long-term social-ecological research sites, methods for and challenges in studying SES, sustainable resource use, adaptations and transformations in SES, ecosystem services and benefit flows, ways in which people connect with nature, and advice for bridging science-management divides. This year the meeting will be held at Pine Lake Marina, Sedgefield, South [...]

2018-06-07T12:17:29+02:00March 9th, 2018|SAPECS News|

Open call for academic writing at the Rockefeller Foundation

The Bellagio Centre Residence Program at the Rockefeller Foundation offers a setting conducive to focused work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with fellow residents from a stimulating array of disciplines and geographies during residencies of up to 4 weeks. There is a competition for academic writing which opens on March 1, 2018 with a final deadline for applications on May 1, 2018. Applicants accepted during this open call will be awarded residencies in 2019. For more information see the RF Bellagio Center Flyer 2018 and consult the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre website for additional information.

2018-03-05T10:29:32+02:00March 5th, 2018|Related News & Events|

Transdisciplinary PhD project in Germany

The Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are inviting applicants for a three-year, full-time position as a PhD research fellow in the French-German project “A Sea of Connections: Contextualizing Fisheries in the South Pacific Region” (SOCPacific). Starting in May 2018, this interdisciplinary project (anthropology, geography and political ecology in dialogue with marine biology, ecology and geology) is based on synergies between the French National Research Institute for Development (IRD) and the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and is co-led by Dr. Elodie Fache (IRD, GRED) and Dr. Annette Breckwoldt (ZMT & AWI). For more information [...]

2018-02-23T14:25:29+02:00February 23rd, 2018|Related News & Events|

European Forum Alpbach 2018: Call for Scholarship Applications

There is a call for 2018 Scholarship application through the European Forum Alpbach, which ends on March 30 2018. Scientific exchange and international dialogue A scholarship covers participation in the seminars, breakout sessions and plenary discussions of the European Forum Alpbach. The call for applications is aimed at young people under 30 years of age from all over the world who want to come to Alpbach with their bags filled with fresh ideas for science and society. All information about the application procedure can be found online: www.alpbach.org/scholarships For more information, see the links below: Video | Tweet | Facebook | Flyer  

2018-02-23T14:22:53+02:00February 23rd, 2018|Related News & Events|

Call for applications: Honours fellowship in private land conservation 2018

The Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at Stellenbosch University is offering an honours project to measure the extent to which private protected areas in South Africa are resilient in preventing land use change (i.e., shifts away from natural landscapes to degraded landscapes, farming, urbanization, mining, etc.). This project will use data from an existing spatial database of private protected areas in South Africa, together with existing land cover maps and remote sensing. The successful candidate will be co-supervised by Dr Alta De Vos at Rhodes University, Dr Hayley Clements and Prof Oonsie Biggs at the Centre for Complex [...]

2018-02-20T06:28:41+02:00February 20th, 2018|SAPECS News|

Post for a Communications Officer at ASSAR

ASSAR (Adaption at Scale at Semi-Arid Regions) are looking for a science communications manager from 1 May - 31 August 2018. ASSAR research project falls under the African Climate and Development Initiative (ADCI), a strategic initiative at the University of Cape Town that coordinates and enhances research and teaching on climate and development across departments and faculties. ASSAR is looking for someone who can write excellently, can readily digest and synthesize information, and produce accurate and impactful communications products. Given that this work will be happening during the final months of ASSAR (project ends November 2018), they are ideally looking for [...]

2018-02-06T06:35:18+02:00February 6th, 2018|Related News & Events|
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