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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 [...]

July 9th, 2015|

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 [...]

July 3rd, 2015|

New paper in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

A new paper has just been published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability on "Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective", co-authored by a number of SAPECS-affiliated researchers including Reinette Biggs and Marja Spierenburg. In the paper, the authors discuss the ways in which the concept of social–ecological systems has facilitated a number of [...]

June 26th, 2015|

OTHER RELATED NEWS

Resident Lecturer: Undergraduate Study Abroad Programme in Savanna/Fynbos Ecology, Kruger National Park

October 21st, 2016|

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

October 7th, 2016|

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 [...]

Vacancy: Research Associate at The Cirrus Group (closing date 16 Oct)

October 6th, 2016|

About Cirrus: Cirrus is a young consulting and research firm that advises governments and companies on climate change and the management of natural resources. The firm specialises in the land-use aspects of global change, providing advice on climate change mitigation and adaptation measures as well as on the science and governance of ecosystem services more broadly. Our strength lies in our robust analytical skills and willingness to tackle the multidisciplinary [...]

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