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January 13, 2020
A December article in the journal Science distills for the scientific community the most salient and novel findings, messages and policy options of the Global Assessment Report, which was approved by representatives of the 132 member Governments of IPBES in May last year. It emphasizes five priority interventions ("levers") and eight leverage points for action to address these indirect drivers of social and economic systems, where they can make the greatest difference. Several GLP Fellows, SSC Members and GLP members were authors of the paper, which is open access.
Jobs
January 13, 2020
The Earth Observation and Modeling Facility (EOMF), University of Oklahoma, seeks three highly motivated graduate students to join the research team in Land Cover and Land Use Change, Agriculture, Disease Ecology, Terrestrial Carbon Cycle, and Data and Model Assimilation in various places around the world. Deadline is rolling and students can start anytime in 2020.
Event
January 13, 2020
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in partnership with the Ecological Society of America’s Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability (SEEDS) program invites PhD students from a wide range of under-represented experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds to attend an interactive, skill-building workshop on team-based, socio-environmental (S-E) synthesis. The workshop is free and expenses will be covered. Deadline to apply is 21 January 2020, at 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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January 13, 2020
We are pleased to inform you about the call for applications for the third cohort of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership and kindly ask you to forward the call to postdocs who conduct sustainability research and deal with challenges regarding land use practices. Applications can be submitted until 16 February 2020.
Jobs
January 13, 2020
The Department of Geography of the University of Namur is offering a 30-month postdoc position for a researcher interested in the development of an agent-based model (ABM) to derive high-resolution land use and land cover change scenarios for the future at the scale of the studied regions located in five European countries. Deadline to apply is 25 January 2020.
Jobs
January 13, 2020
A postdoctoral research associate is sought in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. The candidate will contribute developing computational tools for understanding how social and environmental factors, and their interactions, influence the capacity for people and wildlife to coexist on shared landscapes.
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January 13, 2020
The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien seeks a research fellow who will contribute to a project in the CRC 990 (Collaborative Research Center 990, EFForTS, http://www.uni-goettingen.de/efforts) that investigates the ecological-socioeconomic trade-offs in different land-use systems in Sumatra, Indonesia. Application review will begin 31 January 2020.
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December 18, 2019
The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg (Austria, close to Vienna) announces 5 Writing-Up Fellowships for late-stage PhD students working in inter and transdisciplinary sustainability science with a focus on theoretical dimensions (conceptual, methodological, and epistemological) of sustainability research. Deadline for initial selection is 30 January 2020.
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December 12, 2019
Now you can catch up on what you missed at the OSM 2019 and more! Every recorded session from the conference is now available on our YouTube channel, along with our webinar series on co-production of knowledge and more. Subscribe to be notified when we add new videos in the future.