The Land, Environment and Development lab at McGill University is opening two funded graduate positions (MA/MSc or PhD): one to study livelihood resilience in deforestation frontiers, and another to study Mennonite land acquisitions in Latin America, both starting September 2024. Deadline: 1 December 2023 for full consideration.
Alma Mendoza (pictured here) has started work as a postdoctoral researcher with María Piquer-Rodríguez and Martha Bonilla Moheno on a project to identify the main characteristics that underlie the patterns and dynamics of the Social-Ecological Land Systems (SELS) in Mexico.
Within the Science and Technology Sector, the position to be filled will be attached to the Faculty of Science (School of Geography), and the Earth and Life Institute. Deadline: 13 November 2023
The Biodiversity Exploratories program comprises more than 50 research groups and examines the relations between environmental change (mainly in land-use intensity), biodiversity and ecosystem functioning/services in forests and grasslands. Deadline: 15 October 2023
In the interface between natural and social sciences, the project aims to improve understanding of major components of the social-ecological system at Mount Kilimanjaro under land-use, climate, and governance change. Deadline: 15 October 2023
A new paper in Land Use Policy looked at 94 papers about different types of conflicts (land-use, socio-economic, ethnic, and human-wildlife conflicts) in urban peripheries in Europe.
This MRD Talk will explore how monitoring systems and observatories can inform policy and practice. An MRD author will present research priorities for long-term social-ecological monitoring in the Andes.
This free online ARSET Training being offered from 26 October to 9 November will provide an overview of spectral indices for land and aquatic applications. Use cases from recent Earth Action projects (such as NASA DEVELOP) will further highlight how spectral indices can provide essential information about land and aquatic environments.
This free online ARSET Training being offered 3-10 October will cover the basics of natural hazard risk modeling and exposure development with a focus on fusing data from multiple datasets expressly for the purposes of risk assessment.