Worldwide network to enhance the science, policy and practice of ecosystem services for conservation and sustainable development
On 22 May 2020 (coming Friday) we celebrate the Interational Day for Biological Diversity, kicking off the World Biodiversity Week. The International Day for Biological Diversity 2020 has the theme ‘Our Solutions are in Nature’ and for the first time will be celebrated through an online-only campaign.
[Read more…] about World Biodiversity Day 2020 will be celebrated online
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is establishing Challenge Driven Research Centres bringing together academic, industry and policy experts to address and deliver to the key global and local challenges. Our Centres will be the key collaborative research platform in SRUC bringing together our leading staff, students and partners to help solve the challenges. The Centres will be:
• Driving Data and Digital Innovation
• Global Climate Emergency
• Safe & Improved Food
• Thriving Natural Capital for Scotland
• Future Food Systems [Read more…] about Vacancy: SRUC Challenge Fellows
The Institute of Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Science invites applications for a University Professorship in Behavioural Aspects of Environmental Planning starting October 1, 2020.
Behavioural Environmental Planning is a highly innovative and interdisciplinary field of research at the intersection of psychology, economics and planning. The Professorship encompasses research of the behaviour-oriented mechanisms that are employed by groups of actors involved in important environmental planning decisions.
Read the full vacancy here.
The 2020 ALTER-Net Summer School will take place in Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France, 18 – 28 August 2020
Open to graduate and post-graduate scientists (as well as professionals in related fields), the ALTER-Net Summer School provides an innovative atmosphere for considering and resolving the sustainability challenges that society is currently facing.
The ALTER-Net summer school focuses on the challenge of biodiversity conservation taking a systemic perspective. In this course, we explore drivers of change, and the role of ecological knowledge and social science approaches, including environmental psychology, for conservation. [Read more…] about The ALTER-Net Summer School
