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Tenure Track position for Assistant Professor Environmental Economics

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers the opportunity to make a contribution to sustainable management of natural resources and work in a team of outstanding environmental economists.

Job description
The tenure track candidate is expected to work as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Economics of the Institute of Environment Studies. Over time, the tenure track candidate will write innovative proposals to acquire external funds, thereby establishing a personal research domain within the field of environmental economics. [Read more…] about Tenure Track position for Assistant Professor Environmental Economics

Internships at The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund (PBNF)

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Two internship positions are available at The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund.

The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund (PBNF) supports small, preferably local initiatives worldwide towards the conservation of endangered species (flora & fauna), or initiatives that in other ways promote the conservation and wise use of nature and our natural resources base. [Read more…] about Internships at The Prince Bernhard Nature Fund (PBNF)

EcoSummit 2020 Building a sustainable and desirable future: Adapting to a changing land and sea-scape

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The 6th International EcoSummit Congress, EcoSummit 2020 – Building a sustainable and desirable future: Adapting to a changing land and sea-scape, will take place at The Gold Coast Convention Centre, Gold Coast, Australia, from 21st – 25th June 2020.

EcoSummit 2020 will have a focus on coastal and marine ecosystems including adjacent terrestrial ecosystems and all habitats that are integrated within those ecosystems, including river networks, wetlands and catchments. [Read more…] about EcoSummit 2020 Building a sustainable and desirable future: Adapting to a changing land and sea-scape

GlobalDES: Global Database of regulatory Documents on Ecosystem Services

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GlobalDES has its origins in an Massive Online Open Course on ecosystem services taught by the staff of the University of Geneva in Switzerland. The learners (i.e., students) have been asked for the past three years onwards to contribute at least one entry to GlobalDES by describing a document published in their country that proposes concrete measures to safeguard ecosystem services. [Read more…] about GlobalDES: Global Database of regulatory Documents on Ecosystem Services

ESP March Update is here

by Categories: ESP Updates, News, Publications, Upcoming events

In this month’s issue of the ESP newsletter, you’ll find news on:

  • upcoming ESP conferences
  • results of the recent steering committee elections
  • developments from working groups on marine systems, mountain regions and cultural ES
  • updates from Central America & Caribbean regional chapter, Brazil national network and NESP (USA)
  • ESP Asia Regional Office – information on upcoming special issue
  • ESMERALDA Project results
  • Upcoming events, courses and summer schools

Read the update here.

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