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Call for Papers - International Conference On Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security
Posted February 21, 2012
International Conference On Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security
On 17th & 18th August 2012
At
Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS)
Dr. Camil Bulcke Path, Ranchi: 834 001, Jharkhand, India
In Collaboration With
All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE)
New Delhi
Key Note Address to be delivered by
Dr. N. C. Saxena
Former Secretary, Planning Commission and Noted Environmentalist
Special Lecture on
ICARUS III Panel Proposal - Call for Contributions: Governing Environmental Risks and Vulnerabilities in Cities
Posted February 14, 2012
We are inviting scholars to participate in a panel titled “Governing Environmental Risks and Vulnerabilities in Cities” to be held at the ICARUS III (Initiative for Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences) meeting at Columbia University in New York City from May 17-20, 2012. The conference is organized jointly by Columbia University, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan. Cities around the world are developing new forms of governing social-environmental risks and vulnerabilities associated with climate change.
IAMO’s Agricultural Policy Department job vacancy
Posted February 9, 2012
The Leibniz-Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) is a leading international centre of expertise for the scientific analysis of agricultural and rural development in transition economies. IAMO offers a stimulating research environment in an international, ambitious, and multidisciplinary team.
Call for abstract - Forest Tenure in the Drylands: The Human Dimensions of Vulnerability in Asia and Africa
Posted February 7, 2012
We (Purabi Bose and Han van Dijk) would like to invite paper abstracts to make a scientific contribution to an edited volume with the provisional title ‘Forest Tenure in the Drylands: The Human Dimensions of Vulnerability’.
Munich Summer for MA, PhD students - Global Environments Summer 2012: Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World
Posted January 30, 2012
The Rachel Carson Center and the Global Diversity Foundation are now calling for applications for GESA 2012: the second Global Environments Summer Academy on Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World, to be held as part of the Munich International Summer University (MISU) in August 2012. The Academy is designed to broaden and deepen the knowledge, networking, and communication skills of postgraduate students and professionals who are concerned about human dimensions of environmental challenges.
CONFERENCE POSTPONED - 2012 IASC Asian Regional Meeting
Posted January 26, 2012
Asian Regional Meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
June 11-14, 2012, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
IMPORTANT: THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
ASIAN PASTORAL COMMONS ADAPTING TO CHANGE
PhD fellowship - effectiveness and equity in payments for ecosystem services
Posted January 24, 2012
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for a young, motivated person willing to develop a PhD at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
The 3-year PhD fellowship (14,000 Euros/year approx.) will focus on analysing the effectiveness and equity implications of carbon and biodiversity offsets in Mexico, informed by qualitatitve and quantitative methods.
Presenting the IASC First Thematic Conference on "the Knowledge Commons" - 2012
Posted January 20, 2012
The website of the 1st Thematic Conference on "the Knowledge Commons" is on line.
The conference will be held in the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium, from 12th to 14th of September, 2012.
As stated in the conference web-page:
ICARUS III Conference Call for Papers
Posted January 19, 2012
Dear Colleagues:
ICARUS is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the third ICARUS meeting to be held at Columbia University from Thursday May 17 through Sunday May 20, 2012. ICARUS-III follows on the highly successful ICARUS-I and II meetings organized at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
and the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment. The theme of the ICARUS-III meeting is “Scales, Frameworks and Metrics.”
Job announcement - Professorship in Social Sciences from ZMT Bremen and University of Bremen
Posted November 23, 2011
The Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology and the University of Bremen invite applications for a joint professorship in Social Sciences
(tenure as W2 University Professor)
