Development of African Scientific Network (ASN): A model to enhance scientific research in developing countries, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, United States

Sustainability Geoscope, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Coastal land-use in Southeast Asia: interactions between the environment, population, and institutions in the development of the shrimp aquaculture industry, Vietnam and Thailand

Governance, Environment and Development in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, and University of Uyo, Nigeria

Local Sustainability Strategy for the City of Ingolstadt, Germany

Minnesota 2050 Pathways to a Sustainable Future, University of Minnesota

IFC Sustainability Business Innovation, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Local Responses to Socio-economic Change and Crisis: Migration Dynamics in Rural and Small Urban Areas of Argentina, Carolina Population Center - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Reforestation Program, Trees Water and People (TWP)

EVENTS

Lustrom Symposium (November 1, 2007 - The Netherlands)

Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation (May 27, 2008 - Uppsala, Sweden)

5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment Systems (September 30, 2009 - Dubrovnik, Croatia)

Engineering Solutions for Sustainability (July 22, 2009 - Lausanne, Switzerland)

2nd World Congress of Agroforestry (August 23, 2009 - Nairobi, Kenya)

The National Academies' Federal Sustainability Research and Development Forum (October 17, 2007 - Washington, DC)

2010 Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting (January 10, 2010 - Washington, D.C.)

Transportation Planning Land Use and Air Quality Conference 2009 (July 28, 2009 - Denver, Colorado)

Carbon Management at Urban to Regional Levels: Linking Development Decisions to Global Issues (September 4, 2006 - Mexico City, Mexico)

MEMBERS
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Bulent Acma, Dr., Anadolu University

Mohan Munasinghe, Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka

Ibrahim Al-Khattat, Dr., SustainableScience.org Inc.

Fred Carden, Director, International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Ethan Smith, Coordinator, Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable

Dina Nath Tewari, Civil Society (NGOs), Utthan: Centre for Sustainable Development & Poverty Alleviation

Mauri Ahlberg, Professor of Biology and Sustainability Education, Department of Applied Sciences of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland

Richard Bissell, Executive Director, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council (NRC), United States

Leen Hordijk, Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Ned Strong, Executive Director, LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas, United States

PUBLICATIONS
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being (John P. Holdren , 2008)

The role of ecological theory and practice in poverty alleviation and environmental conservation ( Fabrice DeClerck, Jane C Ingram, and Cristina M Rumbaitis del Rio , 2006)

Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States (Water Science and Technology Board, National Research Council , 2007)

2 reports in Science on Incurring Carbon Debts in Biofuel Production (Joseph Fargione, Jason Hill, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, and Peter HawthorneTimothy Searchinger, Ralph Heimlich, R. A. Houghton, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto Fabiosa, Simla Tokgoz, Dermot Hayes, and Tun-Hsiang Yu , 2008)

Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective ( Vernon W. Ruttan , 2001)

How Green Are Biofuels? (Jorn P. W. Scharlemann and William F. Laurance , 2008)

Land-Use Allocation Protects the Peruvian Amazon (Paulo J. C. Oliveira, Gregory P. Asner, David E. Knapp, Angélica Almeyda, Ricardo Galván-Gildemeister, Sam Keene, Rebecca F. Raybin, and Richard C. Smith , 2007)

Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development (James F. Reynolds, D. Mark Stafford Smith, Eric F. Lambin, B. L. Turner, II, Michael Mortimore, Simon P. J. Batterbury, Thomas E. Downing, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Roberto J. Fernández, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Hong Jiang, Rik Leemans, Tim Lynam, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Ayarza, Brian Walker , 2007)

Proceedings from Science and Technology for Sustainable Development: The African Context (Sarah Banas, Danny Schaffer, Thomas Egwang, Martine Ngobo, Hans Herran, Alfred Watkins, Phillip Griffiths , 2008)

Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon (Yadvinder Malhi, J. Timmons Roberts, Richard A. Betts, Timothy J. Killeen, Wenhong Li, and Carlos A. Nobre , 2008)

PROGRAMS
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Millennium Institute

Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)

International Institute for Sustainable Development IISD

US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education AASHE

Trees Water and People TWP

Houston Advanced Research Center HARC

SNV Netherlands Development Organization

International Finance Corporation Sustainability

SOLUTIONS

Removing Arsenic in Ecuador

Filtering Out Cholera in Bangladesh

Ecosystem Restoration with Agroforestry and Community Forests in Thailand

Dryland Farming in Jamaica

Arizona Water Institute

Biological Monitoring in Zimbabwe

Hydraulically Powered Treatment Plant in Mexico

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Copepods, and Biological Control of Mosquitoes in Vietnam

OPPORTUNITIES
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Call for Papers: Science with Africa (The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Intelligence in Science (ISC) are inviting submissions of papers for the conference “Science with Africa”. Part of the conference will focus on scientific themes which will be of particular interest in the development of a science base in Africa. The objective is to present the enormous potential of African institutions and to demonstrate that collaboration with African scientists presents added value in many types of research. The conference will revolve around the themes of: Energy, Transport and Infrastructure, Health, Life Sciences, Information and Communication Technologies, Water, and Agriculture and Food Security.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

7 PhD positiobs at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (The Stockholm Resilience Centre a joint centre of the Stockholm University, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and the Stockholm Environment Institute, is looking for seven transdisciplinary PhD students who are interested in working on resilience issues in sustainability science. The positions are: PhD position: Modelling dynamics of multiple ecosystem services in human dominated landscapes PhD position: Social-ecological modularity and connectivity in the urban landscape: implications for robustness/resilience of ecosystem services PhD Position: Seabird responses to dynamic marine ecosystem changes PhD position: Navigating transformations in social-ecological systems: the role of network evolution and leadership strategies PhD Position: Theoretical Analysis, Model Development and Simulations of Complex Social-Ecological Landscapes PhD position: Water resources and social-ecological resilience in agricultural landscapes These students will all be part of the new Resilience Graduate School which will help build the next generation of transdisciplinary thinkers and doers in sustainability science. The program will explore resilience theory and research methodologies, adaptive governance, and social-ecological transformation. The application procedures are formally run by collaborating departments at Stockholm University.  Final date for applications  is between May 2-4th, 2009. For further information on the PhD positions see:www.stockholmresilience.su.se/graduateschoolStockholm, Sweden)

Post doc positions in biofuels and ecosystem model data synthesis (Two post-doctoral positions in ecosystem model-data synthesis and forecasting are available in the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/ Duties:    Researchers will be expected to work collaboratively within a large, interdisciplinary research group to assess the suitability of different biofuel crops.  Research will focus on the meta-analysis of existing research, the evaluation and parametrization of process-based plant models, and model-based forecasts of: crop suitability, sensitivity toclimate variability, trade-offs in ecosystem services (in particular carbon storage and water cycling), and land-use impacts of biofuel expansion. The split of work between postdocs will be based on experience and interests.Qualifications:Ph.D. in the ecological or agricultural sciences or a related field. Preferred qualifications include knowledge of two or more of the following:  field experience in plant ecology; maximum likelihood and/or Bayesian statistics; computer programming (e.g. C/C++, Fortran); SQL database programing (e.g. mySQL, Oracle); plant ecosystem or agri-ecological models at the individual, landscape, or regional level; GIS/remote sensing. Salary is $35,000-45,000 commensurate with experience and qualifications with up to three years of funding available.Interested applicants are encouraged to send a CV and cover letter to:Dr. Michael Dietzemdietze@life.uiuc.edu http://www.life.uiuc.edu/dietzeUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

ICRAF Climate Change Leader (The World Agroforestry Centre seeks to recruit a world-class researcher to lead its Global Research Project (GRP) on Climate Change.   Agricultural systems most vulnerable to climate change are those already affected by unsustainable management, and land and resource degradation. Trees have an important role in reducing vulnerability, increasing the stability of farming systems, and buffering households against climate-related risks. Moreover, whole-landscape carbon accounting (combining REDD, A/R CDM and the gaps in between) may provide a basis fore investment in trees managed by farmers and rural communities.   The objective of the Global Research Project on Climate Change is to improve the stability of farming systems and livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers in the face of current climate variability as well as long-term climate change, through the increased use of trees for intensification, diversification and buffering of farming systems. The GRP focuses on four areas: vulnerability assessments, impact of climate change on agroforestry systems; adaptation to climate change; and synergies in agroforestry systems between climate change adaptation and mitigation.Nairobi, Kenya)

Postdoctoral Position on the political ecology of infrastructures in three German regions (Within the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Civil Engineering/Geodesy at the Technische Universität Darmstadt the Chair for Spatial and Infrastructure Planning investigates the interplay between the sustainable development of cities/regions and the transition/ innovation of technical infrastructure (energy, water, wastewater, waste systems), urban/ regional innovation management in the utility sectors and urban/regional policy and planning responses to socio-ecological problems. We are currently inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Position (part-time, 75 %)This three year position will commence in August or September 2009 (with a possible extension of further 3 years). Subject to the successful acquisition of research funding, the terms and conditions of employment could be extended to that of a full-time position.Your tasks: You will be expected to teach courses in spatial and infrastructure planning, to carry out your own research in this field and to publish internationally and nationally. More specifically this includes the following tasks: directing 1,5 courses per semester in different B.A. and M.A. programs in architecture, and in civil, environmental and industrial engineering and supervising bachelor and master theses; supervising a group of three PhD students conducting research on the political ecology of infrastructures in three German regions, conducting and supervising comparative research of international quality on the transition and planning of infrastructure systems in different urban settings. regularly publishing the results of this work, especially in international peer-reviewed academic journals; applying for third-party funding for research projects; participating in the academic activities of the chair and the department.Your profile: You have completed a PhD in planning, social sciences, environmental studies, civil engineering, architecture, geography, or a related field of study. Your previous research activities and your publication record reflect your strong interest and extensive knowledge in the fields of technical infrastructures, social studies of technology, governance and planning theory and your strong methodological skills in empirical social research. Knowledge in the field of either urban/regional studies or of environmental studies are desirable for this position. You have international experience and a proven ability to teach, to manage research projects and to apply for third-party funding. Your working style is team-oriented and you have strong written and oral communication skills. While your publications can be undertaken in English, you are expected to understand written and oral German and to learn to write and speak German. Beyond your research and teaching interests, you have an interest in general sustainability issues and current political and societal discussions.Conditions: We offer an excellent research environment in a motivated, interdisciplinary team at a leading academic institution as well as the possibility for exchange in national and international networks. We encourage you to actively participate at the ”Graduate School for Urban Studies” and interdisciplinary research networks in infrastructure, spatial and energy research at TU Darmstadt. We offer salary according to the German public service pay scale up to BAT Ib depending on qualification and experience (BAT Ib ranges between approx. € 46,000 and € 55,000 gross per annum for a full position depending on age, children, marital status etc.). Your application: The TU Darmstadt has an affirmative action program to promote equity in the employment of women, members of underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. Please send your complete application documents (letter of motivation, a full CV, transcripts, a list of publications and two short samples of recent publications) no later than May 31, 2009 electronically to the Dean of the Department for Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Petersenstr. 12, D-64287 Darmstadt (raumplanung@iwar.tu-darmstadt.de). Foradditional information please visit our website at www.raumplanung.bauing.tudarmstadt.de or contact Jochen Monstadt at j.monstadt@iwar.tu-darmstadt.de or +49- 6151-16-2248.Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

Robert Bosch Junior Professorship Research into the Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources (We are looking for an outstanding young scientist whose research areas concern the sustainable use of renewable natural resources as it relates to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, use of biodiversity (animal and plant genomic resources) and water. Research approaches may be based in the natural sciences as well as in the social, economic and political sciences. The research should focus on developing and emerging countries.We welcome applications from all areas of research. For this year's call for applications, we would especially like to encourage applications in the following two areas of research:Competing Claims on Land Usee. g. issues emerging from the conflict between cultivating bioenergy crops and nutrition crops and its impact on food security, soil degradation and biodiversityAgriculture and Healthe. g. issues relating to undernutrition, food- and water-borne diseases, illnesses from lifestock such as avian flu, but also the effects of occupational health risks and HIV/AIDS on agriculture The successful applicant can expect to receive a grant worth up to 1 million euros, for a period of five years. It is expected that the candidate will assemble a research group. The funds can be allocated flexibly towards covering the candidate's and personnel salaries as well as towards meeting research costs (working lab space, access to resources, equipment, travelling, consumables). If the successful applicant is interested in a tenure track position, the host institution is expected to guarantee the post. This means that it assumes the obligation to install a regular professorship ad personam after expiry of the grant and after a successful evaluation of the performance of the Junior Professor.Germany)

Julie Ann Wrigley Chairs in Sustainability (ASU's new School of Sustainability is pleased to announce the establishment of four Julie Ann Wrigley chairs of sustainability. We seek intellectual leaders from all sectors with unusual vision, intellectual breadth, and practical experience to lead us in these endeavors. Each will identify and promote practical solutions to sustainability by building on ASU's portfolio, catalyzing new transdisciplinary research on sustainability, and forging solution-oriented partnerships among academia, business, government and other stakeholders. We welcome applications of internationally recognized leaders in the realms of sustainable business practices, renewable energy systems, global environmental change, and complex system dynamics for these distinguished professorships: Julie Ann Wrigley Chair in Sustainable Business Practices will advance both theoretical and practical frameworks for businesses of all scales to incorporate sustainability principles in their operations, supply chains, product development, manufacturing, and distribution systems. Julie Ann Wrigley Chair in Renewable Energy Systems will advance the research and practical applications related to renewable energy technologies and designing innovative, yet practical, solutions to the renewable-energy challenge. Julie Ann Wrigley Chair in Global Environmental Change will advance both the theoretical and practical frameworks for addressing the social, economic, and environmental consequences of urbanization with special attention to the interactions of cause and impacts of climate change with these processes. Julie Ann Wrigley Chair in Complex Systems Dynamics will advance both theoretical and practical frameworks for addressing sustainability challenges and integrated solution options through conceptual modeling of human-environment interactions as interdependent complex systems.Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)

Policy Researcher/Senior Policy Researcher (Under the overall guidance of the Project Manager, the selected candidate will conduct high quality research on climate policies and measures and synthesize such research in a manner understandable to policy makers. Researcher is expected to undertake inter-disciplinary studies on international climate policy framework beyond 2012 with a focus on accommodating Asian concerns and developmental aspirations in the future climate regime. The specific responsibilities are to: (1) Monitor international and national climate policy developments with regard to post-2012 climate regime on themes such as Kyoto mechanisms, adaptation, technology development and transfer, and co-benefits of climate policies in developing countries, (2) Conduct research on institutional frameworks, climate-friendly technologies and/or adaptation strategies relevant to the Asia-Pacific region, and produce quality outputs (e.g., policy briefs), (3) Coordinate planning and logistics for dialogues, workshops, briefings, and other events in close consultation with stakeholders, (4) Foster and establish links with other IGES projects, and related national and regional projects and other international programmes, (5) Provide assistance in the development of relevant capacity-strengthening programmes, (6) Conduct outreach activities such as side events at UNFCCC conferences and other workshops, and (7) Assist with administrative tasks as needed.Hayama, Japan)

QUEST Funding Opportunity: Sustainable Forestry and Bioenergy (Proposals are invited for research projects to quantify the worldwide potential of different plant-based options to mitigate climate change, accounting for their environmental, biodiversity, economic and social consequences; a primary objective will be to provide information to decision makers involved in international climate policy negotiations. For further information: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/quest/events/ao070130-bioenergy.asp Funding provided by the Natural Environment Research Council)

Tenure-track Positions in Energy Science, Engineering and Policy (The Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, College of Agricultural Sciences, and Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment seek applicants to fill a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (depending on qualifications). This is a 9-month, full-time appointment with both research and teaching responsibilities. Research interests in spatially explicit modeling, and the interaction between the environment and economy as mediated through land use and landscape are required. The successful candidate will join a multi-college team of economists and other scientists working on issues of energy and environment, and will be expected to work with interdisciplinary teams to conduct research and seek external funding in areas such as the economics of biomass energy, integrated modeling of the environmental impacts of biomass energy development, land use change, and land use policy. The successful candidate will be expected to publish in top field and general interest journals. Teaching responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate courses, and graduate and undergraduate advising. Penn State University)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

IFRI Training Program (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Amazonia 2007 International Summerschool (Belem, Brazil)

International Field Workshop on “Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa” (Mauritius)

Sustainable Energy Engineering (Zagreb, Croatia)

Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (Fairbanks, Alaska, USA)

Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management (Europe)

Third ALTER-Net Summer School (Peyresq, France)

BS Agriculture Food and Sustainability (Unity College, Maine)

Agris Mundus Sustainable Development in Agriculture Masters Course (Europe)

KEY JOURNALS

Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Development: Energy, Environment, and Health

Energy for Sustainable Development

International Journal of Sustainable Energy