Biosphere Reserve for Development in Anglophone African Countries (BRAAF), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, Paris

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

Commercialization of Fur and Skins in Salta Province, Argentina, and its Connections with the International Trade, Argentina

Complex Interactions among People, Policies, and Panda Habitat, Michigan State University, United States and China

Concession for the Sustainable Use of Wildlife, Argentina

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

Environment Energy and Sustainability Science An Institute for 21st Century Teacher Leaders, Widener University

Affordable Drip Irrigation Technology Intervention Program ADITI, International Development Enterprises India IDEI

Forest-saving stoves program, Trees Water and People (TWP)

Reforestation Program, Trees Water and People (TWP)

EVENTS

Action in Place: Promoting Community and Environmental Sustainability (October 6, 2005 - Goddard College Plainfield, Vermont)

Global Forum on Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity for Sustainable Growth and Poverty Reduction (February 13, 2007 - Washington, DC)

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

Climate Water and Sustainability (May 1, 2008 - Washington, DC)

Water Environment Federation Sustainability 2008 (June 22, 2008 - National Harbor, Maryland)

International Scienctific Congress on Climate Change (March 10, 2009 - Copenhagen)

Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference (November 7, 2007 - Sacramento, California)

Disasters: Recipes and Remedies (November 1, 2007 - New York, NY)

2006 International Energy Conference for Sustainable Asia (November 26, 2006 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Lustrom Symposium (November 1, 2007 - The Netherlands)

MEMBERS
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Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Sara Shallenberger Brown Chair in Environmental Policy, Woods Hole Research Center, United States

Philippe Rasoanaivo, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar; and research Director at the Institut Malgache de Recherches Appliques, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar

Alexander Rau, Principal, Climate Wedge Ltd, United States

Keith Pezzoli, Director of Field Research/ Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, United States

Bunyamin Alao Ola-Adams, Professor of Forest Ecology, University of Agriculture, Nigeria

Thangavel Palanivel, Research Fellow, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS), Japan

Paulo Partidário, Research Unit Head, Department of Materials and Production Technologies, National Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology (INETI), Portugal

Muhammad Pervaz, Programme Leader, Technology Transfer, SAARC Energy Centre (SEC)

PUBLICATIONS
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Journal of Industrial Ecology: Special Issue on Consumption (Guest edited by Edgar Hertwich, 2004)

Dynamic Changes in Marine Ecosystems Fishing Food Webs and Future Options (Committee on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing: Phase II - Assessments of the Extent of Change and the Implications for Policy, National Research Council , 2006)

Managing excess capacity in small-scale fisheries: perspectives from stakeholders in three Southeast Asian countries ( Salayo, N.; Garces, L.; Pido, M.; Viswanathan, K.; Pomeroy, R.; Ahmed, M.; Siason, I.; Seng, K.; Masae, A. , 2008)

Science Special Issue The Future of Forests (Andrew Sugden, Jesse Smith, and Elizabeth Pennisi , 2008)

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Global Land-Use Implications ( Lera Miles and Valerie Kapos , 2008)

Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan Social Forestry Program in the Sumberjaya Watershed West Lampung District of Sumatra Indonesia (John Pender, Suyanto, John Kerr, and Edward Kato , 2008)

Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts A Priority for the 21st Century ( National Research Council, Ocean Studies BoardMary (Missy) H. Feeley and Silvio C. Pantoja, Committee Co-Chairs , 2008)

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)

Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict (C. N. Brunnschweiler and E. H. Bulte , 2008)

Socioeconomic Profile of Fishing Activities and Communities Associated with the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries (Astrid Scholz & Charles Steinbeck , 2006)

PROGRAMS
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International Development Enterprises India IDEI

Trees Water and People TWP

SNV Netherlands Development Organization

Village Reach

Research Unit for Industrial Ecology LCA and Systems Sustainability

Millennium Institute

Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermens Association

Atlantic Coastal Action Program

Houston Advanced Research Center HARC

Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds

SOLUTIONS

Filtering Out Cholera in Bangladesh

Biological Monitoring in Zimbabwe

Ecosystem Restoration with Agroforestry and Community Forests in Thailand

OPPORTUNITIES
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Endowed Professorship in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (College of the Atlantic (COA) is seeking a full-time faculty member to fill the newly created Chair in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. COA's approach to food systems will engage students in examining the myriad and far-reaching social, cultural, political, ecological, and economic implications of the ways our food is perceived, produced, distributed and consumed. This is a full-time faculty position with teaching responsibilities in both general interdisciplinary and specialized courses, and program development. The Chair will offer courses that help students gain awareness of, understand, analyze, and address a range of questions and problems concerning food systems. Areas of expertise and background may include, but are not limited to agrarian studies, nutrition and public health, rural-urban food connections, community food security, farm and food policy, local and global systems of food production and distribution, as well as food businesses. In addition to teaching, the Chair is expected to lead the shared work of developing a cohesive, innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum in sustainable food systems. The college seeks to develop a program that will offer students multiple points of entry into agriculture and food systems studies, particularly through agricultural production, science, policy, and business or non-profit work, and build on current assets including the college's farm, dining hall, and faculty in the environmental sciences, human studies, arts, and education. The Chair will also engage students in projects that extend beyond the COA campus, which may include policy advocacy, on-farm work, research, activism, and publication. The Chair will advise students, direct senior projects and independent studies, and forge connections and collaborations with other agriculture and food systems organizations and businesses. In addition, the Chair will provide leadership and management of the Trans-Atlantic Partnership between COA, University of Kassel in Germany, and the Organic Research Centre in the UK. The successful candidate must have excellent teaching skills, the ability to teach across multiple disciplines, and experience working in cross-cultural contexts. Ideal candidates will also have significant professional experience and/or a terminal degree, and demonstrated success in program development. Experience with grant management, project management and farming is also desirable. COA is particularly interested in a candidate who is committed to collaborating with colleagues across the college and in designing a program that contributes to the core curriculum in human ecology.College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA)

Papers for 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (The 2009 Amsterdam Conference is organised around the five core analytical problems identified in this science plan:1. Architectures of Earth System Governance. We invite papers on the emergence, design and effectiveness of governance systems and the overall integration of global, regional, national and local governance. Core questions include: How is performance of environmental institutions affected by their embedding in larger architectures? What are the environmental consequences of non-environmental governance systems? What is the relative performance of different types of multilevel governance architectures? How can we explain instances of 'non-governance'? What are overarching and crosscutting norms of earth system governance?2. Agency in Earth System Governance. We invite papers that advance understanding of the actors and agents that drive earth system governance and the ways in which authority is granted to them and how it is exercised. We welcome papers on the influence, roles and responsibilities of both state actors and non-state actors, such as business and non-profit organisations. Core questions are: What is agency in earth system governance, and who are the agents? How do different agents exercise agency in earth system governance, and how can we evaluate their relevance?3. Adaptiveness of Earth System Governance. We invite papers on the adaptiveness of earth system governance, a theme that includes here related concepts such as adaptation, adaptive management, resilience, or vulnerability. What are the politics of adaptiveness? Which governance processes foster it? What attributes of governance systems enhance capacities to adapt? How, when and why does adaptiveness influence earth system governance?4. Accountability and Legitimacy in Earth System Governance. We invite papers on the accountability and legitimacy of earth system governance. What are the sources of accountability and legitimacy in earth system governance? What are the effects of different forms and degrees of accountability and legitimacy for the performance of governance systems? How can mechanisms of transparency ensure accountable and legitimate earth system governance? What institutional designs can produce the accountability and legitimacy of earth system governance in a way that guarantees balances of interests and perspectives?5. Allocation and Access in Earth System Governance. Earth system governance is, as is any political activity, about the distribution of material and immaterial resources and values. It is, in essence, a conflict about the access to goods and about their allocation - it is about justice, fairness, and equity. But how can we reach interdisciplinary conceptualisations and definitions of allocation and access? What (overarching) principles underlie allocation and access? How can allocation be reconciled with governance effectiveness?6. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Earth System Governance. Finally, we invite papers that cut across these five analytical themes by focusing on the theoretical and methodological foundations of earth system governance. Central crosscutting themes identified in the science plan of the Earth System Governance Project are the roles of power, knowledge, norms, and scale. We also invite papers that analyse the theoretical foundations and implications of new ways of thinking about governance and earth system transformation, including concepts such as global environmental politics, sustainable development, earth system management, or earth system governance, and the extent to which they are related and to which they differ. Moreover, we invite papers that seek to identify and further develop the appropriate methods to study earth system governance, including papers that study options for integrating social science-based work with study programmes grounded in the natu ral sciences, including computer-based modelling and scenario work.Abstracts must be submitted electronically by 15 May 2009 and not exceed 450 words. All abstracts will be evaluated in double-blind peer-review by at least four experts from the conference review panel. Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Global Search for Innovations in Farming and Rural Communities (Ashoka's Changemakers announces the launch of "Cultivating Innovation: Solutions for Rural Communities," a global, online competition to seek out the most innovative solutions in farming and rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, and around the world. The competition is funded as part of a grant awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Using the Changemakers' open-source online platform, the competition will be open to anyone striving to stimulate rural development and agriculture. Over the next two months, people from around the world will be nominating those who are making a difference in farming and rural communities, or submitting their own innovative projects. The Changemakers community will be continually commenting on the initiatives entered in the competition. Entrants and nominators will be able to network with media, academics, and thought leaders. A panel of judges—Roy Steiner, Senior Program Officer for Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Gene Kahn, Global Sustainability Officer for General Mills; Beatrice Gakuba, CEO of Rwanda Flora; Suzana Padua, Founder of the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute of Ecological Research); and Raj Patel, activist and author, Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System—will narrow the entry pool to 10 to 15 finalists. The global Changemakers community will then vote for three winners, who will each receive a USD $5000 award from Changemakers to fund their initiatives. The finalists and winners will receive media attention and are showcased on the Changemakers website. All entrants will gain increased access to a global network of innovators, supporters, and investors with the means to help them fund and/or scale their projects.Any developing country)

PhD Research on Creating Transactional Spaces for Knowledge Exchange in Sustainability Issues (Recruitment of Fulltime PhD StudentKnowledge Management + Sustainable DevelopmentDepartment of Building & Real EstateThe Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityThe Department has the following PhD student place funded under the Faculty's Sustainable Urbanization Research Fund Scheme (SURF) and would like to invite applications from prospective candidates:Project title: Creating Transactional Spaces for Knowledge Exchange in Sustainability Issues: Case Studies of Hong Kong's Urban EnvironmentDuration: 3 yearsStart Date: around June 2009Requirements: Good honours degree and master's degree (research-based or with substantial research element) in any social science-related discipline. Prior study and/or experience in Knowledge Management and/or Sustainable Development essential. Prior experience in qualitative data analysis and/or action research. Good communications and writing skills. Mature personality required for data collection from a wide range of stakeholders.Dr. Patrick Fong (Principal supervisor)Tel: +852 2766 5801; Email: bspafong@polyu.edu.hk Prof. Geoffrey Shen (Co-supervisor)Tel: +852 2766 5817; Email: bsqpshen@inet.polyu.edu.hk Dr. Wilson Lu (Co-supervisor)Tel: +852 2766 5565; Email: bswilson@inet.polyu.edu.hk Recruitment will continue until the position is filled.Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Professorship in Ecosystem Functioning (Leuphana University Lüneburg invites applications for a research-oriented Professorship (W2) in the field of Ecosystem Functioning (Biology)  to be filled as of 1st October 2009.As Professor of Ecosystem Functioning, you will be a member of the Department of Sustainability Sciences. You will focus on ecosystem functioning in relation to biodiversity patterns and human impacts. This may include human-induced changes in ecosystem processes such as carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling as well as human-induced changes in ecosystem services. Your will teach on average two courses each semester in both sustainability sciences and teacher education (Biology). With your research and teaching you will support the development and expansion of the Science Initiative “Sustainability Research” at Leuphana University Lüneburg.You have earned a Master degree or completed a degree programme in natural sciences, preferably in Biology / Ecology or Environmental Sciences (or closely related sciences), a Ph.D. with an excellent academic record and a postdoctoral lecture qualification (i.e. as assistant/associate professor) in ecology. You have a proven track record of excellent research skills based on relevant publications in internationally renowned peer-reviewed scientific journals. Moreover, you have extensive experience in raising and managing external research funds and research cooperations and are prepared to engage in interdisciplinary cooperation across specialist and departmental boundaries. You are also prepared to conduct successful courses and student projects in English. If German is not your mother tongue, you are proficient in English and willing to acquire German language skills over a reasonable time period in order to be able to participate in the university’s daily administrative processes.The appointment criteria are in accordance with Section 25 of the Universities and Colleges Act of Lower Saxony (NHG).As a special optional part of your application you may submit a concept for a "competence tandem", outlining a substantial international research project in cooperation with an international guest researcher. If submitted, the concept paper will be taken into account in any assessments made during the selection process. If the underlying major EU project is accepted, your concept may be eligible for substantial financial funding (details on http://www.leuphana.de/international).The position is eligible for part-time employment. Leuphana University Lüneburg it is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly invites applications from qualified women. Severely disabled applicants will receive preferential treatment in the appointment process in line with the prevailing statutory provisions.More information can be found at www.leuphana.de/international. Please address any functional questions to Prof. Dr. Werner Härdtle (haerdtle@uni-lueneburg.de). For general and administrative questions please contact the university’s academic appointment manager, Ms. Manjana Milkoreit (manjana.milkoreit@leuphana.de).Please submit your application including the usual documents (cover letter, CV, index of your publications highlighting five key publications, a summary of your previous research and teaching activities as well as third-party funding acquisition and research perspectives) and, if applicable, a brief project description for the competence tandem to The President, Postfach 2440, D-21314 Lüneburg or electronically to beko@leuphana.de by 31st March 2009.Leuphana University Lüneburg Germany)

2009 Watson International Scholars of the Environment (The Watson International Scholars of the Environment program brings mid-career environmental leaders from universities, governments, and nongovernmental organizations throughout Africa to Brown University for advanced training in land-change history, sciences, and policies, providing them with the context to enhance the sustainable development capacity in their countries. The opportunity offers an intensive program in sustainable land-use studies to provide mastery of critical concepts, relevant tools, and transferable processes necessary for managing land and ecosystems. Supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and endorsed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the program offers scholars time away from their daily responsibilities to learn new skills with a community of scholars applying both theoretical and practice approaches to real world environmental issues. Full time for three and a half months, participants are involved in courses, workshops, field trips, symposia, mentorship, professional networking, and research projects. The Watson International Scholars of the Environment are active participants, not passive students. All participants will take part in a foundational seminar on African environmental history. Module units focus on land-use science and policy. Drawing on the resources of Brown University, participants will prepare a study on land-use change and policy responses. Participants will integrate data from across disciplines and discuss how their research can inform sound decision-making. Investment in these leaders is strategic: participants are men and women capable of creating lasting and immediately favorable impacts on the sustainable development of their home institutions, eco-regions, and nations. Accordingly, participants are expected to be at a mid-point within their careers in environmental management, science, and policy fields. The program seeks individuals who want to forge new linkages among ideas and issues, to develop networks among leaders facing similar land-use issues, and to explore alliances with relevant colleagues and institutions for improved personal and institutional effectiveness.Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA)

Faculty Position in Agriculture Food and the Environment (<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:563611075; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-283864916 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l1 {mso-list-id:1245650945; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-1749407088 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l1:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, a graduate school at Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) seeks a faculty member to join the Agriculture, Food and Environment (AFE) Program.      The AFE Program fuses the disciplines of nutrition, agricultural science, environmental studies and public policy, and interacts closely with other science and policy teaching and research programs at the school.  Students in AFE M.S. and Ph.D. programs learn to explore the ecological, political, economic, nutritional, and social aspects of food production and distribution in domestic and international contexts.   The Friedman School is seeking an individual with appropriate experience in teaching, research, and student mentoring.  This is a full-time, 12-month position to begin summer 2009.  Rank will be based on experience in teaching and research.  This is a tenure track position.  Salary and benefits are competitive and will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s experience.    Qualifications Sought: Doctoral degree in a relevant agricultural, food policy or nutrition-related field  A strong record of independent research and publications Successful in generating external research support University teaching experience, ideally at graduate level Experience and background in public policy Background in the private sector including, but not limited to, food trade, processing and retail perspective desirable   Responsibilities:  Teach 2-3 graduate level courses annually, covering a broad range of topics within the school, focusing on public policy and food systems (including the possibility of developing new courses) Advise graduate students, including directing independent studies and assisting with internship and job placements Supervise doctoral dissertations as appropriate Develop, secure funding and conduct AFE-relevant research Serve on school committees and engage in collegial cross-university activities   Interested candidates should send their CV and a cover letter to Daniel Maxwell, Chair of the Search Committee (in electronic form as well as in hard copy).  Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.  The search committee will begin reviewing applications at the end of February 2009.     Email:  daniel.maxwell@tufts.eduTufts University, Boston, MA)

PhD Fellowship in Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic MESAS (The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is seeking motivated PhD candidates for our Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic (MESAS) program.  This interdisciplinary NSF-funded IGERT (www.igert.org) program incorporates social and natural sciences to explore ecosystem approaches to managing and studying living marine resources. The program will train future leaders who will be creative agents for change to develop society’s capacity to cope with, manage, and mitigate threats to our nation’s oceans, including climate change, fishing pressure, habitat loss, and pollution.   Graduates will be well-prepared to contribute to both the understanding and management of marine ecosystems to ensure ecosystem-based strategies for the sustainable use of living marine resources in the context of competing local, national, and international interests. MESAS provides interdisciplinary coursework that combines elements from anthropology, ecology, economics, fisheries science, management, marine policy, and oceanography.  MESAS offers faculty mentorship, opportunities to mentor undergraduate students,  interaction with the terrestrial sustainability IGERT at UAF, as well as a summer internship program in areas outside each student’s major discipline. Research programs at the University of Alaska and in state and federal agencies offer interdisciplinary research opportunities. MESAS provides training to graduate students at the Masters and PhD levels at the University of Alaska, in Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska. Students of the program can pursue graduate degrees in Anthropology, Fisheries, Marine Biology, Natural Resources Management, Oceanography, Resource Economics, or Interdisciplinary Studies. NSF-funded fellowships are available to PhD candidates entering the program who are US citizens or permanent residents. Additional funding may be available to both PhD and MS students through participating departments. Alaska Natives and other under-represented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.University of Fairbanks, Alaska)

PhD position at Stockholm Resilience Centre (The research program “Governance of the Baltic Sea - a response to ecological regime shifts” at the Baltic Nest Institute and Stockholm Resilience Center is looking for a Political Science PhD student.The project runs from 2009-2012, and aims to develop guidelines for adaptive  management of both coastal and marine environments (with special focus on the Baltic Sea).The widespread degradation of marine ecosystems like the Baltic Sea results to a large extent from a failure of governance. Problems with eutrophication and other pollutants, overfishing, habitat degradation, introduced species and illegal oil discharges are common in a number of regional seas managed in an international context. The specific Baltic problems are relatively well known by scientists and policy makers. The knowledge and sense of urgency for dealing with them varies substantially between citizens in the bordering states, thus creating e.g. regional differences in the level of political pressure. Traditional focus on single-species resources in fisheries and aquaculture has created organizational and institutional structures with compartmentalized decision-making processes, leading to narrow policy instruments that create incentives for policies and actions that undermine sustainability. Such governance is ill prepared to respond to the complexity of dynamic ecosystems or build an adaptive capacity for coping with change and uncertainty. These approaches are often overwhelmed by global economic drivers and cannot address the complex threshold dynamics of linked social–ecological systems. There is an urgent need for new flexible, integrated, holistic forms of governance that can deal with the complexity of social-ecological systems (SES), and their associated services. Adaptive management, adaptive co-management, ecosystem management, and various forms of formal and informal integrated resource management are all promising approaches in this context. However, these governance modes are in need of further exploration to be able to fully incorporate the dynamics of social-ecological systems. The latter implies much more than stakeholder participation and integrated planning, it implies; being able to deal with both uncertainty and abrupt change; enhance learning of complex SES; promote experimentation and innovation; and supporting cross-scale institutional linkages. The search for better approaches to ensuring sustainable outcomes has helped develop important principles and protocols for ecosystem-based management of marine resources. These acknowledge ecosystems as complex dynamic systems and address the mismatch between social systems and ecosystem dynamics. Typically, prevailing approaches emphasize spatial planning, usage zoning, and marine protected areas. However, the burgeoning literature on ecosystembased management offers few empirically based insights into social–ecological strategies that make transitions to such management possible. In this project we focus on the Baltic Sea and on understanding shifts toward multi level governance modes that enable ecosystem based-management of large scale-ecosystems. We focus on the emergence of new international institutions as part of governance regime formation in relation to ecosystem dynamics. More specifically, we focus on the interplay among individual actors in networks, organizations, and institutions at multiple levels in order to understand the dynamic processes that underlie the emergence of new forms of governance.Baltic Nest Institute and Stockholm Resilience Center)

MSc Research opportunity in Sustainability in communal socioecological systems (Two MSc bursaries (R30,000 each for two years) are available for ecology/environmental science students to participate in a multi-disciplinary research project titled SUCSES: Sustainability in communal socio-ecological systems. The aim of the overall project is to gain a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between society and the environment at multiple levels in a rural region of South Africa. Such analysis is necessary for identifying, understanding and responding to threats and opportunities for ecological sustainability and human well-being in these systems in order to inform appropriate policy. The project is based in the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, in the rural district of Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.The MSc bursaries will each address one of the following research questions:Project 1: What are the spatial patterns of ecosystem composition, structure and function in a communal savanna Project 2: What are the patterns of land cover resilience to shocks (e.g. drought) and stresses, (e.g. resource harvesting) in different landscape units in a communal savanna landscape over the last two decades, and what are the implications of this for the provision of ecosystem services?University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Amazonia 2007 International Summerschool (Belem, Brazil)

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

KEY JOURNALS

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

Journal of Environment and Development