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Below are selected opportunities that go beyond the application of environment or development separately and deal with the interaction of environment and development and the contributions of science and technology to sustainable development. The list features a handful of the most exciting opportunities that have been brought to our attention and is intended to suggest the range of what's out there; it is not a comprehensive list nor are these necessarily the best programs in existence. Nominations for additional Opportunities are welcome and should be sent to the Managing Editor via email at .

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Call for Papers Engineering Sustainability 2009
Pittsburgh, PA

PhD Assistantship Social Networks and Working Landscapes
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy
UC Davis
ncline Village, Nevada

2009 Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
Stanford University
Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment

Editor's Picks

Director, Center for Metropolitan Sustainabilty
New York City

Executive Director Cultivating Sustainable Communities
Los Angeles, California

Graduate Assistantships for the study of Complex Systems
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Human-Nature Interactions in Forested Landscapes (MS Assistantship)
SUNY - New York

Program Head, Human Dimensions of Coastal Sustainability
East Carolina University, North Carolina, US

Sustainability and Land Use Planning Postdoc
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment

World Habitat Awards 2008

2008 Leopold Leadership Program
The Leopold Leadership Program at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
USA

2008 PhD Summer School on Earth System Governance
The Summer School is jointly organised by the IVM Department of Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) and the Netherlands Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE). 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Vienna, Austria

International Master’s Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
Lund University
Lund, Sweden

Master’s of Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Karlskrona, Sweden

PhD Summer School on Earth System Governance
VU University Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The New School of Sustainability at ASU: MAs and PhDs in Sustainability
Arizona State University    
Tempe, Arizona, USA

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4th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural,.... January 4, 2008

MEMBERS
Susana Beatriz Adamo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Martin Lehmann, Aalborg University

Marcel Bursztyn, Center for International Development - Kennedy Sachool of Government - Harvard University

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

Science on Sustainability 2006. Research on the Scientific Basis for Sustainability. 

 
   
 
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