The University of Bayreuth, Professorship of Ecological Services, is offering a research position either phd (65% for 36 months) or postdoc (100% for 2 years) on modelling land use decision-making relevant for ecosystem services under climate change. Please click here for the complete announcement.
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Vacancy: Coordinator for UNEP-WCMC’s National Ecosystem Initiative
UNEP-WCMC‘s National Ecosystems Initiative is looking for a highly motivated and experienced individual with a successful track record in managing high profile complex environmental projects; who is keen to accept the challenge of managing an exciting and highly successful multi-million-dollar portfolio of national ecosystem assessments in countries across the globe.
This role provides the opportunity to guide and support countries through the processes of creating national ecosystem assessments knowing that such assessments will eventually help to underpin and improve national planning for the environment and sustainable development. [Read more…] about Vacancy: Coordinator for UNEP-WCMC’s National Ecosystem Initiative
ESP Webinar Series: Ecosystem Services, Water Security and Sustainability Agenda’s
Tools, Policies, and Promising Pathways – Spotlight on UN Decade on Restoration
17 June 2022
This ESP Webinar brings together editors/authors/experts/ ESP members to launch the ‘Special Issue’ “Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resource Management – Tools, Policies, and Promising Pathways“ published in Journal Environmental Management (Springer). The webinar will facilitate discussion as to how emerging scholarship on ecosystem services and water resources management can best support the mandate outlined by UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and related sustainability agenda’s like SDG’s. [Read more…] about ESP Webinar Series: Ecosystem Services, Water Security and Sustainability Agenda’s
“Nature for Peace” Forum highlights the attention to local stakeholders
SEOUL, May 4 — Representatives of scientists from China, Germany, India, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, and Viet Nam taking part in a “Nature for Peace” forum on Friday highlighted the importance of giving attention to local stakeholders in transboundary ecosystem conservation.
Riverine and Wetlands-Water Security are compromised due to diverse drivers and increasing drivers affecting ecosystem resilience and climate regulation potential. Combination, cooperation, and intervention at different levels should be mostly on the landscape internet to enhance improvement and conservation of transboundary cases, said Shalini Dhyani, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), during her report titled “Nature-based Solutions for Transboundary Ecosystem Conservation between the areas bordering India, Nepal, and China.” [Read more…] about “Nature for Peace” Forum highlights the attention to local stakeholders
Vacancy: Research Scholar in Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services
The Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota seeks a Research Scholar in Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services. The Research Scholar will lead a research program focused on natural capital and ecosystem services, related to sustainable development, conservation, and/or land and water management decisions. This research should strive to articulate connections between decision-making, impacts on socio-ecological systems, and value to people. [Read more…] about Vacancy: Research Scholar in Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services