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Vacancy: SRUC Challenge Fellows

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Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is establishing Challenge Driven Research Centres bringing together academic, industry and policy experts to address and deliver to the key global and local challenges. Our Centres will be the key collaborative research platform in SRUC bringing together our leading staff, students and partners to help solve the challenges. The Centres will be:

• Driving Data and Digital Innovation
• Global Climate Emergency
• Safe & Improved Food
• Thriving Natural Capital for Scotland
• Future Food Systems [Read more…] about Vacancy: SRUC Challenge Fellows

ESP April Update is out now!

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We hope you’re staying safe and healthy in these trying times. Although many of us are stuck at home, this doesn’t stop the April Update from bringing you the latest ESP news! In this month’s newsletter we:
  • Share some updates on all our upcoming regional conferences;
  • Invite you to lend your skills and knowledge to an initiative we have been working on for quite some time – the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database;
  • Bring you the news from our working groups, national networks and partner organsations.

Happy reading!

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Vacancy: Professorship Behavioural Aspects of Environmental Planning

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The Institute of Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Science invites applications for a University Professorship in Behavioural Aspects of Environmental Planning starting October 1, 2020.

Behavioural Environmental Planning is a highly innovative and interdisciplinary field of research at the intersection of psychology, economics and planning. The Professorship encompasses research of the behaviour-oriented mechanisms that are employed by groups of actors involved in important environmental planning decisions.

Read the full vacancy here.

The ALTER-Net Summer School

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The 2020 ALTER-Net Summer School will take place in Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France, 18 – 28 August 2020

Open to graduate and post-graduate scientists (as well as professionals in related fields), the ALTER-Net Summer School provides an innovative atmosphere for considering and resolving the sustainability challenges that society is currently facing.

The ALTER-Net summer school focuses on the challenge of biodiversity conservation taking a systemic perspective. In this course, we explore drivers of change, and the role of ecological knowledge and social science approaches, including environmental psychology, for conservation. [Read more…] about The ALTER-Net Summer School

African Forum on Green Economy

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Investing in Natural Capital for a Resilient Africa – An online conference for Africa’s future

African Forum on Green Economy is a three month online exchange on how African countries are leading the way to greener, fairer economies. Aimed for businesses, investors, policy makers and civil society, the Forum is made up of a series of themed discussions on investing in natural capital for a resilient Africa. Each theme will last for ten days and culminate in a webinar in which you can hear from the experts, share your experiences, and meet other practitioners online.

[Read more…] about African Forum on Green Economy