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Events & Announcements Archive

 
2009


2 October
Associate/Assistant Professor Position at Portland State University
Application deadline: 15 November
 
2 October
Job announcement: Fellowships in Sustainability Science, Harvard University's Center for International Development, USA
Application deadline: 1 December

5 October
Conference announcement: Student Conference on Conservation Science
Cambridge UK, 23-25 March 2010
Deadline for application and internship: 31 October

5 October
Course: Biodiversity: Planning Obligations and the NERC Act
Two-day CPD course at Oxford University, 11-12 November 2009

8 October
Synthesis Report on ‘Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change’ launched by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

11 October
PhD in Applied Biodiversity Science at Texas A&M University, USA
 
12 October
Summary: Second Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-stakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Nairobi, Kenya, 5-9 October 2009
 
15 October
Report: Forest resilience, biodiversity and climate change
 
15 October
Call for papers: 2nd Annual meeting of the Society for Environmental
Law and Economics

Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26-27 March 2010
18 October
New course: MPhil in Conservation Leadership at University of Cambridge
 
19 October
Job announcement: well funded PhD opportunity on international forest policy for FONASO
Application deadline: 16 November
 
20 October
Job announcement: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) recruits research staff for the Fifth Phase Strategic Research Programme starting from April 2010 to March 2013
 
21 October
Job announcement: Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystems Project Coordinator at UNOPS
Application deadline: 8 November
 
22 October
Job announcement: Assistant Professor Position, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, USA
Application deadline: 1 December
 
23 October
Job announcement: Resource Economist/Social Scientist Sought for DU Canada's Conservation Team
 
23 October
Conference announcement and call for papers: ENVECON 2010: Applied Environmental Economics Conference
London, UK, 12-13 March 2010
Application deadline: 5 January 2010
 
26 October
Job announcement: Research Fellowship at The Institute of Agriculture and Fisheries and Hasselt University, Belgium
Application deadline: 30 November
 
27 October
Conference announcement and call for abstracts: CNREP 2010: Challenges of Natural Resource Economics & Policy. 3rd National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems
New Orleans, USA, 26-28 May 2010
Application deadline: 26 February 2010
 
28 October
Job announcement: Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Crawford School of Economics and Government,Australian National University.
 
29 October
Job announcement: Two vacancies at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission; Rural, Water and Ecosystem Resources Unit, Italy:
- Mapping and modeling ecosystem services (Post Doc position)
- Spatial explicit valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services (PhD position)
Application deadline: 3 November 2009
3 November
Article: Conclusions of the 2009 World Forestry Congress
by Paula Alvarado, Treehugger
 
3 November
Document: German economists and ecologists signed and published a Memorandum on "Economics for Nature Conservation" to call on policymakers and conservation managers to make more use of economic principles and instruments in conservation policies.See the document
 
4 November
Job announcement: MS and pre-doc assistantships at the School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, USA
 
6 November
Job announcement:Visiting researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
 
12 November
News:the website of 2010 International Year of Biodiversity was launched
in Montreal, Canada: http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/
 
13 November
Job announcement: Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics and
Policy at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC) and
Food and the Resource Economics Department (FRE), University of Florida, USA

Application deadline: 4 January 2010
 
14 November
Job announcement: Agricultural Economists – Senior Scientist or Scientist at the The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), USA
Application deadline: 31 December 2009
 
16 November
Job announcement:Post-doc in natural resource economics
IFREMER - French research institute for exploitation of the sea - UMR AMURE (France)
Application deadline: 12 December 2009
 
18 November
Job announcement: Economist/Senior Economist at RSPB, Sandy, Bedfordshire
Application deadline: 2 December 2009
26 November
Report: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and IUCN have published a Good Practice Guide on Sustainable Forest Management: Biodiversity and Livelihoods.
 
27 November
Call for papers: IV Conference of Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural Resources and Environmental Economics (AERNA)
Gran Canaria, Spain, June 2010.
Application deadline: 15 February 2010
 
28 November
Job announcement: Research opportunity in socio-ecosystem modelling for a Master student at IFREMER; France
Application deadline: 8 January 2010
 
4 December
Call: Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)Programme to explore the sustainable management of ecosystems and how this can contribute to poverty alleviation in developing countries.
Application deadline: 3 March 2010
 
8 December
News: IUCN Spatial Data for species assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are now available to the public to help in conservation planning and decision making. The dataset contains distribution information of assessed species and has been developed as part of a comprehensive assessment of global biodiversity in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction and promote their conservation.
 
8 December
Call: DEFRA Expressions of Interest Forms for Understanding the status, taxonomy and ecology of UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Species (call code CTX0913).
Application deadline: 22 January 2010
 
9 December
Call: WWF-US Kathryn Fuller Fellowships. The 2010 Programme will support PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working on: ecosystem services; measuring and monitoring carbon stocks in forests; climate change impacts on and adaptation of freshwater resources.
Application deadline: 31 January 2010
 
11 December
Job announcement: Senior Programme Officer, Business, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, UNEP-WCMC.
Application deadline: 10 January 2010
 
11 December
Job announcement: Post-doc position on effects of climate changes on the biodiversity of protected areas in the Barents region,Landscape Ecology Group (LEG)-Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG), Sweden.
Application deadline: 7 January 2010

 

2010

4 January
Ph.D course: ‘The Economics of Marine Resources: Ecological-Economic Modeling of the Marine Environment: Models and Management’, organised by The Centre for Fisheries and Aquaculture Management and Economics (FAME) University of Southern Denmark - Esbjerg - Denmark, April 19-23, 2010
 
6 January
Job announcement: 2 job openings within IDDRI Biodiversity programme:
- international governance of biodiversity
- economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services
 
12 January
Job announcement: Ecosystem services scientist: 12 month postdoctoral post at University of Cambridge
Application deadline: 29 January 2010
 
12 January
Report: "Effects of Forest Certification on Biodiversity" by Tropenbos International (TBI)
 
12 January
Report: "Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biological Diversity" by Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in collaboration with the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
 
12 January
Report: "Effects of Forest Certification on Biodiversity" by Tropenbos International (TBI)
 
13 January
Book: GOFC-GOLD REDD technical sourcebook. A new & updated version with methods and procedures for monitoring, measuring and reporting.
 
13 January
Report: Growing within limits. As input for the Assembly of the Club of Rome, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency looked into two important challenges for sustainable development: 1) energy use and climate change and 2) land use and biodiversity loss.
 
13 January
Course: Masters in Leadership for Sustainable Development - Forum for the Future
Applications deadline for September courses: 12 February 2010
 
15 January
Job announcement: Post doctoral position: Ensemble forecasting of species distributions under climate change, University of Évora, Portugal
Applications deadline: 14 February 2010
 
15 January
Job announcement: Fully-funded PhD studentship: 'Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Assessing the Evidence Base' at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Wallingford and the Bournemouth University Centre for Conservation Ecology & Environmental Change
Applications deadline: 30 January 2010
 
18 January
Job announcement: 2 Posts United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS):
(a) Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow International Governance for Sustainable Development
(b) Research Fellow in Marine Governance/Coastal Management
Applications deadline: 31 January 2010
20 January
Report: REDD Realities, how strategies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, by Global Forest Coalition
 
21 January
Conference announcement: Biodiversity 2010, and Beyond
Paris, France, 16 February 2010
 
25 January
BIOECON launches the first issue of the BIOECON Newsletter
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25 January
Job announcement: Research careers in social and economic sciences
at CSIRO, Australia: a) Science Leader: Natural Resource Economics, b) Senior Economist: Agricultural Adaptation, c) Agricultural Economist

 
25 January
Job announcement: 2 vacancies for Social Sciences Branch Chief at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, MA, USA:
Supervisory Economist ZP-110-4 (NMFS-NEFSC-2010-0039)
Supervisory Social Scientist ZP-101-4 (NMFS-NEFSC-2010-0042)
Applications deadline: 22 February 2010
 
25 January
Job announcement: Two job openings for economists at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Honolulu, Hawaii
Applications deadline: 12 February 2010
 
27 January
Conference announcement: CNREP 2010 - 3rd National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems
New Orleans, USA, 26-28 May 2010
Subnmissions deadline: 19 February 2010
 
28 January
Job announcement: Researcher, Economic Modelling at Landcare Research, New Zealand
 
28 January
Conference announcement: Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability
London, UK, 13-14 May 2010
1 February
Job announcement: Post Doc Fellow / Lecturer Agricultural and Development Economics at Georg- August-University Göttingen, Germany
Applications deadline: 15 March 2010
 
 
1 February
Job announcement: Assistant Professor in Ecological Economics / Sustainable Behaviours at WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Dept of Socio-Economics, Institute for the Environment and Regional Development (Austria)
Applications deadline: 24 February 2010
 
2 February
Job announcement: Ph.D Course on ‘Stated Preference/Choice Research’ organised by the Centre for Fisheries and Aquaculture Management and Economics (FAME)
University of Southern Denmark - Esbjerg - Denmark, May 17-21, 2010
Applications deadline: 24 February 2010
 
5 February
Report:The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) publishes the “Year in Review 2009”
8 February
Job announcement: PhD Studentships at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Subnmissions deadline: 26 March 2010
 
10 February
Summer School: Belpasso Summer School: The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation
Belpasso (Italy), September 12th - 18th, 2010
Deadline for applications: May 1st, 2010
 
10 February
Call for Practices: "Ecosystem Based Adaptation". Natureandpoverty.net and IUCN invite you to share practices and case studies on Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EbA)
 
11 February
Job announcement: Fishery Economist Positions with National Marine Fisheries Service in Miami, USA (USAJOB code: NMFS-SEFSC-2010-0012)
Deadline for applications: 12 March 2010
 
15 February
Job announcement: Director, ESPA, UK. The DFID/NERC/ESRC Ecosystem Services for Poverty Allevation research programme is recruiting a Director to lead an ESPA Directorate.
Deadline for applications: 9 March 2010
 
15 February
Job announcement: Biodiversity Superintendent for the Rio Tinto’s Simandou project, Guinea.
 
15 February
Job announcement: PhD: The role of biodiversity offsets in landscape planning under environmental change, Fully funded NERC CASE studentship - UK students only.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2010
 
16 February
Job announcement: UC Davis Post-Doctoral Position in Agricultural Decision-Making and Environmental Management
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2010
 
16 February
Job announcement: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Environmental and Resource Economics at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,University of Connecticut
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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