ISEE- Job Opportunity Chair (W2) of Business Management October 19, 2018Chair of Business Management, esp. Corporate Biodiversity Management at TU Dresden, Germany As part of the Tenure Track Programme of the German Federal Government and the Federal States (Tenure Track Programme), the International Institute Zittau at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, … Continue reading → The post Job Opportunity Chair (W2) of Business Management appeared first […]
- Amazonia and the Setbacks of Brazil’s Political Moment Commentary October 16, 2018ISEE member, Philip Fearnside, provides commentary on 12 October 2018 on Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment. The commentary begins…. Brazil’s presidential election has created virulent polarization in the country with consequences for the Amazon. Right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro won … Continue reading → The post Amazonia and the Setbacks of Brazil’s Political Moment Commentary […]
- Computational Sustainability and Sustainable Systems Engineering Position October 8, 2018Computational Sustainability and Sustainable Systems Engineering WORK TYPE: Faculty Full-Time LOCATION: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL) CATEGORIES: Engineering/Computer Science/Environmental Science/Ecology DEPARTMENT: 19070000 – EG-ENG SCH SUSTAIN INFRST ENV CLASSIFICATION TITLE: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Job Description: The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) … Continue reading → The post Computational Sustainability and Sustainable Systems Engineering Position appeared first […]
- Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity October 1, 2018Just published: An edited volume titled “Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity”, edited by Sharachchandra Lele, Eduardo S. Brondizio, John Byrne, Georgina M. Mace and Joan Martinez-Alier and published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. The book is the result … Continue reading → The post Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity appeared first […]
- Puebla, ISEE2018 Conference, Inauguration Address September 26, 2018Puebla, ISEE2018 Conference, Inauguration Address Clóvis Cavalcanti, ISEE President Dear friends, With great honor and joy, I ask your permission and the organizers’, in the name of their coordinator, my old friend David Barkin, to offer you a few words … Continue reading → The post Puebla, ISEE2018 Conference, Inauguration Address appeared first on The […]
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability September 26, 2018Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Volume 34, October 2018, Pages 26-32 Gender equality, food security and the sustainable development goals by Bina Agarwal Abstract This paper examines the potential and limitations of SDG 5 (Gender Equality) in helping to achieve household food … Continue reading → The post Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability appeared first on The […]
- ReBirth: Trip to Vicente Guerrero September 19, 2018Prior to ISEE2018 Conference in Puebla, Mexico, a visit to Vicente Guerrero peasant community was arranged. Here is a report from a participant. Rebirth: Trip to Vicente Guerrero by Oliver Braunschweig* Rebirth, I would say, is the theme of the … Continue reading → The post ReBirth: Trip to Vicente Guerrero appeared first on The […]
- World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity September 11, 2018World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity Posted by Stuart Scott, ISEE Strategist, stuart.h.scott@gmail.com I have been collaborating with the group that issued the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – Second Notice in December 2017. The result was the ScientistsWarning.org website which … Continue reading → The post World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity appeared first on The […]
- September 24 Deadline for COP-24 September 11, 2018Posted by Stuart Scott, ISEE Strategist COP-24 This year the ISEE has been granted provisional* Observer status to the UNFCCC climate negotiations. I applied for this status, with Anne Aitken’s assistance, and I am now the DCP (Designated Focal Point) … Continue reading → The post September 24 Deadline for COP-24 appeared first on The […]
- Bina Agarwal Prize for Ecological Economics September 4, 2018BINA AGARWAL PRIZE FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS Call for Nominations Deadline for receipt of nominations: 28 February 2019 Nomination Form: The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) announces the Bina Agarwal Prize for Ecological Economics to be awarded biennially, for outstanding contributions in … Continue reading → The post Bina Agarwal Prize for Ecological Economics appeared first on […]
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ISC Elections Committee Deadline: 20 December 2017
The new Governing Board of the International Science Council (ISC) will be elected during the founding General Assembly in July 2018. According to the new Council’s Statutes and Rules of Procedure, as discussed and agreed during the October 2017 meeting … Continue reading
ISSC to merge with ICSU to create International Science Council
World’s leading bodies of social and natural sciences agree to merge in 2018, forming the ‘International Science Council’ to serve as the global voice for science At a historic joint meeting, members of two leading international science councils voted to … Continue reading
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ISSC & ICSU Members Vote to Pursue a Merger
World’s top bodies representing the social and natural sciences vote to pursue a merger, forming a single organization representing all social and natural sciences by 2018 At a landmark joint General Assembly of two leading international science councils, their members … Continue reading
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Join the science community at COP21
The COP21 conference on climate change will begin in little over a week. Will you be attending? Paris will be busy with representatives from all over the world attending the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, and ISSC is working with Future … Continue reading
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