• Science Symposium, The Americas : Building the Adaptive Capacity to Global Change, 4 May 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  For more information visit http://www.iai.int/. 

• Call for Papers, International Conference on the Female Deficit in Asia, 5-7 December 2005, Singapore. Deadline for submission of paper proposals is 1 June 2005. Notification of acceptance: end of June 2005. Final papers should be submitted to the Committee before 30 October 2005. For more information visit http://www.populationasia.org/Events.htm. 

• Call for Papers, International Organizations and Global Environmental Governance, 2005 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 2-3 December 2005, Berlin, Germany. The deadline for proposals is 31 May 2005. All paper submissions will be reviewed by an international review panel. Notification of the decision will be sent by e-mail no later than 30 June 2005. Full papers are expected by 15 November 2005. For more information visit http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2005/.

FUNDING/STUDY/WORK OPPORTUNITIES

Training Course, Economic Tools for Ecosystem Conservation, 14-27 August 2005, Stanford University , USA.  For more information visit http://www.conservation-strategy.org/Training/training.htm or contact Kristin Schmelz at training@conservation-strategy.org.

• Training Course, Indicators for Sustainable Development, University of East Anglia , 10-21 October 2005, East Anglia , UK.  For more information visit http://www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_indicators2005.html.

• The Latin American and Caribbean Water Prizes, Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC).  For more information visit http://www.cathalac.org . 

•Call for Nominations, The Goldman Environmental Prize. For more information visit http://www.goldmanprize.org/prize/prize.html 

• Manuscript Competition, Novel Approaches of Integrative Science for the Future, Ralf Yorque Memorial Prize.  For more information visit http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/submissions/ry_guidelines.php 

• Paid Fellowship, South Centre Young South Volunteer Programme, Geneva , Switzerland 

• PhD Studentships, Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK. 

• Executive Director, International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), Bonn, Germany.  Deadline for applications: 31 May 2005. To apply, please send the application form (available from website below) together with a CV and a letter outlining any relevant experience and your interests in this topic. For further details please contact H.A.Bulkeley@ durham.ac.uk., or visit http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/postgrad/study_in_geog/.

• Chair in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. For more information on the department visit http://www.geography.unimelb.edu.au 

• Full professor of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies (Instituut voor Milieuvraagstukken; IVM), The Netherlands. More information can be found on the IVM website, http://www.vu.nl/ivm.