Conferences and Workshops Funding/Study/work Opportunities

•  Call for Papers, Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation, 2-4 April2008, University of Oxford, UK

            The conference will be comprised of plenary sessions by invited keynote speakers supplemented by parallel sessions of contributed oral communications and workshops further exploring the following main themes of the conference: Concepts and methods for research on food systems, vulnerability and adaptation, scenarios and decision support; Regional research from the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Southern Africa, The Caribbean, Europe and elsewhere; The development agenda and policy processes regarding GEC and food security; Emerging issues and frameworks for analysis and policy development of adaptation options for food systems to GEC. Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentation at the conference and should be submitted online by 31 October 2007. For more information visit http://www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com

• Call for Papers and Foreign Scholar Travel Award, 23rd Annual Symposium of Landscape  Ecology,   6-10 April 2008, Madison, WI, USA

            Contemporary landscape ecology continues to explore the causes and consequences of landscape heterogeneity across a range of scales, and demand for the scientific underpinnings of landscape planning and management remains high. The 23rd annual symposium will focus on one of the current frontiers in landscape ecology: understanding the patterns, causes, and consequences of spatial heterogeneity for ecosystem function. The United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) has a program to support attendance at the annual meeting by landscape ecologists from foreign countries and to foster international exchange about advances in landscape ecology. The award recipients will receive US $1,200 at the Annual Meeting. It is the recipients’ responsibility to make all transportation arrangements and cover all transportation and lodging costs associated with participating in the meeting. Eligibility:  1. Applicants are NOT eligible if: (a)  the applicant is a citizen or current resident of the United States or Canada; (b) the applicant is a citizen of a G7 country (France, US, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy); (c) the applicant (of any nationality) is currently studying in the United States or Canada; and (d) the applicant (of any nationality) received a Master’s or Doctorate at an institution in the United States or canada,  Applicants must submit an abstract for a paper or poster presentation at the 2008 conference. You must submit your abstract to the conference organizers by 2 November 2007. Criteria:  (1) Scientific merit and application to landscape ecology; (2) Financial need. Applicants must have demonstrated; (3) Professional development; (4)  Geographical representation. (5) Clarity of English and expression. How to apply: A complete application contains the following: (1) Name, Institution, Email address, Postal Address, Citizenship; (2) Curriculum vitae (maximum 4 pages); (3) Title and abstract of the paper or poster you will present at the Conference.  The abstract should also be independently submitted to the conference organizers. (4) A summary of your research (750 words maximum) explaining how your research extends the scientific basis or application of landscape

ecology. (5) Statement on what you hope to gain professionally from attending the US-IALE Conference (200 words maximum). (6) An explanation (200 words maximum) of why you need financial assistance to attend the conference. Submit your abstract to the conference organizers by 2 November 2007 at the conference website. Submit your FSTA application materials to the address below by 2

November 2007: sriffell@cfr.msstate.edu, or by post (please include disk copy) to Sam Riffell, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, Box 9690, Mississippi State, MS 39762-9690. Awards will be announced on or before 31 December, 2007. For more information visit:

http://www.cof.orst.edu/org/usiale/madison2008/index.htm

  
•  Call for Papers, International Seminar  on The Emergence of Social Differences in Mortality:    Time Trends, Causes, and Reactions, 29-30, May 2008, Alghero, Italy  

            Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography in cooperation with the Società Italiana di Demografia Storica (SIDES), the University of Sassari and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Since the 1980s, socioeconomic inequality in adult mortality has become a key topic for epidemiologists, demographers and policy makers. A number of studies reported a widening of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality since the 1960s and as a consequence, the study of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality became an important issue. Most of these studies have a very imited time horizon making it difficult to assess the direction of the trend. This International Seminar will bring together demographers, historians, epidemiologists, and social and political scientists who are interested in long-term trends in socioeconomic mortality differences, in particularly among the adult and elderly population, and in the political and societal reactions to these differences. The focus is mainly on the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. We welcome contributions relating to a variety of settings and regions, from researchers in both developed and developing countries. Papers may be country-specific or comparative. Especially encouraged are contributions on the changes over time in the relationship between mortality, social class and gender, on the relationship between locality and social class differences in mortality, including studies using multi-level and event history models that account for temporal variations of contextual effects and papers that will account for the temporal variations of the contextual effects over long periods of time. Deadline for submission of abstract: 1 October 2007.  For information visit http://www.iussp.org/Activities/hisdem/call08.php

 

 

 

 

 

•  UNFPA 2007 State of the World Population Report Focuses on Urbanization

                        The 2007 State of the World Population report is entitled “Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth.” Taking aim against prevailing assumptions that an urban future means an unsustainable future, the report’s editor, George Martine (and a contributor to PERN’s cyberseminar on urban expansion), makes the case that urbanization could be the planet’s best hope for sustainability, provided that cities are properly planned and resourced.  For more information and the full report visit http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

• Third National Conference on  Population, Health, and Environment  (PHE)   Tagaytay City, Philippines, 5 - 7 March 2008.

The Population Reference Bureau and Conservation International invite you to submit an abstract to participate in an exciting and rewarding conference to promote equity, health, and environmental stewardship.

Conference Theme: Scaling Up PHE

Who should participate? Field practitioners, policymakers, researchers, educators, media, community leaders, and advocates who want to explore strategies and opportunities for advancing population, health and environment integration or for communicating on these complex development topics.

Abstract submission deadline: October 30, 2007
For questions, contact one of the Conference Secretariats or Lisa Colson, Population Reference Bureau, at lcolson@prb.org. www.prb.org  www.phenetwork.ph/home.asp

 

•  Assistant Professor , Department of  Geography, University of California,  Berkeley,  CA, USA

 The Dept of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track position, starting 1 July 2008, pending budgetary approval. The department is searching for a Human Geographer working at the intersections of society, nature, and space on issues of contemporary global significance. Examples of such issues include, but are not limited to: the social dimensions of climate change and natural disasters; environmental dimensions of civil, racial or ethnic conflicts; the socio-spatial and environmental dimensions of pandemics; water and food security; or the emergence and dynamics of mega-cities and slums. Regional or comparative expertise is open; applications are welcome across all geographical scales and methods. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, up to three reprints, and three letters of reference (please refer your referees to the University’s statement on confidentiality, found at

http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html)postmarked no later than 7 December 2007. Apply to: Search Committee, Department of Geography, 507 McCone Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720-4740

 

• Assistant Professor, Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA

Clark University announces a tenure-track position starting August 2008. PhD required at time of appointment. Clark’s School of Geography seeks a scholar with expertise in Earth Systems Science (ESS) linked to one of our three research foci: GIScience, Nature-Society Studies,and Globalization, Cities, and Development. The department seeks a faculty member to join our growing ESS concentration in the Environmental Science major at Clark, and whose research interests link systematically to one or more of geography’s graduate-level foci. Applicants are expected to engage in cutting edge scholarship in integrated environmental science and to be committed to securing extramural funding and team-based activities to support our research program. All facets of ESS will be considered. Examples of linkages to our research foci include geoscience and land degradation, climate change and ecological processes, and biodiversity and urban ecology. Strong undergraduate and graduate teaching, advising, and mentoring are required. Send CV, statements about current and future [1] research program and [2] teaching interests and philosophy, and contact information for three references to Ms. Jean Heffernan, School of Geography, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610. Review of applications commences 15 October 2007.  For more information visit

http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/

 

 

 

 

 

• Assistant Professor, Urban and/or   Economic  Geography, Department of  Geography,   University of Denver,  CO,USA

The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses in urban or economic geography, introductory human geography, and other courses related to systematic interest. The successful candidate will be expected to solicit extramural funding, maintain an active research program, and supervise graduate student research. The University of Denver is a mid-sized independent institution situated in Colorado’s dynamic Front Range urban corridor. The Geography Department consists of eleven faculty members and offers the PhD in geography, masters degrees in geography and GIScience, undergraduate degrees in geography and environmental science, and a geology minor. In addition, the department has a strong internship program in which graduate and undergraduate students work with the City and County of Denver, The National Park Service, Environmental Systems Research Incorporated (ESRI) and other public and private agencies using various geographic information elated technologies. The Department is equipped with first class teaching, research, and computer laboratories. The University maintains a corporate partnership and site license with ESRI.Facilities include three GIS instructional labs, a remote sensing lab, climate lab, soils lab, palynology lab, a regional GPS base station, and a special projects lab.  Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Geography or related discipline by 1 September 2008. Closing Date: Open until filled. Review of completed applications begins 1 October 2007. Apply: Qualified applicants should complete on-line application and attach cover letter, curriculum vitae, and statement of research interests at http://www.dujobs.org/applicants/Central?quickFind=53414.

Send three letters of recommendation and teaching evaluations or other evidence of teaching quality under separate cover to Dr. Andrew R. Goetz, Search Committee Chair, Department of Geography, 2050 E. Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO 80208. For more information visit http://www.geography.du.edu

 

•  Lectureship in Development and/or  Environmental Social Science, Department of  Geography, King’s    College London, UK                      

King’s College London is seeking a lecturer in Human Geography with expertise in either Environment and/or Development to strengthen further our research and teaching in these areas.  This is an early career opportunity and KCL encourages applications from scholars who are a few years into their careers or who have just completed (including those at the point of completing) their PhD. In addition to an existing record of scholarship, KCL would expect candidates to have well defined plans for future research and publication and future research plans. The advertised post will contribute to the Environment, Politics and Development Research Group. The Department visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/geography appointee will build an international research profile; seek research funding particularly from research councils; contribute to teaching and learning at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels; recruit, and seek funding to support, research students in her/his area of expertise; and contribute to cross research group developments. Applicants wishing to discuss the post informally may contact Professor Tim Butler, Head of Department (tim.Butler@ kcl.ac.uk) or Professor Michael Redclift (michael.r.redclift@ kcl.ac.uk) who chairs the Environment, Politics and Development Research Group.Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from Strand Human Resource Services, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (fax: 020 7848 1352; e-mail: strand-recruitment @kcl.ac.uk ) quoting reference A2/DAR/017/07on all correspondence. The closing date for applications is 21 September 2007. For more information on the research undertaken by members of the Geography

Department visit  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/geography. 

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