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Opportunity for Masters student: Promoting sustainable livelihoods within and alongside Transfrontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa
We seek a motivated individual to contribute to assessing the social-ecological resilience of southern African TFCAs, by identifying who accrues the benefits and costs of TFCAs and why.
Opportunity for Masters or PhD student: Assessing the social-ecological resilience of southern African protected area systems
We seek a motivated individual to contribute to assessing the social-ecological resilience of southern African Protected Area systems.
Master’s Opportunity: Using remote sensing to investigate drivers of change in complex social-ecological systems
We seek a motivated individual to undertake a 2-year research Masters using geospatial techniques to investigate the impact of LULC change on the state of water resources in the Okavango basin, or the impact of climate variability and LULC on agricultural production in the Limpopo basin.
Master’s or PhD opportunity: Exploring resilience and leverage points from a social-ecological justice perspective
A resilience approach to sustainability focuses on how to build capacity to deal with unexpected change. This approach moves beyond viewing people as external drivers of ecosystem dynamics and rather looks at how we are part of and interact with nature and ecosystems.
Systemic change, complexity and development
Dr Jean Boulton and Prof Belinda Reyers explore how complexity thinking can inform our understanding of how change comes about, and, based on their practical experience, the implications for International Development.
Looking for the connections: Dr Rika Preiser
As the last to arrive in a family of eight siblings, Dr Rika Preiser has since childhood learnt much about the complexities, interactions, dynamics and undercurrents associated with larger networks or organizations.
Systemic change, complexity and development
In this dialogue, Dr Jean Boulton (Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath), lead author of Embracing Complexity, is in conversation with Prof Belinda Reyers (GRAID, [...]
Looking for the connections: Dr Rika Preiser
As the last to arrive in a family of eight siblings, Dr Rika Preiser has since childhood learnt much about the complexities, interactions, dynamics and undercurrents associated with larger networks [...]
CST Researcher takes learnings to US and Canada
Kweku Koranteng represented the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition at two international conferences last month.
