The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, invites applications for four new positions in applied economics for global land use modeling. A successful candidate will further develop an existing global agricultural and forestry sector model, implement, and share his or her work through the publication of results of topics ranging from climate change adaptation and mitigation, to food security and timber markets modeling. His or her research will contribute to the strategic goals of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program which include supporting policy makers in the development rational, realistic, and science-based strategies for the management of ecosystems that provide food, feed, fiber, water and energy, within the context of climate change.
For more information, including a detailed description for each position, please visit:
Research Scholar in Forestry and Applied Economics
Research Assistant in Tropical Deforestation Modeling
Research Scholar in Applied Economics (Regional scenarios and GHG emissions)
Research Scholar in Agricultural and Applied Economics
IIASA positions in applied economics for global land use modeling
August 29th, 2013 by ola No comments »15th SSAFR Quebec 2013
March 1st, 2013 by ola No comments »Professors Sophie D’Amours and Mikael Rönnqvist would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 15th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. The theme for this year’s conference is Analytics for Sustainable Forest Value Chains. The event will be held from August 19th to August 21th, 2013, at the Hôtel Château Laurier in Quebec City, Canada.
Please submit your 2-page abstract by March 1st, 2013 using the submission page on the conference website: http://www.ssafr2013.com. The 2nd call for papers is attached to this email.
You will find also attached to this email a call for the organization of special sessions aimed at junior researchers (PhDs, postdocs and research associates).
You are more than welcome to share this call for papers with your colleagues and students.
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Marc-André
Marc-André Carle
Coordonnateur // Coordinator
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la planification de réseaux de création de valeur durable dans l’industrie forestière // Canada Research Chair in Planning Sustainable Forest Value Networks
Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, bur. 3348
Université Laval
Tél. : (418) 656-2131 poste 7648
Courriel / Email: marc-andre.carle@forac.ulaval.ca
Social media : Twitter – @ORNinja // Blog : www.thequestforoptimality.com
Applications to the 2nd edition of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course Programme: MEDfOR
November 4th, 2012 by ola No comments »We are welcoming applications to the second edition of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course Programme: MEDfOR – Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (2013-2014). Please check http://www.medfor.eu/ and the flyer attached to this email. Deadline: January 15th, 2013
The programme welcomes students from all over the world. Call for applications for EMMC scholarships will open on September 1, 2012 .
The application information and forms may be checked at https://medfor.isa.utl.pt/howtoapply/schollarships
Contact information at http://www.medfor.eu/contacts/secretariat
INTEGRAL – 1st newsletter
May 7th, 2012 by ola No comments »|
INTEGRAL - Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes - is a FP7 Seventh Framework Programme with 21 Project Partners from 14 countries. INTEGRAL relies heavily on fores DSS for its completion. The four-year cooperation project provides a coherent process of policy formation for integrated management of European forest landscapes. INTEGRAL will (1) create knowledge and competence base for integrating international, national and local levels in participatory decision and planning processes and (2) provide recommendations for new coherent policy instruments and management strategies as well as decision support tools. The first newsletter of the INTEGRAL is now out. With the newsletter service free biannual updates will be provided to keep relevant target groups at EU-, national and regional level informed on news about the project, scheduled events and recent publications. |
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CompSust’12: 3rd International Conference on Computational Sustainability
April 30th, 2012 by ola No comments »Location: Biocenter, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: July 5-6, 2012 (master class held July 4, 2012)
The conference focuses on computational methods for balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable future. Through talks, discussions, poster sessions, and invited talks, the conference program will investigate the major problem domains that impact global sustainability, those technologies and processes that offer the greatest opportunity to increase sustainability in these domains, and the fundamental computational methods that support these technologies and processes. Participants include representatives from national and international research institutions and government agencies. CompSust’12 will also introduce a new Master Class component, providing high level tutorials in mainstream computational sustainability research directions.
Training School on Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Forest Management
March 12th, 2012 by hvacik No comments »In the context of the COST Action FORSYS a Training School on “Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Forest Management” is organized by BOKU and taking place from 16.09-21.09.2012 in Vienna, Austria. The training school intends to focus on the development and application of forest management decision support systems (DSS). The general aim of the course is to make participants familiar with the challenges of DSS development, give insight to existing DSS cases and allow them to contribute to projects focussing on decision support. The training school will concentrate on the theory of decision sciences, case studies and practical training examples. Thematic issues to be addressed will include the wide range of topics covered in sustainable forest management in particular focussing on challenges related to spatial planning, predicting forest dynamics under climate change and modelling trade offs of different ecosystem services.
The Training School is targeted to postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of every student’s doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least some substantive work, but not to have completely finished their thesis. Interested candidates should send the application to the chair of the organizing committee: Harald Vacik (harald.vacik@boku.ac.at). Deadline for the application is 3rd of June 2012. The Organizing Committee will select the candidates based on their application.
Reminder FORSYS conference in Slovakia, 10-12 May
February 10th, 2012 by ola No comments »Scientific Conference IMPLEMENTATION OF DSS INTO THE FORESTRY PRACTICE
Deadline for abstract submission is 15.02.2012
/Ola Eriksson (chair)
iEMSs 2012 – 1-5 July
November 16th, 2011 by ola No comments »6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), 1 – 5 July 2012, Leipzig, Germany. For more information, see http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/workshops_E.html.
PhD-position in decision support tools
November 4th, 2011 by ola No comments »PhD-position in decision support tool for forest management at UMB, Norway. See further information on http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=78631&uid=2811.
FORSYS flyer
April 18th, 2011 by ola No comments »An excerpt of the journal International Innovation is now available as a high- and low-resolution PDF. It may be edited, for instance to better fit a two page leaflet. The entire magazine can be viewed online by filling in a couple of details at the registration page and click on the edition headed ‘Addressing food security’. Note that the article follows a standard 3-page format common to all project commentaries in the journal.
/Ola (Action chair)
