http://www.efdinitiative.org daily 1 2007-11-25T17:36:13Z http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/china/news-press/news-archive/2008/efd-annual-meeting-2008-1 Photos from the Second Annual EfD Meeting in China, 3-6 Nov 2008: No publisher karinbackteman 2008-11-19T18:55:41Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2008/sterner-discussant-at-afd-eudn-2008-in-paris Professor Thomas Sterner was invited as a discussant to a conference in Paris on Nov 12th, entitled Population and natural resources: Managing Pressure, and organised by the French development assistance AFD, Agence Française de Développement, and EUDN, the European Development Research Network. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-11-13T09:14:20Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/tanzania/news-press/news-archive/2008/overfishing-depletes-sangara-in-lake-victoria The Tanzanian newspaper Daily News, one of the biggest English newspapers in the country, interviewed Razack Lokina, fellow reseacher and coordinator of the EfD center in Tanzania, and Hakan Eggert, resident advisor and fellow researcher of the EfD center in Tanzania, on over fishing of Nile perch in Lake Victoria. No publisher Salvatory 2008-11-13T11:16:32Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2008/world-bank-and-the-role-of-institutions-in-sea This seminar was held as part of the institutional collaboration between the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg and the World Bank Environment Department. Presenter was Dr Fernando Loayza, Senior specialist in Strategic Environmental Assessment at the World Bank and coordinator of the World Bank pilot program on Institutions Centered SEA. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-11-01T09:23:27Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2008/workshop-institutions-centered-strategic-environmental-assessment This workshop, organized by the Environmental Economics Helpdesk at EEU, in Gothenburg, Sweden, October 27-28 2008, was held to reflect on the role of institutions and political economy in policy level environmental assessment in a developing country perspective. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-28T11:22:39Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2008/efd-involved-in-aerc-conference-on-natural-resource-management-and-climate-change-in-sub-saharan-africa The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) was hosting an international conference on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa 15-17 September 2008 in Nairobi. EfD Kenya was assisting to organize the workshop. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-24T13:50:00Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/south-africa/news-press/news-archive/2008/conservation-planning-and-adaptive-management-symposium-cape-town How do or should systematic conservation planning and adaptive management relate? A symposium in Cape Town on Wednesday 22 October examined the increasingly-discussed but not clearly resolved issue of how systematic conservation planning and adaptive management inter-relate. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-23T11:19:05Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/news-press/job-openings/job-openings-archive/phd-opportunities-in-economics-ecology Arizona State University welcomes applications from prospective PhD students interested in applied ecology, economics, and systems modeling. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-22T07:00:22Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/kenya/news-press/news-archive/2008/efd-kenya-attended-high-level-congress-on-biodiversity-south-africa Dr. Paul Guthiga of EfD-Kenya recently attended and presented research at an international congress on biodiversity held in South Africa, BIOTA Africa Congress 2008. More than 350 policy-makers, scientists, land users and other stakeholders from 20 African countries, Brazil and Germany discussed solutions for the challenges to Africa’s basis for survival – biological diversity – at Stellenbosch, South Africa from September 29 to October 3. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-15T07:37:06Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/news-press/job-openings/job-openings-archive/postdoc-position-in-conservation-and-development-economics A postdoctoral position in conservation and development is available immediately in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. The post-doctoral researcher will work directly with Dr Erin Sills. No publisher karinbackteman 2008-10-08T06:43:47Z Article