PhD studentship on the social and environmental outcomes of reforestation processes

Deadline: 12 February 2024 Midnight (GMT)

Interviews: 22 February 2024

Studentship Funding

The Sustainable Forest Transitions (SFT) Project is recruiting one full-time PhD student at the Global Development Institute (University of Manchester) from September 2024 to work on one of two themes:

Theme 1: Evaluating social and environmental outcomes of reforestation drivers using large-scale publicly available social and environmental datasets.

Join the Lancet Countdown Academic Leadership Team!

The Lancet Countdown is seeking to appoint globally recognised academic leaders to steer its new phase of increased ambition.

As it enters a new phase of increased ambition, the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is seeking to appoint, through an open recruitment, five new Working Group Chairs and five new Working Group Co-Chairs, to steer its academic activities.

Policy Nook — Policy Note: Benefit Cost Analysis of Water Investments in the Anthropocene

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Introduction

Water management is becoming increasingly challenging. The core problem in many locations is an old one: water scarcity will increase as demand rises due to population and economic growth. Conditions in the modern Anthropocene — higher temperatures, continental drying, higher evaporation, and non-stationary hydrology — will add complexity.

Policy Design, Water