[APES Jobs] Fwd: SAWMA FW: Post-graduate opportunities with international collaboration: Risk and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Garden Route

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Subject: 	SAWMA FW: Post-graduate opportunities with international 
collaboration: Risk and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Garden Route
Date: 	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:53:02 +0200
From: 	Elma Marais - SAWMA <elma at mweb.co.za>
Reply-To: 	<elma at mweb.co.za>
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CC: 	'Hannes Mitchell' <hannes at sabinet.co.za>



Dear all,  Find below and attached opportunities for your interest.
Kind regards,
Elma
*Social-Ecological Risk, Vulnerability and Adaptations to Climate Change 
in the Garden Route*

This three-year programme is a collaboration between leading social and 
ecological scientists at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and 
CSIR, South Africa, University of Exeter in the UK, Arizona State 
University and CIRAD, IRSTEA and CFE in France. We wish to assess actual 
and perceived risk, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change, and 
social learning in three regions: the Garden Route coast in South 
Africa; the Languedoc-Rousillon in France; and Cornwall in the UK.

The project addresses four research issues:

*Risk and adaptation*

1.How do risk due to climate change; adaptive capacity; human 
perceptions of risk and adaptability; and access to capacity-enhancing 
resources influence the adaptive actions and strategies of decision makers?

*Vulnerability*

2.How do such adaptations unintentionally affect the vulnerability of 
external groups, places or ecosystem services?

*Feedback, reflection and action*

3.Which feedbacks occur when people engage in social learning through 
reflective practice and critical inquiry?

*Behavioral change and transformation*

4.How do perceptions of risk and adaptive capacity change when decision 
makers are actively involved in, learn and reflect, in a process of 
situated social learning?

*Opportunities for involvement*

Opportunities exist for prospective Doctoral, post-Doctoral and Master's 
students to be part of an international consortium that will 
collaboratively address these issues.

Prospective students are encouraged to develop their own topics around 
the above themes. Examples of topics include:

·*Stakeholder engagement through participatory research to promote 
awareness, social learning and ecosystem stewardship in select 
catchments in the Southern Cape.*

·*Risk perceptions and adaptation strategies of farmers, foresters and 
conservationists in the Garden Route. *

·*The intended and unintended consequences of adaptations to risk and 
vulnerability in the Garden Route.*

·*Resilience theory to map areas of risk and vulnerability to climate 
change along the Garden Route coast.*

·*Combining empirical and participatory modeling techniques to assess 
risk and vulnerability of social-ecological systems in the Garden Route.*

In addition to competitive bursaries, participants will have 
extraordinary opportunities to develop international networks and 
contacts and share in the expertise of leading global sustainability 
specialists. Students will be based in the Sustainability Research Unit 
at NMMU's George Campus at Saasveld.

Please contact Prof Christo Fabricius, christo.fabricius at nmmu.ac.za 
<mailto:christo.fabricius at nmmu.ac.za>by 30 September 2013, and feel free 
to visit the Sustainability Research Unit web site www.nmmu.ac.za/sru. 
Prospective students can join any time between September 2013 and 
February 2014.


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