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2-Year Post Doc Position Closing 2 April

Key Details

Would you like to further your career by applying your quantitative energy and economic skills at one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Do you have the ability to work at the forefront of the emerging field of exergy economics to find new insights into an urgent global issue: how can we decouple energy use from economic growth?

If so, this could be the opportunity for you.The key details are:

• Research Fellow in Energy and Macroeconomics
• Job details and application process here: http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ENVEE1390
• Closing date Thurs 02 Apr 2020.
• Envisaged start: some time June-Oct 2020

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Invitación a Congreso de Economía Ecológica

II CENTRAL AMERICAN CONGRESS OF EARTH SCIENCES AND THE SEA AND IV CONGRESS OF THE SOCIETY MESOAMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS FROM THE 12 TO THE 15 MAY 2020

The conference is open to students, academics and professionals in the thematic areas of the congress. 

The goals of the conference are: 

• Socialize the results of research conducted in public and private institutions of Mesoamerican and Caribbean region, in the field of earth sciences, environment, natural resources, land use and ecological economics.
• To provide a space for dialogue on national and international experiences in the use of natural resources and its impact on socioeconomic development and the environment.
• Share experiences on diagnostic methodologies and strategies to respond to major social and environmental issues, with a view to building capacity in academia and institutions of Mesoamerican and Caribbean countries.
• Propose new analysis schemes to the traditional production model of modern society, by addressing sustainable alternatives to the productivist and extractive economy and management of the territory.

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Population Matters February Members’ Update

Director’s message

Prior to writing this piece I was down at Bristol’s Climate Strike at which Greta Thunberg spoke – eloquently direct as ever, drawing a crowd thousands strong. It’s fantastic to see young and old out on the streets demanding urgent action on the ‘climate emergency’. But there’s a worrying ‘climate myopia’ amongst some climate campaigners, which dismisses, deprioritises or simply edits out all other issues and factors.

An example of this was last November’s issue of Extinction Rebellion’s free newspaper Hourglass, which reported on the World Scientists’ Warning statement signed by over 11,000 scientists from 153 countries, but which was selective in the ‘key factors’ the journalist chose to highlight.

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