Sustainability
Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies
Tobias Zumbraegel completed a PhD with a focus on politics and sustainability in Qatar, Saudi and Kuwait, which was revised / expanded and published as “Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies” in 2022 with Palgrave. The basis of the study is existing literature and 53 interviews. Given it is a doctoral dissertation at […]
Tags: #Arabian Gulf #GCC #Politics #Sustainability #Tobias Zumbraegel
Sustainable Qatar
New OPEN ACCESS book Sustainable Qatar: Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives Available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-7398-7 Abstract: This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the […]
Tags: #Middle East #Qatar #Sustainability #Sustainable Qatar #Transition
New Publication: Does diversification enhance community resilience? A critical perspective
Cochrane, L. and Cafer, A. (2018) Does Diversification Enhance Community Resilience? A Critical Perspective. Resilience. https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2017.1406849 Abstract: Resilience has become a key component of how practitioners and scholars conceptualize sustainable communities. Given sustainability’s focal role in shaping international development funding, policies and programming it is imperative that we critically engage with the concepts embedded within the […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Diversification #Ethiopia #Resilience #Sustainability
Funded MA: Education for Sustainable Development
Location: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Start Date: September 2017 Salary: $12,000/year stipend (with possibility of further scholarship opportunities) THE PROJECT Sustainable Development cannot be achieved through one sector alone, yet education in particular is seen as a vehicle to move us towards this goal. While there is a plethora of literature that examines the […]
Tags: #Education #Environmental Studies #Sustainability #Sustainable development
Post-doc: Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development
Full-time, 24-month appointment jointly in the Department of Geography and the Institute for Great Lakes Research (IGLR). The initial appointment will be for two years; continuation of the appointment is subject to funding and contingent upon satisfactory performance review. The successful candidate will conduct research mainly at the CMU main campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The […]
Tags: #Environmental Economics #Geography #Sustainability #Sustainable development #Water
Post-doc: Bioenergy
Michigan Technological University / NSF PIRE Supported Post-Doctoral Position in Bioenergy Development and Sustainability Position Summary: The Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University invites applications for a one-and-a-half year Post–Doctoral Fellowship, beginning on or about January 1, 2017, focused on the socioecological impacts of sustainable bioenergy development across the Americas. The position is funded […]
Tags: #Bioenergy #Ecosystems #Interdisciplinary #Socioecological #Sustainability
Post-doc: Water Scarcity (South Africa)
Future Water, a recently formed interdisciplinary research institute based at UCT, is looking for four dynamic and motivated post-doctoral fellows to join a diverse multi-disciplinary team focused on alleviating water scarcity. Research within the Future Water institute focuses on four major themes: ‘New Taps’ – new water resources; ‘Blue-Green Infrastructure’ – water sensitive design and […]
Tags: #Governance #Interdisciplinary #Policy #Sustainability #Water
Navigating Complexity in International Development
Danny Burns and Stuart Worsley offer one of the best development studies reads of 2015 with their book “Navigating Complexity in International Development: Facilitating Sustainable Change at Scale.” There are shelves of books that cover similar topics in development studies, with much repetition and little innovative thinking. Burns and Stuart offer just that by viewing […]
Tags: #Complex systems #Complexity #International development #Power #Sustainability
6 Post-docs at Royal Roads (Canada)
Topics: Working with Dr. Brian Belcher, Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sustainability Research Effectiveness, the post-doc will focus on research to assess the effectiveness and the impact of transdisciplinary research (TDR) for improved livelihoods, community resilience, and environmental sustainability. Working with Dr. Ann Dale, Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability, the post-doc will […]
Tags: #Climate change #Education #Leadership #Public Health #Sustainability
4 PhD Studentships: Climate Change
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) offers 4 scholarships to candidates who would like to pursue their PhD degree at ICTA within the Strategic Research Programme ICTA-UAB María de Maeztu, Programme for Units of Excellence in R&D (MDM-2015-0552). The positions are related to the call “Ayudas para […]
Tags: #Climate change #PhD Studentship #Scholarship #Sustainability
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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