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August 28, 2008
Three faculty positions in human dimensions of global change at University of Maryland. The Department of Geography is seeking candidates for three tenured or tenure-track faculty whose central interests lie in the human dimensions of global change. For details see: http://www.geog.umd.edu/hdgc/ and
http://www.geog.umd.edu/news/hdgcAd.08.08.html

Post-doc fellowships for new PhD’s at the University of Michigan. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors or Research Scientists in appropriate departments and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Eight Fellows will be selected for three-year terms to begin September 1, 2009. The annual stipend will be $51,500.
The online application is available at: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/sof
August 26, 2008
A number of relevant Job announcements can be found at the homepage of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany:
a) in the Climate Impacts-Vulnerabilities domain: details
b) in the Research Domain “Earth System Analysis: details

June 20, 2008
PostDoc position on coupled human-environment systems in rural China. PostDoc position for a period of up to three years to work on coupled human-environment systems in rural China in the framework of an international research group at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Germany. For further information about the position and contact details please see here
June 20, 2008
Permanent resesearch technician position in peatland and permafrost research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology. Research Technician 2. The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites applications for a research technician 2 position to be responsible for the collection and maintenance of environmental data associated with the Alaska Peatland Experiment (please see APEX). More information on the nature of the position can be obtained by contacting Dr. A. David McGuire, 907-474-6242 or email ffadm(at)uaf.edu. Further details and instructions for applying can be found here

June 17, 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado, USA. Further details and instructions for applying can be found here

July 15, 2008
O. Mertz, A. Reenberg, T. B. Bruun and T. Birch-Thomsen: Land use decisions in smallholder rural communities in developing countries.
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, No. 043, 11 pp. June 2008. Link

April 30, 2008
Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb and Fridolin Krausmann: Global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP).
Earth Portal - encyclopedia of Earth. Link

January 22, 2008
B. L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin and Anette Reenberg: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability.
PNAS 104 (52): 20666-20671. Link

December 04, 2007
Helmut Haberl (2007). Measuring the Global Human Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystems – the HANPP Approach. brigdes. Link

October 08, 2007
Ademola K. Braimoh and Paul L.G. Vlek (Eds.): Land Use and Soil Resources. Forthcoming in November 2007. Springer.
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6777-8

September 04, 2007
Helmut Haberl, K. Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Christoph Plutzar, Simone Gingrich, Wolfgang Lucht and Marina Fischer-Kowalski: Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems.
PNAS 104 (31): 12942. Link

November 14, 2007
The Global Carbon Project has just published a new analysis of the state of the carbon cycle and its immediate drivers of perturbation (economic growth, carbon intensity of the global economy, and natural CO2 sinks on land and oceans).
The paper and a ppt file with i) additional carbon trends, and ii) the global carbon budget to 2006 can be downloaded from: Link

The TERACC website now has updated information on 144 global change experiments in 29 countries! Please check here under "Global Change Sites"

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