FYI.... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:45:15 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Job on Population and Environment ***Apologies for cross-postings*** Dear Colleagues, Your assistance in distributing this urgent announcement through your networks would be greatly appreciated. Work opportunity for running a global scientific network on population-environment analysis (PEN) The IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population) in collaboration with IHDP (International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change) and with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation is launching a scientific network based on the internet to serve as a world-wide clearing house on scientific advances in the field of analysing the complex interactions between human populations and the natural environment. This is an important and exciting new field with many initiatives taken in different parts of the world and from a number of rather different disciplinary perspectives. Due to its fairly recent origin and multidisciplinary nature, this field is still characterized by a lack of efficient communication and methodological consolidation. Guided by a scientific steering committee, the successful applicants will be responsible for keeping the network going through discussion groups, online conferences, bibliographies, solicited contributions, book reviews, etc. The network will initially exist for two years. The work does not require relocation of the successful applicants. It can be done from any place with a good internet connection. Working times are flexible and the applicant does not have to work full-time on the network . Two applicants from different backgrounds will be selected. Compensation will be in the form of fee contracts of up to US$ 50,000.- (full time equivalent per year). A doctorate in a related discipline, research experience in population-environment analysis and computer skills are considered necessary. Applications should be sent before 1 March 2000 to Dr. Wolfgang Lutz, IUSSP Secretary General ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Please address enquiries to Dr Wolfgang Lutz or to Dr. Jill Jaeger, Executive Director, IHDP ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************