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Below are selected opportunities that go beyond the application of environment or development separately and deal with the interaction of environment and development and the contributions of science and technology to sustainable development. The list features a handful of the most exciting opportunities that have been brought to our attention and is intended to suggest the range of what's out there; it is not a comprehensive list nor are these necessarily the best programs in existence. Nominations for additional Opportunities are welcome and should be sent to the Managing Editor via email at .

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NorthStar Fellow
University of Minnesota

Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow
University of Minnesota

FTY 482: Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment.
Forest Bio-products Reserach Initiative/ School of Forest ResourcesUniversity of Maine


MSc in Industrial Ecology
Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands

Editor's Picks

Fellowships in Sustainability Science at Harvard University
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Graduate Assistantships for the study of Complex Systems
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

NAS Science and Technology for Sustainability Program Director
National Academies, Washington, DC

Senior Science Leader CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Alice Springs, Australia

World Habitat Awards 2008

2008 Leopold Leadership Program
The Leopold Leadership Program at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
USA

2008 PhD Summer School on Earth System Governance
The Summer School is jointly organised by the IVM Department of Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) and the Netherlands Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE). 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Vienna, Austria

International Master’s Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
Lund University
Lund, Sweden

Master’s of Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Karlskrona, Sweden

PhD Summer School on Earth System Governance
VU University Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The New School of Sustainability at ASU: MAs and PhDs in Sustainability
Arizona State University    
Tempe, Arizona, USA

Additional Opportunities

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The following links are recommended by the Editors.

PROJECTS
Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project. Michigan State University

EVENTS
Joint ISCN GULF Conference 2009. June 10, 2009

MEMBERS
Francisco Ramón Barbarán, Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina

Vimal Khawas, Council for Social Development

Marcel Bursztyn, Center for International Development - Kennedy Sachool of Government - Harvard University

PUBLICATIONS
Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and.... Haberl, H.; Fischer-Kowalski, M.; Krausmann, F.; Weisz, H.;

Conditions for sustainability of human-environment systems: Information, motivation, and capacity. Eric F. Lambin, Department of Geography, University of...

Going beyond panaceas. Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, and John M. Anderies

 
   
 
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