If you are working in environmental management, or wish to learn more about it, this course is designed to support you as a professional.

Do you know anyone working to secure and improve rights across local and indigenous communities in order to build a more sustainable future? Anyone who is fighting to have rights to land recognized so that communities who are stewards of landscapes can continue to use their knowledge and experiences to protect the environment and their livelihoods? From time to time, the media showcases people who are persecuted for their activism and dedication…

UNDP has been supporting the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in meeting its national and international environmental priorities and commitments. These include close to 40 projects in the area of biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource management, climate change and chemical management. UNDP’s support focusses on technical and policy advisory, institutional strengthening and building capacities of various stakeholders to…

The BSc programme International Land and Water Management offered by Wageningen University & Research addresses problems such as drought, erosion, floods and poor land and water management that constitute a major threat to food production.Students combine knowledge of engineering, environmental and social sciences, study the roles of various stakeholders involved and design land and water management improvement plans.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is looking for a National Consultant on Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Case Study home-based, with travel to different locations in Somalia. The general objective of the assignment is to support the national trainees/researchers in undertaking their studies on the costs of land degradation and economic viability of alternative land management approaches, focusing on rangeland degradation.

Land value capture (LVC) can be an important fiscal tool to address inequities in urban development, and it is gaining traction in cities around the world. As a policy approach rooted in the notion that public action should generate public benefit, LVC enables communities to recover and reinvest land value increases that result from public investment and other government actions, such as rezoning. While it is fundamentally a fiscal tool, city…

The Technische Universität München (TUM), in partnership with edX, offers an online course on the basics of land management. Participants will learn why, when, and where sustainable land management is most needed and what the potential application fields of land management are.

The mission of the Arid Lands Resource Sciences (ALRS) program is to provide an academic environment in which to examine the economic, ecological and social factors which determine the long-term sustainable use of arid and semiarid lands. Programme Structure: Core Curriculum: The common core curriculum provides a base from which all students can proceed to more detailed studies in their selected areas of research interests. The core curriculum…

Interested in preserving parks and wildlife for future generations? The Diploma of Conservation and Land Management can help you make a positive contribution to natural environments.The Diploma of Conservation and Land Management reflects the role of personnel working in management positions with technical level skills in conservation and land management roles. Key modules include, among many others: Indigenous land management; Natural area…

LDN represents a paradigm shift in land management policies and practices. It is a unique approach that counterbalances the expected loss of productive land with the recovery of degraded areas. It strategically places the measures to conserve, sustainably manage, and restore land in the context of land use planning. It has strategic implications to how the country plans and manages its land resources. To date, 120 countries have committed to…

Join the Forest Peoples Program, the Tenure Facility, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Land Portal on Thursday, February 18, 2021 for a webinar on Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19. Global leaders increasingly recognize that land rights for indigenous and local communities are a prerequisite for achieving national and international goals for forest governance, food security, climate…

A Land Condition Assessment Specialist is sought by the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML).The selected candidate will work as a Land Condition Assessment Specialist for Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) team at Schofield Barracks, Military Reservation, Hawaii, and its five sub-installations for the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands and Colorado State University. Key Responsibilities will be…

The links between land, reparations and transitional justice are unclear in many post-conflict countries, including South Sudan. The 2013 African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan highlighted land grabbing as a sign of accumulated grievances and called for land reform in transitional justice processes. However, South Sudan’s 2018 peace agreement doesn’t include land-related conflict in the transitional justice framework. This seminar…

SAID sustainable landscapes (SL) and forestry programs promote land-based climate change mitigation at national scales while also improving livelihoods, protecting ecosystems, improving governance, and strengthening resilience. SL programs prioritize landscapes that offer globally important opportunities for carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) management, and focus support to countries where forest loss and land degradation prevail, where land-based…

This online course will cover the agricultural and urban water quality issues in Florida (United States of America), their bases, land and nutrient management strategies, and the science and policy behind the Best Management Practices (BMPs). Students will learn to evaluate BMPs research and analyze its role in determining practices and policies that protect water quality. In this course you will learn: Introduction to Sustainable Agricultural…

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provides travel grants to cover hard costs associated with upcoming travel for an international reporting project. The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for data-driven journalism projects related to land rights and property rights. Projects may focus on issues related to indigenous land rights due to the exploration of natural resources, among many other themes. Most awards fall in the range of US$5-15…

The guest editors welcome expressions of interest for a special issue devoted to highlighting the excellent and cutting-edge scholarship of women and non-binary people in land science. The Journal of Land Use Science (JLUS) posits land as the key interface linking social and natural systems and is thus a critical point of analysis and intervention to global sustainability. We welcome interdisciplinary papers that examine key social trends…

Since 1951, The Nature Conservancy has been doing work you can believe in protecting the lands and waters that all life depends on. As a science-based organization, they create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that they can create a world in which people and nature thrive. They are rooted in their Mission and guided by their Values, which includes a Commitment to Diversity and Respect for People…

FAO in the Caribbean, jointly with governments, implements several projects aiming at improving land administration systems and state land management. To support this work carried at sub regional and national level by FAO representations, FAO is launching this call for expressions of interest to create a sub-regional pool of expertise on land tenure governance for implementation of all facets of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible…