The Economics of Land Degradation Initiative (ELD) secretariat, in cooperation with the the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), are looking for an Environmental Economist to join their team and Working Group as an Integrated Expert at the ICRAF headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This vacancy entails working at ICRAF supporting ELD processes and facilitating synergies between the ELD and ICRAF agendas. For further details please refer to this link.
Vacancies
PhD position at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
The University of Eastern Finland is looking for a highly motivated and skilled PhD researcher to join the project The Nordic Borealization Network (NordBorN) funded by NordForsk’s University Cooperation call. The successful PhD applicant will work with multiple scale (from drones to satellite) remote sensing of shrub encroachment processes in tundra and treeline dynamics. The candidate is expected to have skills in remote sensing and machine learning. The position entails both office work and field work. The PhD researcher will be based at the Joensuu campus of the University of Eastern Finland, at the department of Geography and historicalstudies, and will work closely together with Timo Kumpula and Miguel Villoslada and other members of Digital Geosciences research group. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2024 and the position will start as soon as possible after May 15, 2024. [Read more…] about PhD position at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
Tenure Track Position as WG Lead on “Agricultural Sociology: Acceptance and Transformation Research”
The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) is looking for a working group lead on agricultural sociology. The position will be located in the Research Area “Land Use and Governance” within the Working Group “Co-Design of Change and Innovation” The working group focuses on the actors of agricultural landscapes with their values, norms, interests and knowledges as well as their actions in the context of transformation, change and innovation processes. Overall, the work aims to develop an integrative concept for change and innovation processes in agricultural landscapes. [Read more…] about Tenure Track Position as WG Lead on “Agricultural Sociology: Acceptance and Transformation Research”
Postdoc and PhD opportunities: Planning Resilient Landscapes
Are you interested in advancing the planning and implementation of sponge landscapes in Europe?
Leibniz University Hannover is calling for applications for a PostDoc and a PhD position in Planning Resilient Landscapes to conduct research on nature-based solutions to address floods, droughts, and biodiversity change within the EU Horizon Europe project SpongeWorks. SpongeWorks will advance the upscaling of ‘sponge measures’ as nature-based solutions to boost the natural water retention capacity in Europe.
The positions are supervised by Christian Albert within the Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services working group at Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning.
Please see the following websites for the official announcements:
• PostDoc (m/f/d) in Planning Climate Resilient Landscapes (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 100 %) Due date: March 27, 2024. Key focus: Synthesis research and scientific coordination
• PhD Candidate (m/f/d) in Planning Climate Resilient Landscapes (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 75 %) Due date: April 1, 2024. Key focus: Geodesign for co-creating sponge strategies.
Postdoc Vacancy: Monitoring, modelling, and managing ecosystem services across landscapes in Canada
There is an opening for a postdoctoral scholar to help build an Ecosystem Service Observatory System for Canada. The work will be part of the research carried out within the ResNet project on monitoring, modelling, and managing ecosystem services across landscapes in Canada. The position is supervised by Dr. Elena Bennett, in collaboration with Dr. Rich Sharp at Spring and Dr. Becky Chaplin-Kramer at WWF. The postdoc will be based at McGill’s Macdonald Campus in Montreal. We’re very excited about the possibilities in front of us with this project, and the postdoc has the potential to be at a really cool position at the heart of the work.
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