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Urban Forest Ecosystem Services Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Research Project: The US Forest Service (USFS) Pacific Southwest Research Station in Riverside California, USA is seeking a Post Doc Research Fellow to explore how urban forests and their ecosystem services and disservices affect human wellbeing, particularly in disadvantaged communities. To do this, the research fellow will use quantitative geospatial, statistical, or econometric techniques to analyze diverse environmental, economic, and socio-ecological data sets. This Fellow will be part of a transdisciplinary team of USFS researchers, environmental-based organizations, and local universities and governments from the Greater Los Angeles, CA area.

Closing Date: May 24, 2024 [Read more…] about Urban Forest Ecosystem Services Postdoctoral Fellowship

Vacancy: Environmental economist at ELD/CIFOR-ICRAF

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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.

PhD position at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

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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”

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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

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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.