Jobs & Appointments

The James Hutton Institute Location: Aberdeen Salary: Hutton band E Circa £37,500 to Hutton band F Circa £48,000 per annum Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed on: 25th April 2017 Closes: 21st May 2017 The James Hutton Institute is an international research centre based in Scotland, focusing on the key global challenges, of climate change and food and environmental security. Collaborating with colleagues within the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable […]

The Helmholtz Association is providing long-term investment for the establishment of a new Research Group on Land Use Change at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s Campus Alpin (IMK-IFU) located in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (). This Group aims to advance knowledge of the causes and consequences of change in socio-ecological systems from local to global scales by: a) understanding the fundamental principles that underpin the interactions between people and their environment and encoding these […]

Improving Resilience for the Rio Grande Coupled Human-Natural System Postdoctoral Research Position Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma Job Description The Koch Lab is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers on the integrated modeling of the Rio Grande Basin. The position is part of the project “Improving Resilience for the Rio Grande Coupled Human-Natural System”, funded by the USGS and will focus on […]

An exciting job opportunity to work in large (100+ researchers), transdisciplinary research team. The overall goal of the project is to understand migration in deltas, including the role of climate change, and place this in the context of adaptation choices. We have an open position in the core University of Southampton integrator team for 18 months. The successful applicant has to be comfortable working in the field of both bio-physical and social sciences and who has ABM model […]

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For a detailed description of the PhD-position: http://www.vu.nl/nl/werken-bij-de-vu/vacatures/2014/296.asp Contents of the research Economic losses due to weather related natural hazards continue to rise rapidly in all regions of the world. For example, extreme flood events and storm surges all have a significant impact on society, and these impacts will increase in the future through climate change and socio economic developments. Much research to date has focused on the assessment and […]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIME SHIFTS IN FLOOD-PRONE URBAN AREAS: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH Background: Coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) are known to experience regime shifts. By this we mean fast and usually irreversible changes in systems, like the ones that we observe when ecosystems collapse due to overexploitation, or when economy cannot recover after natural disasters (floods, droughts, etc.), or when societies undergo dramatic changes as in resource-driven conflicts. The topic is of […]

We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Socio-Ecological Systems Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use, the impacts of climate change on rural and urban environments and how people will adapt to these changes. We explore these themes at multiple temporal and spatial scales using different methods such as […]

Postdoctoral Position: Cross-scalar adaptation to socio-hydrological risks in the Mexico City Basin The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University Job Description The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the development of an agent-based model for an innovative NSF-funded project on urbanization, climate change adaptation and social-hydrological […]

Postdoctoral fellowship (OT-Med, Aix-Marseille University, France) : Adaptation to Environmental Change : A Social Learning Process We are looking for a candidate for a post doctoral fellowship who will be part of a project (AMENOPHYS) devoted to analysing the adaptation of societies and economies to their changing environment particularly with reference to the Mediterranean and North African areas. The candidate would be expected to collaborate in the development of models to explain how […]