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We are seeking a crop modeller to join a recently launched project focused on improving climate resilience and food security in Brazil. The project is a partnership between the University of Leeds, the Met Office and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) in the UK; and with the Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN) and the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
The work undertaken by The James Hutton Group is right at the top of the global agenda tackling problems such as the impact of climate change and threats to food and water security.
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We would like to draw your attention to an opportunity for junior socio-environmental systems scientists (PhD students and postdocs). The POLISES research group offers several fully funded 3-mont[…]
The Center for Climate Systems Research in the Earth Institute at Columbia University invites applicants for a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist position focused on the creation of a Symbiotic Agent-Based Network Platform for analysis of food security and human migration. This appointment is full-time and located at the Columbia University Morningside campus.
Full-time postdoc research position for integrated crop modeling in the context of climate change and food security temporarily limited to 3 years at our location in Müncheberg beginning 1 March 2019. Application deadline is January 28, 2019. Please send your application preferably by e-mail (one PDF file, max. 5 MB) with the usual documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names of three references) stating the reference number 05-2019 until 28th January 2019 to: [email protected].
The University of Edinburgh and the James Hutton Institute are hiring a joint PhD student to work on agent-based models of food security, biodiversity and global trade. It is a fully funded posit[…]
We offer a vacancy in the field of social-ecological simulation modelling for synthesis work on pastoral systems.
The Research Group on Climate Change and Food Security at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen has an open Postdoc position in crop-soil process modelling of arable and agroforestry systems.
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 […]
At the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Germany, a new research project will be launched with funds from the German Research Foundation: SEEMI (Social-Ecological Effects of Microinsurance). It focuses on microinsurance, i.e. insurance products that are specifically targeted at low-income people in developing countries, and its potential adverse effects. Case studies include drought insurance in Kenya and Ethiopia and health insurance in Cambodia. The main research […]
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