Jobs
Faculty position in Land Economics
National Chengchi University
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Friday, January 5, 2018
The Dept. of Land Economics at National Chengchi University is seeking a full-time assistant professor, associate professor or professor for the field of Spatial Planning and Climate Change.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Kansas State University
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Friday, December 1, 2017
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Geography Department at Kansas State University beginning August 2018 with focus on nature-society interactions and applications of complex systems thinking and geospatial computational methods.
Assistant Professor of Political Ecology
University of Alabama
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Friday, December 1, 2017
The Department of Geography at The University of Alabama seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor who will support the continued expansion of their Department including the implementation of their new Ph.D. program.
15 PhD Positions Available in Global Land-Use Change and Telecoupling
COUPLED European Training Network
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Friday, November 24, 2017
Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN Programme, the COUPLED network PhD students will be selected for 3-year advanced multidisciplinary research training in Global Land-Use Change and Telecoupling, starting July 2018 or earlier.
Postdoc in Global Synthesis of Large-Scale Acquisitions
University of Alabama
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Applications are invited for a 2-year position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate as part of a newly NASA-funded interdisciplinary project titled “The Global Land Rush: A Socio-Environmental Synthesis”. This project will conduct an integrated global synthesis of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), a growing phenomenon in the global South as governments and transnational investors seek to secure access to land in developing countries to produce food, bio-fuels, and non-agricultural commodities.
Assistant Professor of Earth Sensing and Ecosystem Dynamics
Ohio State University
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The Ohio State University seeks a scholar who works with sensor technology data from remote platforms (aircraft, drones, or satellite) and/or sensor networks, with applications in land cover change and ecosystem dynamics at local to global scales.
Assistant Professor (tenure track): Humans in the Earth System
University of California Irvine
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The Department of Earth System Science (ESS) at The University of California Irvine seeks to hire an Assistant Professor with expertise in the coupling of human and natural systems, with the goal of strengthening the department’s commitment to understanding and teaching how Earth system change interacts with human systems.
Postdoc in Land-Change Analysis
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
This postdoc will test for the urban region of Austin, TX (USA) the theoretical model and tools currently designed by the CONCUR team.
Fully-funded PhD project in Singapore
Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The CHNS Lab is seeking an enthusiastic PhD student with an interest in conservation biology and land use and land cover change in Southeast Asia.
Associate Professor of Globalization of Agriculture and Rural Transformation
University of Copenhagen
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
The purpose of the position is to strengthen and develop ongoing research on the interaction between the globalization of agriculture and socio-economic dynamics in rural areas that are undergoing transformations. The research will have a specific focus on Africa and Asia.
Full Professor in Biodiversity Economics
iDiv and Leipzig University
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Sunday, October 15, 2017
The Faculty of Economics and Management Science of Leipzig University is looking to fill this position as soon as possible.
Post-doc or Ph.D. in LULCC impacts on ecosystems
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU
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Sunday, October 15, 2017
Within a joint project with CIAT/Nairobi Karlsruhe Institute of Technology seeks a post-doctoral scientist or Ph.D. student to explore how different management practices affect crop yields, soil carbon pools and other ecosystems across Eastern Africa.
Postdoctoral position in Sustainability and leakage in beef & soy supply chains in South America
Chalmers University of Technology
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Sunday, October 15, 2017
This postdoctoral position focuses on understanding the role that agricultural commodity supply chain sustainability initiatives, such as certification schemes, moratoria, voluntary corporate commitments and government regulations, play in reducing the clearance forests and other ecosystems in the tropics.
PhD studentship - Resilience and pastoralism: satellite-based decision support system for pastures
University of Sussex
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Sunday, October 15, 2017
The University of Sussex is seeking a PhD candidate to work closely with ForPAc to assess the potential of new earth observation datasets (e.g., Sentinel) to deliver near real-time monitoring and prediction of useful and accessible biomass for pastoralism.
PhD fellow in geography
University of Copenhagen
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Thursday, October 12, 2017
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD scholarship in geography commencing 01.04.2018 or as soon as possible thereafter to study the spill-over effects of demands for certified tropical products in Europe.
Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Geography
Clark University
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Saturday, October 7, 2017
Clark University is especially interested in applicants with substantive interests in one or more of: feminist political ecology, gender and environment, race and environment, critical social theory, indigenous studies, urban ecology, food systems, environmental and climate justice, materialism, animal geographies, or posthumanism, and the ability to contribute to teaching in one or more of Clark’s curricula in Women’s and Gender Studies, Global Environmental Studies, and Earth System Science.
Mapping the different types of forest of the Congo Basin by high resolution satellite remote sensing
Université catholique de Louvain
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Saturday, September 30, 2017
The successful applicants for this position with the Université catholique de Louvain will be in charge of the necessary satellite remote sensing development and of the production of national forest maps for the 10 countries of the Congo Basin (Central Africa).
PhD fellowship: Natural habitat change detection with Sentinel-1&2 remote sensing for biodiversity monitoring
Université catholique de Louvain
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Saturday, September 30, 2017
In the context of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium for biodiversity and ecosystems (Lifewatch), an interdisciplinary team coordinated by UCL in partnership with ULg (biodiversity and landscape unit) provides tailor-made geographic database of the natural habitats in order 1) to contribute to biodiversity information in Wallonia and 2) to reinforce the excellence of European biodiversity research.
3 postdoc research positions on indigenous communities, land use and tropical deforestation (INCLUDE)
University of Bern (Switzerland) and University of Reading (UK)
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Friday, August 18, 2017
Openings are available for 3 post-doctoral research positions Switzerland and the United Kingdom as part of the ERC Consolidator Grant funded project “Indigenous Communities, Land Use and Tropical Deforestation” (INCLUDE).
PhD Candidates: Development of Data Mining Aided 4D-visualisations System for Eco-space Appraisals
UNSW Sydney
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Friday, July 21, 2017
Australian mining industry continuously seeks improvement in environmental performances to set leading practice examples across the globe. To this end, there is a need to develop an automated system that could integrate varied sources of remotely obtained data from various platforms to detect changes in sensitive ecosystem within active and post mining landscapes. This project will develop a 4D (space and time) data visualisation tool to facilitate quick and holistic review of the functioning of the ecosystem elements exposed to potential mining impacts.
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a specialization in rural-urban transformations in the Global South
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
A tenure track in human geography with a specialization in development and rural-urban transformations in the Global South is open at the Section for Geography, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The successful candidate will be attached to the research group Environment and Society in Developing Countries.
Research Associate on Costs of Hydropower Development
Michigan State University
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Saturday, July 1, 2017
The Department of Community Sustainability and the Center for Global Change and Earth Observation at Michigan State University is searching for a full-time Research Associate to be a part of a four-year NSF-funded grant that is developing new ways to reduce the social, economic and environmental costs of hydropower development.
Postdocs in land-use change modelling and ecosystem/biodiversity modelling
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Alpin (IMK-IFU)
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Friday, June 30, 2017
The Helmholtz Association is providing long-term investment for a Research Group on Land Use Change at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s Campus Alpin (IMK-IFU) located in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The Research Group aims to advance knowledge of the causes and consequences of change in socio-ecological systems from local to global scales and is currently recruiting two postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoc in quantitative global scale analysis of resource-use driven human-environmental feedbacks
UFZ Leipzig
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Monday, June 12, 2017
UFZ Leipzig seeks a motivated, innovative, broadly thinking scholar whose research focus is on the quantitative analysis of resource-use driven human-environmental feedbacks on the global scale with sound underpinning through regional case studies. Research areas could include natural resource management, including questions surrounding biodiversity conservation, water, forests, energy, etc.), food systems, food security, subsistence and livelihoods, socio-economic material and energy flows; tele-connections in the global land system.
Socio-anthropological Field Researcher (Consultancy)
Rainforest Foundation UK
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Friday, June 9, 2017
This research aims to observe and document local social and institutional practices and processes relating to the establishment of community forests, and from this to capture learnings and propose best practices and effective methodologies and tools for use in RFUK’s community forests project in DRC.
Doctoral fellowships in land governance
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
iDiv, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, invites applications to 10 PhD positions for candidates having a strong background in biodiversity research and deep interest in interdisciplinary studies.
Postdoc in international environmental policy and multiple values of ecosystems and biodiversity
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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Monday, May 15, 2017
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) offers one Postdoctoral position for a candidate who would like to pursue a career in international environmental policy and the multiple values of ecosystems and biodiversity.
Postdoc in remote sensing to identify uncontested lands for conservation
The University of Queensland
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Friday, April 28, 2017
The candidate will apply novel remote sensing techniques for large area – long time series data, as well as economics and social metrics, to detect uncontested lands. Then look at prioritising uncontested lands for conservation based on estimates of ecological restoration and costs.
Postdoc on farmer organisations and the resilience and sustainability of small farms
University of Sussex
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship to work on an interdisciplinary project entitled “Farmer organisations and the resilience and sustainability of small farms”. The project will investigate the viability and potential of farmer organisations as ways to promote sustainable practices for, and build the resilience of small farm-based commercial enterprises in a context of rural—urban and international migration, agricultural feminisation, and the aspirations of rural youth.
PhD field scholarships: Evaluating Subnational REDD+ Programs
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
CIFOR is seeking eight PhD scholars to engage in an international network of researchers to focus on evaluating the impacts of subnational REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries) initiatives in Brazil, Peru and Indonesia.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Human Dimensions of Coupled Natural-Human Systems
University of Arizona
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Monday, April 10, 2017
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona seeks outstanding applicants for a tenure-eligible position emphasizing the human dimension and decision making of coupled natural-human systems.
Postdoc in statistical modeling of land use
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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Friday, April 7, 2017
The Integrated Assessment Modeling group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, seeks a postdoctoral researcher in spatial modeling of land use change to develop and apply models at the US and global scale with a focus on agriculture.
Professor in Remote Sensing of the Environment
University of Copenhagen
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
A professorship in Remote Sensing of the Environment is open at the Section for Geography, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Research Coordinator at IFPRI Africa
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Friday, March 31, 2017
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified Research Coordinator I for the West and Central Africa Office for a two-year, fixed-term appointment. This position will be based in Dakar, Senegal.
PhD positions on human-wildlife conflicts in ag landscapes
Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
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Friday, March 31, 2017
In the framework of the "Biodiversity, Ecology and Management in National Parks and Biosphere Reserves" BEN-program which is funded by the Marianne and Dr. Fritz Walter Fischer foundation, a junior research group will be established at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research to addresses "Human-wildlife conflicts in agricultural landscapes of UNESCO-Biosphere Reserves".
Postdoc in carbon cycle science
Michigan State University
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Friday, March 31, 2017
The Michigan State University Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and Center for Global Change and Earth Observation (CGCEO) are pleased to announce a postdoctoral position in Socioecological carbon production in managed agricultural-forest landscapes.
Postdoc: Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture in Europe
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
The postdoc is appointed within the FACCE-JPI (NWO) funded project VITAL (www.vital.environmentalgeography.nl). VITAL explores how land use and agricultural systems can become more sustainable while allowing high production, i.e. sustainable intensification.
Professor of Spatial Development
ETH Zurich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Professor of Spatial Development The Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering (www.baug.ethz.ch) of ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned position at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (www.irl.ethz.ch).
Tenure-track position in Community and Cultural Heritage Planning
University of Waterloo
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
The School of Planning at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a tenure-track position in planning, specializing in research at the interface of community/population change, cultural heritage and planning.
Tenure-track position in Environmental Planning, Policy, and Design
University of Waterloo
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
The School of Planning at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a tenure-track position in planning, specializing in environmental planning, policy, and design.
Post-doctoral fellow: Sustainable development in the Global South
KU Leuven
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
The KU Leuven in the Netherlands is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to support education, research and management activities during the five-year programme “Master of Science in Sustainable Development” funded by the VLIR-UOS (2017-2021). Application deadline is the 2nd of March 2017.
Future Earth vacancy: Executive Director
Future Earth
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Friday, February 3, 2017
Future Earth is a major international research programme for global sustainability, looking for an outstanding Executive Director to provide strong leadership and guide the implementation of Future Earth’s broad and ambitious vision and scientific strategy. The successful candidate will be effective in further raising the visibility and value of Future Earth, and attracting funding for this implementation.
Graduate positions in Socioecological carbon production
Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and Center for Global Change and Earth Observation (CGCEO)
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Michigan State University invites applications for two graduate student positions in Socioecological carbon production in managed agricultural-forest landscapes - Deadline 1 February 2017
Assistant Professor, Forest Modeling and Analytics at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation (FREC)
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation (FREC) at Virginia Tech is seeking applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track research and teaching position in Forest Modeling and Analytics.
Five post-docs available in land-use change and socio-ecological systems
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Alpin (IMK-IFU)
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Friday, December 16, 2016
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 (http://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu/institute.php).
Open position @ Nature Research: Associate Editor, Social Sciences, Nature Plants
Nature Research
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Open Position: Nature Research, Associate Editor, Social Sciences, Department "Nature Plants" close date: 11 Dec 2016
Assistant Professor, Geospatial Analysis of Environment and Society
Utah State University
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Monday, December 5, 2016
The Department of Environment and Society (EnvS) at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor with expertise in geo-informatics and geospatial modeling of social-environmental systems.
3 funded PhD positions in forest degradation in South American Chaco
multiple (see announcement)
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
We would like to draw your attention to three fully-funded 4-yr PhD positions that are open for applications as part of an international research project focusing on “Continuous satellite-based indicators for mapping subtropical forest degradation and its environmental impacts (ReForcha)”, funded by the Belgian Science Policy.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program
University of Colorado Boulder
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Monday, October 31, 2016
The Environmental Studies program invites applicants for a junior-level tenure-track position in Natural Resources Policy and Governance, beginning August 21, 2017.
Postdoctoral scholar for interdisciplinary NSF-funded project
Department of Environmental Studies, Santa Clara University
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Monday, October 31, 2016
The Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University, invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral scholar position for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project.