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Assistant Professor of Earth System Science

Clark University

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The Graduate School of Geography at Clark University invites applications for a tenure track, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science to join their internationally recognized program in Geography. The position begins August 2021. Deadline to apply is 29 January 2021.

Assistant Professor in Geodata and Earth Observation

University of Bern

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The Institute of Geography (www.giub.unibe.ch GIUB) at the Faculty of Science of the University of Bern invites applications for a professorship in Geodata and Earth Observation starting August 2022. Deadline to apply is 1 December 2020.

Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Program Now Accepting Applications for 2021

Columbia University

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The Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Program in Sustainable Development is now seeking applications from innovative doctoral candidates or recent Ph.D., M.D., J.D. or Sc.D. recipients (within 5 years of degree receipt) who are interested in a broad range of issues in sustainable development to join its fall 2021 cohort. The Institute is especially interested in qualified candidates from historically underrepresented groups for its Diversity Fellowships.

Assistant Professor in Environmental Data Science

University of California, Santa Barbara

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The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (www.bren.ucsb.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Environmental Data Science at the rank of Assistant Professor, to start July 1, 2021. Apply by 26 October to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Assistant Professor Environmental and Sustainability Governance

Utrecht University

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Utrecht University has opened a new faculty position at Assistant Professor level (tenure track) in the field of environmental and sustainability governance. Deadline to apply is 23 October.

Assistant Professor in Sustainability and Complex Adaptive Systems

University of Twente

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The Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainable Development (CSTM), University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands, invites applications for an Assistant Professor to join the thematic group on Social Complexity of Climate Change and be embedded within Resilience Research Program of the Behavioural, Management and Social sciences Faculty. Deadline: 16 October 2020.

Post-doc and PhD position on the history of Soviet glaciology in Central Asia

University of Fribourg

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Four-year positions on the history of Soviet glaciology in Central Asia at the Department of Geosciences, Geography Unit, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. These positions are part of a Swiss National Science Foundation grant titled “Timescapes of ice: Soviet glacier science in Central Asia, 1950s-1980s”.

Open-rank Professorship in Political Economy

Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern

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Integrated in the Wyss Academy, the successful candidate will lead a research group contributing to the overarching objective of providing actionable solutions and policies for sustainable livelihoods and the preservation of nature in the Wyss Academy’s Regional Stewardship Hubs. The group will study mechanisms for transformation through behavioral, market-driven and institutional adjustments. This includes integrating various concepts of the valuation of nature and political economy perspectives such as studying how trade and market integration at national and global levels can meet sustainability objectives.

Open-rank Professorship in Governance Innovation

Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern

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This professorship concentrates on the analysis of complex human-environmental systems with focus on the potential for innovative governance solutions in the Wyss Academy’s Regional Stewardship Hubs. It studies the role of the state and its interplay with other public and private stakeholders to affect the behavior of key agents of change from global to local levels. Integrated in the Wyss Academy, the professorship will advance the understanding of cross-sectoral and multi-level decision-making, and explore pathways toward coping with power disparities, technical, ecological and social changes.

Open-rank Professorship in ICT for Nature and People

Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern

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This professorship with the Wyss Academy for Nature will develop and deploy ICT innovations to sense, transfer, store, process, and analyze data efficiently, securely, timely, and reliably for understanding and shaping human-environment dynamics in in the Wyss Academy’s Regional Stewardship Hubs. Examples might be mobile applications, remote sensing, machine learning, natural language processing, or distributed ledger technologies. The professorship will advance the development and application of ICT for increasing transparency, efficiency, participation, and accountability in the co-design of transformative pathways for nature and people between stakeholders from different sectors, places, and scales.

3 Postdoctoral Research Associates

University of Cambridge

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The Department of Sociology in the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint 3 full-time Postdoctoral Research Associates to join the 5-year ERC-funded project, Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies, led by PI Professor Jennifer Gabrys. Deadline to apply is 11 October.

Science Lead for the Earth Commission Secretariat

Future Earth

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Future Earth is looking for a scientist to drive the scientific synthesis of the Earth Commission, hosted by Future Earth at its Global Hub in Stockholm, Sweden. Deadline 9 October.

Two Postdoctoral researcher position, for 1.5 years, on remote sensing mapping and analyzing land use and labor dynamics in smallholders and large-scale farming in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Two research positions are open at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) to improve the understanding of farm, land use and labor dynamics in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), to develop land governance strategies that foster sustainable land use in emerging frontiers.

Program Manager, Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative

Yale University

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Yale School of the Environment is seeking a program manager. Deadline: until suitable applicant is found

Executive Director

The Christensen Fund

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This is an exceptional opportunity to lead The Christensen Fund, a foundation at the forefront of supporting and elevating the rights of Indigenous Peoples around the world.