Jobs & Appointments

two 2- year postdoc or researcher positions are available at the Stockholm Resilience Centre for modeling poverty traps and cross-scale interactions in social-ecological systems. We are seeking candidates with backgrounds in dynamical systems theory, complexity theory or related fields and interest in the dynamics of social-ecological systems, particularly in the context of natural resource management in fisheries and agriculture. For details, please see […]

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 […]

The project will be carried out at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany and includes a 3-months research visit at the James Cook University, Australia Supervision by Volker Grimm, Ralf Seppelt, Graeme Cummings, Kathleen Hermans. Details: Deadline for application: 31 October 2016 Contact: Volker Grimm, Leipzig

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 […]

Position Description: The Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track/tenured position at the assistant, associate or professor level, commencing autumn semester 2017. We are looking for a scholar whose research and teaching focus on how culture and institutions shape the resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems. We are particularly interested in scholars who combine evolutionary […]

The Department of Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Potsdam is currently advertising fully funded PostDoc positions (3 years) in modelling in biodiversity research: - 1 PostDoc: Spatially-explicit modeling of rapid transitions in community dynamics - 1 PostDoc: Modelling the resilience of coupled plant-soil community dynamics Deadline for application: Jan 27 !!

The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take a leadership role in the modeling interacting networks of water, power and roads to evaluate the resilience of coupled infrastructure systems. The position is part of an innovative NSF-funded project on Resilience Simulation for Water, Power & Road Networks. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research program within the broad aims of the […]

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Agricultural Research Station, through the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, invites applications for a 18 month-2-year post-doctoral appointment as part of the Center for Resilient Landscapes collaboration with the USDA Forest Service (USDA-FS), beginning as soon as February 2015. The appointee will work on developing an applied socio-ecological simulation model of governance and ecological processes to […]

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 […]

The successful candidate will work in one or more of the following areas: text analysis and text mining, social data collection, social and spatial analysis, and/or the development of social-ecological models. The successful candidate will work as a member of a team of interdisciplinary scientists in support of a collaborative NSF-funded study involving researchers at University of Idaho, University of Chicago, University College London, and University of New Hampshire. The study attempts […]