The Public Administration and Policy group at Wageningen
University is urgently looking for a postdoc to carry out research in the ESPA
project “Adaptive governance of mountain ecosystem services for poverty
alleviation enabled by environmental virtual observatories (MOUNTAIN-EVO)”. We
are looking for a social science researcher in this cross-disciplinary project
with Imperial College London and the University of Birmingham. This position involves
working with local researchers in mountain regions in Peru, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan
and Nepal and synthesizing the social science insights on the potential of
participatory monitoring, knowledge co-generation and environmental virtual
observatories for adaptive governance of water-related ecosystem services in these mountain
regions. The project will be under supervision of dr. Art Dewulf and prof.
Katrien Termeer of the Public Administration and Policy group. For more
information on the MOUNTAIN-EVO project, see http://artdewulf.blogspot.nl/2013/04/adaptive-governance-of-mountain.html
or http://paramo.cc.ic.ac.uk/espa/.
We are looking for ambitious and enthusiastic scientist,
with a PhD in a relevant social scientific discipline and with
cross-disciplinary research skills.
The ideal candidate:
• has a PhD in the field of public administration,
political science, development studies, environmental studies or other relevant
social-science discipline
• is familiar with the literature on ecosystem services,
adaptive governance and poverty alleviation
• has experience with doing research in the global South
and is prepared to travel to the different case study areas for fieldwork
• has published internationally in refereed scientific
journals
• is able to write scientific articles and reports, to
which many researchers contribute
• has excellent communication and writing skills in
English (knowledge of Dutch or Spanish is an advantage)
We offer a full time postdoc position based at Wageningen
University, for 30 months (2.5 years) with an intended starting date of 1 May or 1 June 2014. For more information or to apply, contact art . dewulf @ wur . nl (without the spaces) as soon as possible.
