Four new Postdoctoral positions on Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: institutions, people and knowledge
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Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Faculty of Sustainability is advertising four postdoctoral positions.
They will contribute to the transdisciplinary Leverage Points project. Drawing on insights from systems
thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto underrecognized leverage points – system properties where a small shift can lead to fundamental changes in the system as a whole. Leverage Points will focus on changes in relatively intractable, but potentially highly influential, system properties that could help to realign complex social-ecological systems to the normative goals of sustainability.
For details on the project, see www.leveragepoints.org
The deadline for all four positions is 10th March, 2015.
Post Doc 1: RESTRUCTURE: Institutional dynamics in sustainability transformation
This position focuses on processes of institutional change for sustainability, with an empirical focus on restructuring food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). RESTRUCTURE will address dynamics (transformations) in institutional arrangements, and the productive functions of institutional decline in particular. Details and application information available here.
Post Doc 2: RECONNECT: Conceptualising and quantifying human-nature connections
This position focuses on conceptualising and quantifying human-nature connections and how changes in such connections relate to sustainability outcomes, in food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). Details and application information available here.
Post Doc 3: RETHINK: Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use (Germany)
This position focuses on consolidating conceptual foundations related to new forms of knowledge production and use, and will apply these to a transdisciplinary case studies related to food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). This position focuses on the Lower Saxony case, but contributes to the Transylvania case. Details and application information available here.
Post Doc 4: RETHINK: Sustainability-related knowledge creation and use (Romania)
This position focuses on consolidating conceptual foundations related to new forms of knowledge production and use, and will apply these to a transdisciplinary case studies related to food and energy systems in Lower Saxony (DE) and Transylvania (RO). This position focuses on the Lower Saxony case, but contributes to the Transylvania case. This position focuses on the Transylvania case, but contributes to the Lower Saxony case. Details and application information available here.
