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Fully funded 3-year position for a doctoral researcher

Jobs - Deadline : 05/15/2018

04/12/2018

Team IPPA

Subtitle : Leuphana University of Lüeneburg

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Doctoral Researcher on Governance institutions for sustainability in globally telecoupled systems

 

Globally telecoupled systems such as commodity chains or long-range pollution present complex new challenges for sustainability and global environmental governance. These are often beyond the capabilities of individual states and even multilateral institutions to regulate. At the same time, the policy and governance interventions of governments and other actors themselves often have unforeseen consequences and knock-on effects.

 

Taking European Union (EU) environmental policy as its primary vantage point, this research will: 

- identify key institutions, networks of actors and instruments deployed to govern for sustainability in specific case studies of telecoupled systems (e.g. global trade and supply chains and networks)

- assess their impacts with particular attention to so-called ‘policy-driven displacement’ effects, policy spillovers and feed-backs (e.g. increased deforestation resulting from EU biofuels policy)

- identify governance levers for effective intervention at multiple levels and among different actors (e.g. governmental, private sector, civil society) to address policy-driven displacement effects.

- conduct interviews and documentary research to chart networks and key actors and structures associated with EU efforts to govern for sustainability in telecoupled systems (focusing on certain specific cases such as agricultural commodity chains or raw resource flows)

- analyse and assess the effectiveness of different governance arrangements

- propose potential policy and governance interventions for increased sustainability in telecoupled systems.

 

The ESR will be jointly supervised by Prof. Jens Newig, Dr. Edward Challies and Prof. Patrick Meyfroidt (Earth and Life Institute, Catholic University of Leuven). Potential secondment placements include the German Federal Environmental Ministry in Berlin (Germany) and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

 

Applications including a letter of motivation, full CV, a draft proposal, relevant certificates/transcripts and contact details for two references shall be submitted via http://coupled-itn.eu/recruitment/.
Application deadline: 15 May 2018.

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