Dear colleagues,
the Cluster of Excellence “Future Forests – Adapting complex social-ecological forest systems to global change” of the University of Freiburg (Germany) invites applications for a broad set of PhD and Post-Doc positions. We would like to draw your attention in particular to the doctoral positions in the ethnographic-social science field of “Decision-making practices”:
- Decision-making practices in the case of anticipated disturbances: following institutionalized structures in forest Social-Ecological Systems governance (Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, Sylvia Kruse)
- Diversity in human nature relationships – adaptation potentials for disputed forest futures (will be published soon at Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Stephanie Bethmann)
- Knowledge Barriers – Knowledge Practices: Making Contested Decisions in Everyday Work of Forest Management (Institute of Cultural Analysis/European Ethnology, Sarah May)
- Imagining Future Forests: Decision-Making Practices in the Introduction of Contested Tree Species (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Michaela Haug)
- Winds of Change. Investigating the SES-planning interface by using the example of wind energy in forests (Chair of Environmental Planning and Transformation, Tanja Mölders)
Further job vacancies within the cluster are published on the university’s webpage and on LinkedIn.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the cluster, projects, or applications (please see the links above for relevant contact details).
Best wishes,
Stephanie Bethmann, Michaela Haug, Sylvia Kruse, Sarah May and Tanja Mölders