The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) with its 1,100 employees has gained an excellent reputation as an international competence centre for environmental sciences. We are part of the largest scientific organisation in Germany, the Helmholtz association. Our mission: Our research seeks to find a balance between social development and the long-term protection of our natural resources.
The jobThe UFZ will establish a Graduate School within its Research Unit “Environment and Society” on the topic: “Governance Monitor – Tracking and assessing governance narratives for sustainability transformations” The Graduate School consists of four PhD researchers. They will participate in a structured training program that facilitates integration and exchange among the different projects involved as well as within the larger UFZ research context. The PhD projects will develop a scientific basis for the comprehensive, long-term monitoring of political developments related to complex environmental issues, including the governance of bioeconomy, chemicals in the circular economy, and climate extremes. The advertised position is part of this Graduate School.
Your tasksIndicators play a key role in deciding how we view the successes and failures of governance strategies, and in this regard, the successful candidate will track the diverse narratives in Germany and in Europe regarding the establishment of national and regional monitoring systems for the bioeconomy. This work will identify the indicator sets that further align the current state-of-the-art life cycle assessment tools with the future information demand of bioeconomy monitoring systems. To meet these objectives, the successful candidate will:
The work will be supervised by Prof. Alberto Bezama as first UFZ and University supervisor, as well as by Prof. Sina Leipold, Dr. Christian Dusny and MSc Walther Zeug as second UFZ supervisors.
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