Post Doctoral Research Opportunity: Belt and Road Initiative and Biodiversity
Gallagher, Kevin
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Boston University
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) seeks a post-doctoral fellow for a research project on the implications of Chinese foreign investment on global biodiversity, land use change, and indigenous people landscapes.
Successful candidates will come to Boston University for all or part of the 2020/21 academic year to engage with this project and pursue their own related research agenda.
Candidates should have a solid understanding of biodiversity and ecological conservation issues and regimes and be able to demonstrate competency in:
1. Open-source spatial data processing and visualization (R, Python & QGIS)
2. Ecosystem service mapping (InVEST)
The following skills are also a plus:
3. Simulating policy instruments (Python)
4. Rigorous conservation impact evaluation skills (R, STATA, Matching)
5. Knowledge or interest in Chinese policy and language
Applications are due on January 20, 2020. Please send a CV and contact information for references to Kevin P. Gallagher (k...@bu.edu)
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Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 12:23 PM
To: gep-ed <gep...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Alice Cohen <alice...@acadiau.ca>
Subject: Re: [gep-ed] CfP Dimensions of Political Ecology 2020: citizen science
Dear GEP-ed colleagues,
Please see the call for papers below for a panel on citizen at the Dimensions of Political Ecology conference, planned for Feb 27-29, 2020, at the University of Kentucky (conference details here: https://www.politicalecology.org/).
Submissions for the panel, along with any questions, can be directed to Alice Cohen: alice...@acadiau.ca.
There's a tight submission deadline -- conference participants must register for the conference by Dec 1, so Alice will confirm the panel by the end of next week.
Thanks and all the best,
Kate
Political Ecologies of Citizen Science (please see https://www.politicalecology.org/single-post/2019/10/29/Political-Ecologies-of-Citizen-Science for an electronic CfP):
This session explores the political ecologies of citizen science, or community-based monitoring (CBM). Citizen science and CBM programs are increasingly popular models of environmental governance around the world and have been used to monitor a range of systems, including forests, water, fish, and climate. Accordingly, a handful of review papers have sought to highlight the various benefits, challenges, and governance models associated with their uptake (see, for example, Bonney et al 2014; Carlson and Cohen 2018; Conrad and Hilchey 2011; Kosmala et al 2016; Whitelaw 2003). While these reviews have been pragmatic in their recommendations and in supporting scholars and practitioners in implementing and understanding the possible forms of CBM, they have largely been silent on the power structures implicit in these management and governance models. Moreover, they say little on the ontological underpinnings of such systems, and often posit ‘science’ – homogenous, hegemonic, and apolitical – as the common language spoken by community members and policy makers. The literature on citizen science and CBM often presents the desired end goal as data sharing for policy making. This session problematizes these assumptions, and queries the social, political, and ecological implications of this ascendant model of resource governance.
To that end, this session seeks papers that explore the political ecologies of citizen science and CBM. We are especially interested in theoretical or case-study based papers that examine any of the following:
- The funding arrangements (and their implications) for citizen science and CBM;
- Issues around the intellectual property resulting from citizen science;
- The relationship between Indigenous or Traditional Knowledge and citizen science or CBM programs; and
- The science/policy nexus in the context of citizen science or CBM programs.
Interested participants should send a 200-word abstract to Alice Cohen (alice...@acadiau.ca) as soon as possible. Participants must register for the conference by December 1st.
With best wishes,
Alice
Alice Cohen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Science
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