Fwd: Adaptation to a new economic reality - training for 12 PhD students

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there will be some new PhDs on alternative economies, coming out soon,

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From: Naděžda Johanisová <joha...@fss.muni.cz>
Date: Sun, May 17, 2015 at 7:40 PM
Subject: Fwd: Adaptation to a new economic reality - training for 12 PhD students
To: Christos Zografos <czog...@gmail.com>, Georgios Kallis <giorgo...@gmail.com>, Francois Schneider <degr...@gmail.com>, "Spash, Clive L." <Clive...@wu.ac.at>, Christian Kerschner <christian...@gmail.com>


Hi Christos, Giorgos, Christian, Francois, Clive,

I thought some of your students or friends might be interested  in this PhD training possibility. I can send you the official advert if you like later, or you or students can contact Kristin directly....

all best,

Nadia



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From: Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir <va...@hi.is>
Date: 2015-05-17 18:54 GMT+02:00
Subject: [Balaton-disc] AdaptEconII - training for 12 PhD students
To: Balaton Group <Balato...@balatongroup.org>


Dear colleagues,

This week I learned that we have won a PhD training grand from the European Commission to train 12 PhD students in:

Adaptation to a New Economic Reality (AdaptEcon) - with focus on biophysical economics - linking resources to the world economic system - and building on the WORLD systems
model that Harald has been building with colleagues.  If you know anyone with a completed master´s degrees (and it can be one of you!) and are interested in these issues,  get in touch.  The grant agreement is now signed yet, but we anticipate a contract in house by August and starting in the autumn (fall).

I will send out an official advert in a month or so, but this is to let people know about a new opportunity.  We need be best students on board that are willing to
think about of the box, learn systems analysis and systems dynamics, learn alternative economics along with conventional economics.  All backgrounds will be considered
once we look through the applicants.  Below is an abstract:

The present economic model of permanent growth is unstable and leads to cycles of growth, peaks and crashes.  We propose to contribute to developing new economic thinking based on knowledge of global resource availability. The Adaptation to a New Economic Reality (AdaptEconII) project is divided into three parts:  1. Sustainable resource management; 2. Integrated economic systems assessment; and 3. Integrating society and economics.  These components will be combined to form an overarching economic model built on socio-environmental-technical (SET) system analysis of causal links and feedback structures and system dynamics.  A simple prototype of such a model (WORLD) has already been built by the applicants and tested on historical data.  Twelve Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will be trained to obtain European Joint Doctorates at three universities: University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland), Stockholm University (Sweden) and Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France). The ESRs will have secondments in research institutes/NGOs/SMEs in Germany (GWS and Wuppertal Institute), UK (New Economics Foundation and Schumacher Institute) and Sweden (Swedish National Defense College).  All of the ESRs will have a career plan and be trained in system analysis and system dynamics in addition to conventional and biophysical economic paradigms. They will be presented with aspects of resource availability, links between resources and wealth, the rise of new and/or rediscovered values and realization of our interdependent world, new development paradigms, political and industrial ecology, as well as science for sustainable society and transferable skills.  AdaptEconII will train ESRs in new economic thinking and the goal is for them be at the forefront of innovative economic thinking in the EU and the world.

If you or your students send me an email, please put AdaptEcon into the subject line of the email.

With my best wishes,

Vala



Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir
Professor of Sustainability Science
Institutes of Earth Sciences and Sustainable Development Studies
University of Iceland
Askja
Reykjavik 101
Iceland
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+354 894 9502 (mobile Iceland)


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Nadia Johanisova, PhD
Dpt. of Environmental Studies
Faculty of Social Studies
Masaryk University
Jostova 10
602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
tel. 00 420 549 49 3005
Home address: Drozdí 7, 621 00 Brno-Ořešín, tel. 00 420 541 211 141


Recent publications:


Johanisova, N., R.S. Padilla, P. Parry (2014): Co-operatives, p. 152-155 in: d´Alisa, G., F. Demaria, G.Kallis:  Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era. Routledge, London

Johanisová, N. (2014): Ekologická ekonomie: vybrané kapitoly. Masarykova Univerzita, Brno. Ke stažení: http://bit.ly/kniha_ekologicka_ekonomie





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