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We are excited to advertise two PhD positions in our new interdisciplinary project entitled “ETH-Coffee – Towards a sustainable bioeconomy: a scenario analysis for the Jimma coffee landscape in Ethiopia”. The project will analyze the flow of ecosystem services in the rural landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia under different future scenarios. Specifically, the project will quantify both local and distant benefits generated by ecosystem services; it will identify who benefits from these different services; their impacts on biodiversity conservation; and will examine which stakeholders have an interest in and influence on different ecosystem services. The PhD positions will be based at Leuphana (in Germany), with fieldwork in Ethiopia. PhD 1: Ecology and biodiversity conservation Tasks and responsibilities for this PhD position will include: (1) The generation of spatially explicit maps of land use, for four pre-existing socio-economic land use scenarios; (2) Biodiversity modelling based on the results of the scenario land use maps; (3) Natural capital mapping and conservation planning using the INVEST program. Full details and instructions for how to apply are available here: https://www.leuphana.de/news/jobs-und-karriere/forschung-lehre/ansicht-forschung-lehre/datum/2019/07/24/research-associatephd1.html PhD 2: Flows of ecosystem services Tasks and responsibilities for this PhD position will include: (1) Spatially explicit identification of ecosystem service beneficiaries; (2) Spatial modelling of value flows resulting from four pre-existing socio-economic land use scenarios; (3) Disaggregation of (telecoupled) ecosystem service benefits. Full details and instructions for how to apply are available here: https://www.leuphana.de/news/jobs-und-karriere/forschung-lehre/ansicht-forschung-lehre/datum/2019/07/24/research-associatephd2.html -------- Prof. Dr. Dave Abson Faculty of sustainability Universitätsallee.1 C11.303 21335 Lüneburg Germany Tel. +49.4131.677-2539 http://leveragepoints2019.leuphana.de/ www.leveragepoints.org Google Scholar researchgate University of the Year for Student Experience The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 1st for Overseas Student Experiences based on student trips abroad - HESA 2016/17 UK, published 2018 2nd for Teaching Excellence Times Higher Education UK metrics ranking 2017 15th in Guardian University Guide 2020 of 121 UK institutions ranked