How do policies for the promotion of bio-economies foster inclusive, pluralistic, integrative and adaptive governance arrangements in the Brazilian Amazon? Transforming governance of resource
use in the Brazilian Amazon is crucial to prevent global biodiversity loss, to help mitigate climate change, and to empower marginalized groups. To this purpose, diverse indigenous and international development organizations, together with stakeholders from
the business community currently experiment with so-called 'socio-biodiversity value-chains'. These initiatives aim to create markets for local products from the Amazonian biodiversity, and so provide stable incomes to local people without relying on export
oriented commodity production, like cultivation of soya, timber and cattle grazing. Building on both local ecological knowledge and solidarity, their goal is both protection of the environment and meaningful participation of local people in resource governance.
This research project studies initiatives that promote socio-biodiversity value-chains and investigates their transformative potential. The focus will be in the Rio Negro basin in the Brazilian Amazon.
As a PhD Candidate on the 'Boosting bio-economies' project, you will aim to answer this question, and you will use the results to write your PhD thesis. The purpose is to better understand the opportunities and challenges, and to what extent mobilizations around
socio-biodiveristy value chains result in Amazon governance that is more respectful both to the environment and indigenous peoples' ways of knowing and being.
Your teaching load may be up to 10 percent of your working time.
We are
The
Nijmegen
School of Management enables students, institutions and companies, societal actors and governments to play their part in a transformation towards sustainable societies. In doing so, it is committed to Radboud University's mission of contributing to a healthy,
free world with equal opportunities for all. In the context of our 'Responsible governance for sustainable societies' mission, we address scientific and societal challenges from a good governance perspective. Our work focuses on the topics Beyond Economy,
Climate, Inclusivity, Safety, and Democracy. By building, questioning and extending the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), we acknowledge their interrelatedness and focus on a number of grand challenges within society. We contribute to
innovation and sustainable growth on topics such as inequality, gender, decent work and poverty. Furthermore, we address environmental and climate challenges, seeking to contribute towards resolving them.
At the Nijmegen School of Management, academic research and teaching are carried out in challenging educational programmes. These programmes are offered in the areas of Business Administration; Economics and Business Economics; Geography, Planning and Environment;
Political Science; and Public Administration. Academic research takes place within the
Institute
for Management Research (IMR). Research is carried out within the above-mentioned domains and in interdisciplinary research groups: the
Hotspots.
The Nijmegen School of Management currently has 400 staff and some 5,000 students.
The position is for 4 years and involves mainly research. You will be part of the teams of both the Department of
Geography,
Planning and Environment and the Department of
Political
Science (more particularly the
Centre
of International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM)). Furthermore, you will be a member of the Doctoral School of the Institute for Management Research (IMR).
Radboud University
We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This
is what unites the more than 24,000 students and 5,600 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!
Additional employment conditions
Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary
employment
conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange
income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various
training and development schemes.
Would you like more information?
For questions about the position, please contact Cristina Inoue, Associate Professor, at
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Practical information and applying
You can apply until 29 January 2023, exclusively using the button below. Kindly address your application to Cristina Inoue. Please fill in the application form and attach the following documents:
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A letter of motivation.
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Your CV.
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A writing sample such as a chapter from your Master's thesis or a forthcoming or published paper.
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A proposal of two A4 pages maximum (Times New Roman 12, 1.5 spaced) setting out your ideas and the kind of empirical approach you would want to undertake.
The first round of interviews will take place on Friday 17 February, via Zoom. The second round of interviews will take place on Friday 3 March. You would preferably begin employment on 1 May
2023.
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