PhD in Environmental Justice and Sociobioeconomies in Brazil’s Cerrado University of Amsterdam in Netherlands

Leiden University is recruiting a PhD candidate for the research project Entangled with Seaweed , focusing on the economization of seaweed and blue economy strategies in South Africa. The project examines how seaweed-related development affects coastal communities, especially in contexts shaped by colonial and apartheid legacies and unequal access to coastal areas. The PhD researcher will be based at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behaviou...

Funded PhD opportunity in Geography at Texas A&M University focused on environmental justice , environmental change , community resilience , and the social impacts of environmental crises and degradation. The project is part of a $4.7M foundation-funded initiative supporting a center of excellence for humanities-based and community-engaged research on environmental change and Latinx communities. The doctoral researcher will contribute to grant activities while developing an original dissertation...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam on Groundwater Care and the Politics of Transformation , focused on India and grounded in political ecology , development studies , environmental humanities , human geography , anthropology , and hydrogeology . The project examines how individuals and communities in India care for, protect, rejuvenate, and recharge the groundwater they rely on for irrigating crops. It is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project Aquiverse , which studies groundwater care ...

Utrecht University is advertising a fully funded PhD in co-production of land use futures for Brazil , based in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning within the Faculty of Geosciences . The project focuses on the MATOPIBA region in the Brazilian Cerrado , a landscape of major agricultural importance and high biodiversity value. The research asks how future land use strategies can balance agricultural production , biodiversity conservation , social justice , and climate resilienc...

Utrecht University is advertising a postdoctoral position in co-creating shared narratives for sustainable sediment management within the Faculty of Geosciences , Department of Physical Geography, in the Netherlands. The post is part of the WadSED project , which focuses on the Wadden Sea and the Ems-Dollard and Western Scheldt estuaries. The research addresses urgent challenges in coastal and estuarine management, including dredging costs, biodiversity decline, sea-level rise, and sediment surp...