<div dir="ltr">Date for applications extended. Apologies for cross-posting. <div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Celso von Randow</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cvrandow@gmail.com">cvrandow@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 8:13 PM<br>Subject: Postdoc opportunity - Participatory scenarios of sustainability in Brazil<br>To: <<a href="mailto:es_jobs_net@mailman.ucar.edu">es_jobs_net@mailman.ucar.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><b>Postdoctoral fellowship announcement - Environmental Sciences/Earth System Science</b><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(26,26,26);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A postdoctoral fellowship is offered at the Brazilian National Institute
for Space Research (INPE), São Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil, to analyze social
dynamics and conduct participatory processes to build plausible and desirable
scenarios and indicators, conceived from the perspective of a “vision of a
sustainable future” and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the
Brazilian Caatinga and Cerrado biomes, as part of the Nexus project “</span><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(26,26,26);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Transition to
sustainability and the water-agriculture-energy nexus: exploring an integrative
approach Cerrado e Caatinga biomes study cases” </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (</span><a href="http://nexus.ccst.inpe.br" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://nexus.ccst.inpe.br</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">). The selected candidate will have a central role
in this integrative and interdisciplinary project, involving several research
centers and universities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Activities include
literature review, followed by field study to identify: important actors and
conflicts in the water-agriculture-energy nexus, power relations and possible
limits on participation in different contexts and geographical scales. These,
later, will subsidize the realization of workshops of scenarios and
participatory indicators on multiple scales.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(26,26,26);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We seek professionals with a doctorate degree and knowledge in Social
Sciences / Human Ecology or related areas, fundamentally valuing previous
experience with participatory approaches, analysis of socio-environmental
dynamics and/or construction of scenarios in socio-ecological systems. The
opportunity is open to citizens of all nationalities, with a doctoral degree
obtained less than 7 years ago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(26,26,26);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Scholarship: post-doctorate FAPESP with
a monthly amount of R $ 7,373.10 for 24 months</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">More information on FAPESP standards: </span><a href="http://www.fapesp.br/en/5427" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif">http://www.fapesp.br/en/5427</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">; </span><a href="http://www.fapesp.br/en/5100" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif">http://www.fapesp.br/en/5100</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Requirements:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences or interdisciplinary</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Fluency in Portuguese and English</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Demonstrated ability to publish scientific articles</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Previous experience with participatory approaches and ethnography</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Desirable</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Experience with analysis or construction of scenarios in
socio-ecological systems;</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Analysis of social networks.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">- Knowledge about the Brazilian semiarid region </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Application: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">send until <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">March 08, 2020, </b>e-mail with the title "PD FAPESP
NEXUS" to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS,serif"><a href="mailto:nexus.cocst@inpe.br" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">nexus.cocst@inpe.br</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">,
with the following documents attached in PDF format:<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">1) short presentation letter, describing
qualifications and scientific interests <br>
2) short CV <br>
3) indication of 2 names for personal references <br>
4) link for personal profiles in Research Gate, Google Scholar or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif">Academia.edu<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">, if available
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