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Position Announcements

2021-01-18

Postdoctoral position in modelling forest resources and development pathways // 8 February 2021

Applications are invited for the position of a postdoctoral researcher to participate in the project, 'Toward a future of wood cities and restored forests—modelling pathways for development of a new forest industry in the tropics'. The position is based at Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå and will include close collaboration with The Eco-Innovation Foundation (EIF) based in Stockholm. Our mission is to advance the understanding of forest ecosystem processes and to progress the principles of forest ecosystem management. The Department proposes a novel Wood Building–Forest Restoration system to meet the urgent calls to stop and reverse climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and inequality and instead transition to a fair and sustainable bio-based economy. It calls for future urban growth to be met with modern engineered wood building, and for this new market to drive large-scale forest restoration and emergence of regional forest-based industries. The Department's focus is on the Global South, where the majority of urban growth, deforestation, and forest degradation occur. Starting from today's status (standard concrete building, degraded forests, and small informal wood-processing industries), pathways of coordinated incremental changes across the entire value chain must be modeled to arrive at the desired end state (wood cities, fully restored natural forests, and prosperous regional wood industries).

Institution:  Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Duty station: Umeå, Sweden 
Closing date: 8 February 2021

Details: https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=4399&rmlang=UK

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