Stillingstittel:
Doctoral Fellowship in International Environment and Development Studies - The Green Economy in India - Ref.no. 16/00926

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

 

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

 

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Jobbnorge ID: 122245

The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) invites applications for a doctoral fellowship in International Environment and Development Studies. The selected candidate is expected to start the doctoral studies in August/September 2016.

 

As a department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the NMBU, Noragric is engaged in education, research, institutional collaboration and assignments within international environment and development studies. The Department has a PhD programme in International Environment and Development Studies, three Master's programmes and a Bachelor's programme. The Department has ca 35 Doctoral candidates and 450 students. Research at Noragric is organised within four research clusters: Climate Change, Agriculture and Development; Conflict, Human Security and Development; Environmental Governance; and Rights and Power in Development.

For further information regarding Noragric' s thematic areas and ongoing research programmes, please visit: http://www.nmbu.no/noragric/.

 

 

The Research

The Department hereby invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at investigating the practical implications of a shift to a green(er) economy in India. The position will be linked to a new project titled 'Greenmentality: A Political Ecology of the Green Economy in the Global South', which is funded by the Research Council of Norway and NMBU.

 

 

General information about the overall Research Project: What type of governance does the unfolding green economy lead to in the Global South? How does it influence rural production systems and how do rural people respond to its implementation? These are the main questions that this research project will investigate through detailed empirical fieldwork in a selection of cases in East Africa and India. The project will combine the notion of 'governmentality' with theories of resistance, social agency and critical institutionalism. Specifically, the project will examine governmentalities and their reactions 'from below' in three main land-uses (ecotourism, carbon forestry and climate-smart agriculture), which have been highlighted by various policy and strategy papers on the green economy in a developing context. Please see the Project Webpage for more information.

 

 

Main tasks

The Department's PhD programme consists of mandatory and elective courses with oral and written examinations and a major research component. The applicant is advised to visit the website f

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Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

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