Stillingstittel:
PhD-position - Governance structures and institutional conditions for energy transition

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

NTNU - knowledge for a better world

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) creates knowledge for a better world and solutions that can change everyday life.

Jobbnorge ID: 127517

NTNU Sustainability is a targeted research area across the university created in order to focus and develop NTNU's contribution to solving major issues that society is facing, including both national and global challenges where NTNU, with its profile and academic strength, can contribute.

NTNU Sustainability has defined four core focus areas:

1. Institutional framework conditions: the conditions necessary for implementing sustainable policies and practices;

1. Sustainable urban development: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient cities, communities and regions;

1. Biodiversity and ecosystem services: knowledge about how human activities affect biodiversity and ecosystem functions, and how the use of natural resources can be made more sustainable;

1. Environmental and sustainability analyses: advanced modeling and analyses of environmental impacts and of how to improve sustainability at the society, business and production levels.

Additionally, four cross-cutting research areas transverse these core areas, namely ICT as an enabling technology, ethical perspectives related to sustainability, sustainable design and business models, as well as land use and the sustainable use of natural resources. These cross-cutting areas aim at addressing topics across the four main focus areas. This PhD project will bridge the core focus area of Institutional framework conditions and the cross-cutting research area Ethical perspectives.

A PhD position is advertised for a period of 3 years. One year of additional funding can be applied for, which will then include 25% compulsory work over the resulting four year period. Compulsory work is defined as teaching duties related to the strategic research area, and may also include committee and board membership and other administrative tasks. Candidates will be enrolled in a relevant PhD program at NTNU depending on his/her topic. The candidate will be employed at the Faculty of which he/she has been admitted, and will most likely find his/her supervisor and daily workplace there. 

A sustainable future means solving a number of interrelated challenges. We need to increase energy production, reduce energy consumption, we need the energy system to be electrified, and for the electricity to be renewable. What we are looking for in this call has less to do with the need to reduce energy consumption and instead focuses on the three other challenges. It addresses the governance structures and the institutional frameworks surrounding these challenges and the justice and ethical aspects that go along with them.

A transition to a more sustainable society implies a number of changes. One of the lessons of history is that major change triggers resistance. It always creates both winners and losers and leads to decisions that redistribute income and resources, affect people, industries, interest groups, etc. They have economic and political consequences, and they have ethical consequences. Thus, these are decisions that democratic societies often have problems carrying out, and that may lose a politician the next election. A transition to a more sustainable society is undoubtedly among our greatest future potential changes. Knowledge about such changes, how they may be accomplished, and what their consequences may be, is of crucial importance to any society.

These developments represent major challenges to gover

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: NTNU 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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