Stillingstittel:
PhD position in Geomatics and Urban Metabolism (IVT - 20/16)

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NTNU - kunnskap for en bedre verden

Ved NTNU, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, skapes kunnskap for en bedre verden og løsninger som kan forandre hverdagen. 

Fakultet for ingeniørvitenskap og teknologiInstitutt for energi og prosessteknikk

Jobbnorge ID: 124887

The Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol), Department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is seeking a PhD student to analyse materials use in human settlements to inform government policies and business strategies for primary and secondary raw material use, waste management, and climate change mitigation. The PhD position is funded by the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology (IVT) towards NTNU Sustainability, and the project will be integrated in a larger effort of NTNU to bridge industrial ecology, geomatics, and urban planning.

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:

   

i. Institutional framework conditions: the conditions necessary for implementing sustainable policies and practices;ii. Sustainable urban development: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient cities, communities and regions;iii. 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;iv. 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 crosscutting areas aim at addressing topics across the four main focus areas. This PhD position addresses the core focus areas (ii) and (iv) and the crosscutting research area "land use and sustainable use of natural resources". 

 

Human settlements lie at the nexus of wellbeing, global resource use, and climate change. Urbanisation helps to pull people out of poverty and can advance progress towards achieving several of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing access to food, shelter, transport, sanitation, education, and health services. However, urbanisation is also a key driver for global resource use and greenhouse gas emissions. Urban planning could therefore play an important role in balancing the SDGs. In order to fulfil this function, it is essential to understand the link between human settlement form (and transformation) and resource use. This link is still poorly established, which hinders the estimation of resource use and recycling potential for alternative urban development pathways and thus the identification of effective strategies for resource efficiency and climate change mitigation. 

 

The PhD student will contribute to address this gap by developing and applying methods for a spatially explicit accounting of resources contained in human settlements, focusing on construction materials in buildings and infrastructures. For selected case studies with different settlement structures, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be used in combination with remote

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Kolbjørn Hejesvei 1B 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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Lønn periode: Pr. år