Stillingstittel:
Researcher on project Natural hazards and community resilience

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The Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology ManagementDepartment of Geography

Jobbnorge ID: 121371

A temporary position as researcher is available at the Department of Geography. The position is a 1 year post contained within a research project on Natural hazards and community resilience.

 

Information about the Department

Currently, the Department employs 9 Professors, 10 Associate Professors and 12 PhD candidates. Staff at the Department is organised in four interconnected groups whose research covers a broad range of fields across human and physical geography: 1) Climate, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation, 2) Environment, resources and management, 3) Mobility, transnationalism and inequality 4) Innovation in industry and society. The researcher will join the research group on Climate, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation.

 

Job description

- NORDRESS - the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Resilience and Societal Security is a Centre of Excellence   under the Social Security Programme of NordForsk. (http://nordress.hi.is). Its aim is to carry out multidisciplinary studies to enhance societal security and resilience to natural disasters. The center includes partners from 15 institutions in all Nordic countries.

 

- NORDRESS will explore resilience from the dimensions of individuals, communities, infrastructure and institutions in Nordic societies in order to elucidate how resilience can be increased at different societal levels. By focusing on extreme weather, floods, mud slides, avalanches, and volcanic eruptions, NORDRESS researchers study the effects of natural hazards impacting all the Nordic countries from local to trans-boundary levels.

 

- The research position is part of a work package on 'community resilience'. The analytical point of departure is an acknowledgement of the fact that communities (e.g. neighbourhoods, villages or municipalities) often play a vital role during and after a disastrous event. The capability of local communities to prepare for, act during, and recover after a crisis is commonly referred to as community resilience. A number of international studies have set out to unpack the concept itself and identify the drivers of community resilience, including identifying relevant indicators in order to measure resilience.

 

- The notion of community resilience in relation to natural hazards has not been much explored in a Nordic context. In the project a set of case studies will be carried out in Nordic communities which have experienced disasters in order to explore the role of community resilience in the phases of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. We are now looking for a researcher who will investigate how resilience is constituted and enacted in Nordic communities. Possible research questions to be addressed are: Which factors contribute to community resilience? Which community resources can be/are mobilized in a crisis situation? How can community resilience be strengthened? The researcher will contribute to the project primarily by studying one or several cases in a Nordic country, preferably outside Norway. 

 

- The researcher will carry out his/her project in close collaboration with the project Climres- Climate  change and natural hazards: the geography of community resilience in Norway (http://www.climres.no). The researc

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år