PhD position Landscape Governance
open universiteit · Wageningen, NL
Are you a systems thinker passionate about bending the curve of biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes? Are you looking for a meaningful research path with impact on the ground? Are you eager to join a stimulating environment, collaborate across academic fields, and engage with private and public actors? Are you enthusiastic to dive into effective planning and governance arrangements for biodiversity recovery in agricultural landscapes? Do you speak English and Dutch? Then, this PhD position might be the perfect fit for you. Biodiversity recovery is essential to sustain resilient food systems, robust businesses, and healthy societies. A transition to a nature inclusive dairy sector in the Netherlands is pivotal to biodiversity recovery, because of its influence in shaping landscapes through land use and management, and because of its socio economic relevance. DECISION is a transdisciplinary project involving farmers, dairy companies, financial and service sectors, and local communities, to co create and accelerate the transition to a resilient and nature inclusive future. DECISION will count on a broad group of experts, four fully funded PhDs candidates and one postdoc. For t