Hi everyone, please see below details of a post doc opportunity to work with Prof Dan Brockington and myself at University of Sheffield - it is part of the wider Convivial Conservation Project, led by Bram Buscher and Rob Fletcher at Wageningen. Please encourage good candidates to apply
best Rosaleen ----------------------------- We have a really exciting job opportunity on a fantastic project. We are now advertising for a 35 month post-doc that will be held at SIID, at the University of Sheffield. Details are here <https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NUJCQkQxRTc2MDY1MTYyOEUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos#> . This is part of the Convivial Conservation project, on which see here <https://convivialconservation.com/con-viva/> and below. It is one of several hires in process, details of which are here <https://convivialconservation.com/2018/08/21/vacancy-for-five-postdocs-and-1-phd-position-on-convivial-conservation/> . Dan Brockington Director, SIID *Towards Convivial Conservation: Governing Human-Wildlife Relations in the Anthropocene <https://www.norface.net/project/con-viva-towards-convivial-conservation-governing-human-wildlife-interactions-in-the-anthropocene/>* (CON-VIVA) is a major research project funded by the Belmont Forum <http://www.belmontforum.org/> and NORFACE <https://www.norface.net/>. It is one of the main ways through which *convivial conservation* is currently being operationalized. The project is grounded in the premise that conservation is critical to transformations to sustainability but that its practices need to change radically. Conservation can be effective in protecting biodiversity in places, but in toto has failed to halt global biodiversity loss. Continued habitat fragmentation and reduced funding during times of austerity compound this problem. Many conservationists now acknowledge this, leading to vigorous ‘Anthropocene’ discussions on how to reconfigure human-wildlife relations, protected areas and the role of economic development in conservation. CON-VIVA’s key objective is to conceptually refine and empirically test the prospects for one proposal emerging from these debates: ‘convivial conservation’. This new model moves beyond protected areas and faith in markets to build landscape, governance and funding pathways that integrate conservation and poverty reduction, while enhancing prosperity. CON-VIVA investigates the prospects for convivial conservation by comparing cutting-edge conservation cases that address human-wildlife conflict involving apex predators in Brazil, Finland, Tanzania and USA <https://convivialconservation.com/con-viva/places/>. Our hypothesis is that if ‘living with’ apex predators can be effectively combined with new forms of economic development, a transition to convivial conservation can be boosted significantly. -- Professor Rosaleen Duffy, FAcSS The Department of Politics University of Sheffield Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield S10 2TU https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic/rosaleen-duffy/profile Principal Investigator: *BIOSEC: Biodiversity and Security, Understanding Environmental Crime, Illegal Wildlife Trade and Threat Finance.* ERC Advanced Investigator Grant. https://biosecproject.org twitter @biosec_erc *new paper:* Le Billon, P. and Duffy, R. (2018) Conflict ecologies: connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies, *Journal of Political Ecology* https://journals .uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22704 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
