The Emmett Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law invites applications for a two-year fellowship on the societal implications, governance, and legal and policy issues posed by climate engineering (geoengineering), beginning on July 1, 2018
Fellows will conduct research, and legal and policy analysis, relevant to the societal challenges posed by potential climate engineering technologies. Examples of specific areas of interest include the following: - The development of practical governance frameworks for proposed climate engineering research; - The assessment and monitoring needs posed by potential climate engineering interventions, and how these might be integrated into legal and regulatory frameworks; - Potential interactions of climate engineering proposals (either large-scale atmospheric carbon-dioxide removal or interventions in the Earth’s radiation balance) with existing and developing policy and legal frameworks for climate change, at both the international and national/sub-national level; - Potential interactions of climate engineering with climate-change adaptation, particularly concerning the unique vulnerabilities to climate change of low-income developing countries. - The identification of feasible early initiatives to help aid longer-development of governance capability that may be needed to effectively respond to future proposals to engage in climate engineering Fellows’ responsibilities will involve some combination of individual and collaborative research, with some expected contribution to the administration and development of the project, as well as possible opportunities to teach. The specific configuration of responsibilities for the successful candidate or candidates will be developed in consultation with the project PI, Professor Edward Parson. Candidates should hold an advanced degree in a relevant field and should have demonstrated interest and experience relevant to climate engineering and a willingness and ability to engage new areas of inquiry as needed to succeed in interdisciplinary work. Interested candidates are invited to apply at https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03572. The deadline for submitting an application is 30 April, 2018. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
