Message posted on 22/05/2018
VACANCY: two PhD positions on 'ethics of urban resilience' and 'ethics of climate adaptation'
The Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section of the Technical University <br>Delft, the Netherlands, is looking for two PhD-candidates for the EUReCA <br>project Ethics of Urban Resilience and Climate Adaptation (see <br>https://www.academictransfer.com/en/47625/two-phd-positions-ethics-of-urban-r <br>esilience-phd1-and-ethics-of-climate-adaption-phd2/ for the complete vacancy <br>text). <br>Job description <br>It is now widely accepted that climate change requires both mitigation actions <br>to reduce climate change and adaptation measures to cope with the effects of <br>climate change, such as increased droughts, heat waves, heavy rainfall and <br>flooding amongst others. In recent years, resilience has emerged as one of the <br>leading paradigms for climate adaptation policy, involving new responsibility <br>arrangements between state and local actors, with more emphasis on the <br>responsibilities of private citizens. The Ethics and Philosophy of Technology <br>Section of the Technical University Delft is currently looking for two <br>PhD-candidates for the EUReCA (Ethics of Urban Resilience and Climate <br>Adaptation) project. <br>PhD1: Ethics of urban resilience <br>The first project focuses on resilience in an urban context ("urban <br>resilience"), as urban areas hold more than half the world's population and <br>most of its built assets and economic activities. Many of the key and emerging <br>global climate risks are concentrated in urban areas. Recent literature on <br>urban resilience suggests that resilience is increasingly becoming a contested <br>concept. Despite the fact the concept lacks clarity due to theoretical <br>inconsistencies and ambiguity in its use, definitions of resilience in policy <br>uniformly portray urban resilience as a desirable goal. However, whether it is <br>uniformly desirable has been problematized by research that questions the <br>distribution of benefits and burdens under different resilience regimes. We <br>might ask the questions, resilience to what?, resilience of what?, and even, <br>resilience for whom?, in examining resilience-based policies and approaches. A <br>growing number of scholars now recognize that, for climate adaptation to draw <br>on and benefit in practical ways from a resilience approach, the appropriation <br>and use of resilience to justify policy measures should be critically <br>scrutinized, as they contain particular normative choices that are often not <br>made explicit. This project aims to develop an ethics of urban resilience, <br>with a focus on conceptual and normative questions. <br>PhD2: Ethics of climate adaptation <br>The second project focuses on climate adaptation with the specific aim to <br>develop an ethics of climate adaptation. This objective revolves around the <br>question what people consider fair responsibility arrangements in climate <br>adaptation. The candidate will analyze and compare different adaptation <br>policies and see how these policies involve different responsibility <br>arrangements between public and private actors, such as companies and <br>citizens. A major gap in the literature is the lack of insight in how <br>different responsibility arrangements impact on social justice and what the <br>community characteristics are that may avoid or reduce the occurrence of <br>injustices. This project's focus is on empirically-informed normative <br>questions. <br>For the first PhD-position, we are looking for someone with a background in <br>political philosophy/applied ethics, preferably complemented with a relevant <br>empirical background, for example urban planning or geography. <br>For the second PhD-position, we are looking for someone with a dual background <br>in philosophy and a relevant natural science or social science background, for <br>example water management, urban planning, or science and technology studies. <br>Information and application <br>For more information about the two positions, please contact Prof.dr.mr.ir. <br>Neelke Doorn via email: n.doorn@tudelft.nl. To apply, please send a detailed <br>CV and a two-page proposal describing how you would undertake the research <br>project. Since the aim is to have some cross-pollination between the work of <br>the two candidates, we encourage you to include some ideas on how you plan to <br>collaborate with the other PhD-candidate. <br>Application interviews will probably be held in the week of September 10-14 <br>and/or September 17-21, 2018, and possibly a second round some weeks later. <br>Applications should be sent by August 26, 2018 to vacature-tbm@tudelft.nl. <br>Intended starting date is November 1, 2018. <br>When applying for this position, please refer to vacancy number ATTBM18.013. <br>Clearly indicate for which of the two positions apply. If you apply for both <br>positions, we also would like to receive two separate proposals on how you <br>would like to undertake the respective projects. <br> <br> <br>Prof.dr.mr.ir. Neelke Doorn <br>TU Delft <br>Professor Ethics of Water Engineering <br>Department of Values, Technology and Innovation <br>Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management <br>Jaffalaan 5 <br>2628 BX Delft <br>P.O. Box 5015 <br>2600 GA Delft <br>The Netherlands <br>+31 (0) 15 2788059 <br>N.Doorn@tudelft.nl <br>www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/doorn <br> <br>Editor-in-Chief Techne: Research in Philosophy and <br>Technology <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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