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