Are you familiar with the debate on planetary boundaries, tipping points and social floors? Are you familiar with the related debates on access to resources and allocation of the responsibilities, risks and resources? Are you familiar with environmental and social justice debates?
The
Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) team at the University of Amsterdam scrutinizes development dynamics at various geographical, jurisdictional and temporal scales, realizing that these are situated in different but interconnected multi-level processes. GID analyses and rethinks dominant development paradigms, and engages with international, national and local development practices, policies and debates to identify viable and socially just alternatives. The team focuses on the strategic issues of multi-level (glocal) governance and inclusive development.
We are looking for two Junior Researchers with an MSc/MA in environmental studies/development studies/economics or other relevant disciplines to play a part in the research work of a team looking at how we can identify qualitative and quantitative targets for a safe and just pathway to development - which is within planetary boundaries and addresses social justice issues.
The two Junior Researchers will support the work of The Earth Commission's Co-Chair Joyeeta Gupta and Working Group 4:
- Co-Chair of the Earth Commission (see https://earthcommission.org/)
- Co-Chair of Working Group 4 of the Earth Commission (see mandate of Working Group 4 attached).
The Earth Commission is a global commission that is conducting a global scale assessment to define and identify
a safe and just corridor for people and the planet. The purpose of Working Group 4 is to find science based evidence of what a just corridor for the Earth's development looks like, what are just targets and levers to ensure global transformation. Understanding how scholarship assesses what is just and how a just transformation can take place is thus a critical element of this project.
What are you going to doThe work of the Junior Researcher will include:
- support to co-chair in terms of research
- identification of all the topics on which work needs to be done;
- preparing reading lists for the different topics;
- making extensive notes on each of the readings/meetings;
- maintaining background documents with all the research materials;
- writing draft texts;
- possibly helping with graphics, maps, tables, figures.
- support to co-chair in terms of linking the work of others in the Working Group, and
- identifying and collating the comments of the members;
- clustering the comments;
- suggesting how the comments can be addressed.
- help with organizing the co-creation and review process
- identifying potential reviewers;
- sending out documents for the review process;
- collecting and collating the reviews;
- checking that all review comments are done; and
- helping organizing meetings on the subject.
- double checking all submitted publications for accuracy.