We have a three year, fixed term research fellow post open to work on the
geospatial & data elements of City Sustainability.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the City Sustainability
Laboratory, to contribute to the research programme supported by the
prestigious Leverhulme Programme Grant ³Sustaining Urban Habitats: An
Interdisciplinary Approach². The ambitious aim of this programme is to
transform our understanding of how sustainable cities, and by extension
our species, can be. Our objectives in achievement of this aim are to:
* Confront and understand the complex interrelated and competing factors
influencing urban sustainability.
* Holistically define, measure and model urban sustainability.
* Identify pathways to transition developed cities and accommodate growth
in developing cities in minimally unsustainable ways.
* Define policy and governance structures to implement these pathways in
practice.
This particular role will focus on the environmental sustainability of
cities and the management and integration of data to support the
characterisation and modelling of city sustainability. In particular to:
* Unambiguously define and measure environmental sustainability in a
predictable and realistic way; which also deepens our insights into the
functioning of the city, to identify where there is scope for improvement.
* Integrate the various forms of data required to achieve this together
with the data required by a comprehensive urban modeling platform being
developed throughout the project, applied to both real cities and
simplified abstractions of them.
We are looking for candidates with a background in computing or
geographical information science for this post with an interest in the
concept of urban sustainability. The post is in the School of Geography,
working with Doreen Boyd and Jeremy Morley, with the Nottingham Geospatial
Institute.
More details, including salary range and full job specification, are
available here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SOC203014
The advert closes on Tuesday, 26th August 2014.
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Jeremy Morley
Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute,
Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom.
Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi Twitter: jeremy_morley
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