PHD Biodiversity Monitoring

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- PhD Biodiversity monitoring for nature-inclusive agrifood transitions
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- Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance - Internationally leading
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Are you motivated to contribute to the transition toward nature-inclusive agriculture and horticulture? And are you interested in biodiversity, ecosystem services and biological pest control? Then join the NWO-KIC project RISE - Resilient Integrated Systems for Ecosystem restoration as a PhD candidate. You will co-develop an interactive spatial decision-support framework for agrifood transitions in an interdisciplinary team of four PhD candidates, collaborating closely with farmers, growers and societal stakeholders.
Biodiversity restoration in agriculture and horticulture is urgently needed, but difficult to realize in practice. Farmers operate in complex systems: they are embedded in value chains, regional communities, regulatory environments, ecological landscapes, and business models that often prioritize short-term productivity and profitability. RISE addresses this challenge by developing systems-based tools and implementation pathways that help stakeholders make nature-inclusive decisions that are ecologically meaningful, economically viable, and socially supported.
RISE is an interdisciplinary project involving Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Leiden University, and Inholland University of Applied Sciences, together with a broad network of societal partners from agriculture, horticulture, regional development, water management, policy, and civil society. The project works in two regional case areas: Oostland Zuid-Holland, focused on greenhouse horticulture and Reusel-Zuid, focused on open-field agriculture. A...