The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) offers a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher Position for two years, with potential extension to a total of 44 Months, to support the Horizon Europe project RELATE4NATURE (“Relational Biodiversity Economics Approach for Assessing, Weaving and Scaling Socio-Economic Models for Biodiversity Restoration, and Community Resilience to Climate Change and Wellbeing”), under the supervision of Prof Unai Pascual. Join us as a Postdoc at BC3 and contribute to the understanding of the interactions between climate, energy, biodiversity, agri-environmental policy. In this position, the Postdoc will contribute to the further development of existing ecological-economic models and develop new modelling platforms at BC3.
The aim of RELATE4NATURE is to ensure that the values of nature are better reflected in societal decision-making. Today, economic considerations often dominate, while values such as wellbeing, justice and people’s relationships with nature receive less attention. The postdoc project will develop and test new models for integrating these values into decision-making in areas such as agriculture, energy development, urban and regional planning, and nature management.
RELATE4NATURE will contribute to understand how to drive systemic and sustained transformations in socio-economic systems, ecological governance, and human-nature relations to secure a biodiversity-positive, climate resilient, and socially just future. The project responds to the global challenge of a lack of socio-economic models for recognising and embedding relational values (e.g. wellbeing, social cohesion, justice) alongside instrumental and intrinsic values in public and private decision-making.
The project provides synthesised and prioritised tools, methods and pathways to public and private decision-makers for assessing and scaling alternative socio-economic models. RELATE4NATURE co-develops, co-pilots and co-evaluates innovative combinations of established and alternative models tailored to the impact areas of agriculture and rewilding, green energy and biodiversity, nature-positive urban and regional planning, and ecological guardianship.
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3):
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is an international research centre located in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). BC3’s vision is to steer climate change science towards the co-production of new knowledge and the co-design of policy solutions together with other stakeholders through a solid and transdisciplinary approach, with the ultimate goal to achieve more sustainable and just futures. Its mission is to co-produce knowledge and co-design policy solutions with stakeholders, integrating environmental, socioeconomic, and ethical dimensions to address the global challenges of climate change. Founded in 2008, BC3 has grown into a leading international research centre, recognized for its multi-scalar research with global reach.