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The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia are hiring for a 1-year, renewable (for a maximum of 4 total years) postdoctoral research position. The successful candidate will work as part of a highly interdisciplinary team researching nature-based solutions (NBS) in riverine and coastal systems. The project is funded by and conducted in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation and approaches NBS as complex adaptive systems.

The postdoc will be under the direct supervision of Drs. Susana Ferreira, Craig Landry (Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics), and Brock Woodson (College of Engineering) but will work with the broader team to co-develop and direct research related to the economic and social aspects of NBS, including ecosystem service and natural capital valuation, integrated assessment of NBS infrastructure projects, decision making under risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity, and coupled human-natural systems.

· Experience in environmental valuation and project assessment.

· Experience in survey design and experimental economics.

· Experience in geospatial methods, data analysis and visualization.

· Experience working on interdisciplinary teams.

· Experience in coupled human-environment systems.

· Record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals.

· Experience communicating to diverse audiences.

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For questions concerning this position or recruitment progression, please refer to the Recruitment Contact listed below.