Research Assistant, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
Economic assessment to support Climate Change policies
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) offers a position for a researcher in the context of a project financed by the European Commission FP7 Program ECONADAPT: Economics of climate change adaptation in Europe. The aim of the ECONADAPT project is to provide user-orientated methodologies and evidence relating to economic appraisal criteria to inform the choice of adaptation actions using analysis that incorporates cross-scale governance under conditions of uncertainty. (More information in: http://www.bc3research.org/projects/econadapt.html )
The researcher will mainly contribute to the project although collaborations in other projects and tasks will also be required.
Specifically the Research Assistant will:
- Review de use of non-monetary metrics in sectoral development and adaptation assessment to date.
- Assist in translating European socio-economic scenarios onto the IPCC-guided global SSPs.
- Collaborate in ensuring consistency and comparability in estimates at different scales for different sectors and different time periods.
- Develop protocols for transferring data from the micro scale to the macro and vice-versa.
- Identify economic decision methods under uncertainty.
- Contribute to the developing of a toolbox for economic assessment of adaptation.
- Apply state of the art economic techniques to climate change policy and impacts analysis.
- Undertake in depth reviews of the literature.
- Data gathering, analysis and writing reports.
Experience/skills required:
- The applicant must hold a post-graduate in economics as well as good background in environmental economics and topics related to climate change.
- The applicant must have excellent interpersonal as well communication skills (written and oral) in both English and Spanish.
Location: Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bilbao, Spain.
Tenure: The position will be for a period of 24 months (extensible to 12 more months).
Salary: The position will carry competitive salaries according to the academic and professional profile of the applicant and excellent conditions of work.
Applications: Applicants are invited to submit their CV, a one page motivation letter and the contact details of two referees to hr@bc3research.org with “research assistant position ECONADAPT” in the subject line. Informal enquiries can be made to Elisa Sainz de Murieta (elisa.sainzdemurieta@bc3research.org )
Closing date: 7th April 2014
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