My Junior Research Group #KoReGio100 will officially start on November 1st, and we currently have three very attractive #PhD positions open (100%, 5 years, all based in Germany). One with me, at ZALF in Müncheberg, on land and resource use conflicts, one with my co-head Dr. Katrin Martens at HU Berlin on social innovations, and one at MLU Halle on geoecology and GIS. See the links below for more information. I'd be very happy if you could forward this to potentially interested candidates!

https://jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/00f5839bfc91637c24a08103f6d944d8c830c4310

https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibungen/dr18825

https://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Ausschr/25_5_9107_25_D.pdf

@ZALF_leibniz @HumboldtUni @sociology @politicalscience @geography

#FediHire #PhDPosition #ResearchAssociate #LandUseConflict #SocialInnovation #Geoecology

New paper published!

In the last paper of my PhD thesis I explore how land use conflicts escalate into non-collaborative dynamics, explaining how certain conditions lead to escalation.

>>> How do land use conflicts escalate? Identifying causal mechanisms in a conflict over a biogas plant in Brandenburg, Germany
https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70038

Edit: There is also a plain language summary available: https://relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/04/07/plain-language-summary-how-escalation-is-triggered-in-conflicts-over-land-use-and-how-we-can-prevent-it/

#LandUse #LandUseConflict #Conflict #Escalation #Paper

@socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography
@academicchatter

My thoughts on 'Neoliberal peri‐urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales' (Ren Hu & Nicholas J. Gill, 2022).

This paper includes a very thorough literary review and insights into the perceptions and experiences of Illawara dairy farmers as the region is urbanised.

The paper is perhaps worth a read if you are concerned with land-use issues in rural communities.

https://joesilver.micro.blog/2025/03/25/my-commentary-on-the-paper.html

#Agriculture #UrbanPlanning #LandUse #Neolibralism #LandUseConflict #Illawara #AcademicCommunity