2 marine policy jobs found

Job title Two PhD Positions in "Infrastructures, Knowledges and Policy Practices in Marine Governance". Company Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) / Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Description of the job The Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) is offering two PhD positions in the newly established Marine Policy and Management working group. The group examines diverse efforts to protect, govern, and reclaim waters across oceans and coastal regions. The research develops innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to understand how knowledge, infrastructure, and policy practices are mobilized in the management of marine waters — by whom, for what purposes, and with what consequences on people and environments. HIFMB is a research institute located in Oldenburg that studies marine biodiversity and its importance for the function of marine ecosystems, the people linked to those ecosystems, and their...

The Renewables Grid Initiative is a unique collaboration between NGOs and transmission system operators (TSOs) from across Europe, engaging in an ‘energy transition ecosystem- of-actors’. We promote fair, transparent and sustainable grid development to enable the growth of renewables to achieve full decarbonisation in line with the Paris Agreement. At RGI, we are convinced that the energy, climate and biodiversity crises can and should be tackled in parallel. In this context, we are increasing our activities related to the protection and restoration of nature in connection with the energy transition – particularly the deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) and electricity grids, both on land and at sea. In 2020, RGI established a multi-stakeholder platform called the Offshore Coalition for Energy and Nature ( OCEaN ). OCEaN brings together NGOs, wind industry actors, and grid operators active in the North and Baltic seas, with the aim of finding sustainable solutions to...