Jobs:Job-00013
Apply before: 4 November 2019
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Position: PhD opportunity
Apply before: 4 November 2019
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Design and evaluation of adaptation strategies to climate and global change in Mediterranean basins with intensive use of water for irrigation (ADAPTAMED)
Summary:
Climate and global change represents one of the greatest challenges today and can pose a major threat to the security of water supply in the coming decades, exacerbated by population growth and socio-economic development. ADAPTAMED aims at developing a framework to define efficient and robust climate-global change adaptation measures and pathways in water-stressed river basins with high water use for irrigated agriculture. Robustness indicators will be defined based on physical, economic, social an environmental criteria, confronted to water users in participatory processes including workshops and surveys. Unlike the classical "top-down" approach, where scenarios guide the analysis of adaptation, ADAPTAMED proposes the development of stress tests and decision scaling techniques for a range of change in climatic forcing. Confronting system performance under temperature and precipitation changes with specific socioeconomic and climate change scenarios can help identify whether the projected change is a threat, and when a tipping point is reached, requiring actions. To carry out this analysis, an improved characterization of climate change impacts on crop yield and irrigation needs and bioclimatic suitability will be developed by crafting an agronomic model specifically designed for citrus crops. A basin-scale analysis of fish habitat alteration under climate change using ecological modeling techniques will be also implemented, with adaptation through a new e-flow regime. Characterization of irrigation modernization approaches will be improved by confronting plot-scale impacts to the basin scale through field works combined with remote sensing techniques. Social and governance impacts caused by modernization will be determined, in order to define efficient modernization strategies with attention given to second generation modernization as an adaptation measure to future scenarios of greater water stress and climate change.
Profile:
- You should be willing to work in a transdisciplinary project
- You should have one of these Bachelor degrees: Civil Engineering, Forestry Engineering, Environmental Science/Engineering, Agricultural Engineering,
- A master's degree in water resources or environmental science with knowledge in hydrology and irrigation management will be beneficial
- Good written and spoken English and communication skills
- Spanish communication skills would be beneficial.
