The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (ISIS) of Radboud
University Nijmehgen (Netherlands) offers two fully funded PhD positions
within the larger VIDI project 'Reading the Landscape. A Hermeneutic
Approach to Environmental Ethics', funded by the Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO). This overall project aims to develop a new
approach to environmental ethics in order to deal with moral conflicts
arising from ongoing, large-scale landscape changes directed towards
'rewilding'. It builds on the idea that landscapes are interpreted in
various ways, and that environmental narratives based on these readings
play a key role in our moral relationships with the environment.
Understanding the meaning of a landscape is part of an ongoing dialogue
about who 'we' are and what the world is to 'us'. By examining relevant
ethical narratives at play in these conflicts, this project seeks to
overcome the deadlock in moral debates on issues regarding landscape
change and to help deepen moral debates on ecological restoration projects
in cultural landscapes. Part of this project will be two PhD projects.

PhD Candidate 1: Ethics of Ecological Restoration in Cultural Landscapes
*Vacancy number: 62.75.12* , *Closing date: 11 November 2012*

The sub-project 'The Ethics of Ecological Restoration in Cultural
Landscapes' will examine normative motives at play in conflicts about
'rewilding' projects in cultural landscapes, and will compare different
strategies to combine new nature projects with the care for cultural
landscape heritage and acknowledge the importance of sense of place in
nature conservation.
More info on this vancancy:
/http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0>recid=3D523234/

PhD Candidate 2: Ethics of Living with Large Predators
*Vacancy number: 62.76.12* , *Closing date: 11 November 2012*

The sub-project 'The Ethics of Living with Large Predators' will examine
normative motives at play in conflicts involving the reintroduction of
large predators such as wolves and other 'inconvenient' species, which
challenges our perceived notions of identity and our sense of place.
More info on this vacancy:
/http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0>recid=3D523314/

A full description of the overall project (including both PhD projects) is
available here:
/http://home.xmsnet.nl/drenthen/vidi-en.html/

Both PhD projects will be carried out under the supervision of principal
investigator Dr. Martin Drenthen and Prof. dr. Hub Zwart or Prof. dr.
Jozef Keulartz.

Please send your application, stating vacancy number (62.75.12 or
62.76.12) to pz@science.ru.nl, for the attention
of Ms W. van der Pluijm,
before 11 November 2012.

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Dr. Martin Drenthen
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Institute for Science, Innovation & Society
Mailbox number 77
Faculty of Science
Radboud University Nijmegen
PO Box 9010
6500 GL Nijmegen
the Netherlands