Monday, November 25, 2019

FW: Position in ecology/biology at the Department of Environment and Development, NMBU, Norway

We are looking for a young, promising ecologist at the Department of Environment and Development, Noragric, NMBU. The position is intended to replace Professor Ian Bryceson's and his position in applied ecology here at Noragric. (He has been working with marine fisheries in East Africa and other coastal areas for 40 years).. We enjoy an extensive network in this area. Professor Ian Bryceson ( 936 67 541) will continue as an emeritus professor here…(https://www.nmbu.no/ans/ian.bryceson)

Noragric has a wide global network in the field of environment and development studies. At present we have two ecologists and 6-7 agronomists working at Noragric in addition to social scientists and a number of interdisciplinary scientists working across and together in the field of environment and development studies.

I hope this could be of interest and please feel free to call me, (Head of Environmental governance research cluster) or any other (Ian fi).

I enclose the advertisement link below..


Associate professor in Applied Ecology The Faculty of Landscape and Society, the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) seeks an Associate Professor with substantial research and teaching experience in ecology and proven ability to work with issues of relevance to environmental governance.as https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/177553/associate-professor-in-applied-ecology

Best regards

Paul Vedeld

Professor Paul Vedeld
Environment and development studies
Head of Environmental Governance Research Group (ENGOV)


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Phone: cellphone 0047 9097 5257
Office: 0047 67231311

Postal address: NORAGRIC, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Box 5003 1432 Ås Norway

email: palve@nmbu.no<mailto:palve@nmbu.no>
cv:
email: palve@nmbu.no<mailto:palve@nmbu.no>

cv: https://www.nmbu.no/ans/pal.vedeld

http://scholar.google.no/citations?user=A_fZv1wAAAAJ&hl=no

http://scholar.google.no/citations?user=A_fZv1wAAAAJ&hl=no

Research interests: Environmental governance, politics, planning and management, legitimacy of governance and participation, environmental resources and local livelihoods and dependence; protected areas policies and politics, agricultural, resource and development economics: peasant household economics; production, poverty and environmental issues, theories in and for interdisciplinarity
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Regards

Paul Vedeld


Professor Paul Vedeld
Environment and development studies
Head of Environmental Governance Research Group (ENGOV)

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Phone: cellphone 0047 9097 5257
Office: 0047 67231311

Postal address: NORAGRIC, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Box 5003 1432 Ås Norway

email: palve@nmbu.no<mailto:palve@nmbu.no>

cv: https://www.nmbu.no/ans/pal.vedeld

http://scholar.google.no/citations?user=A_fZv1wAAAAJ&hl=no

website; http://www.engopa.no/

Research interests: Environmental governance, politics, planning and management, legitimacy of governance and participation, environmental resources and local livelihoods and dependence; protected areas policies and politics, agricultural, resource and development economics: peasant household economics; production, poverty and environmental issues, theories in and for interdisciplinarity
Recent publications
Ognjen Žurovec * and Pål Olav Vedeld 2019. Rural Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation in Laggard Transitional Economies: A Case from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sustainability Published: 1 November 2019. MPDI.

Mary Nantongo, Arild Vatn, Paul Vedeld 2019; All that glitters is not gold; Power and participation in processes and structures of implementing REDD+ in Kondoa, Tanzania. Forest Policy and Economics . 100 (2019) 44–54 1389-9341. Elsevier.

Mrimi, D. J., Nyahongo, J. W., Vedeld, P. O., Massawe, B. H., & Jjunju, C. N. (2019). Spatial distribution of heavy metals in soil with distance from Tazama pipeline through the Mikumi National Park, Tanzania. Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management, 10(5), 75-81.

Carol Aboda, P. Vedeld et al . P.Byakagaba, F.Mugagga, G. Nabanoga 2019. Socio-economic risks of displacement and resettlement of local people - a case of construction of the oil refinery in Kabaale and the Kaiso-tonya road in Uganda. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2019.

J.G. Petursson and P. Vedeld 2018. Lost in the woods! A political economy of the 1998 forest sector reform in Uganda. (Jon Geir Petursson (University of Iceland and Iceland Ministry of Environment) et al.) in Conservation and Development in Uganda (ed. Sandbrook et al 2018). Routledge. London.

Devotha b. Mosha, Paul Vedeld, Josiah Katani, George. C. Kajembe and Andrew Tarimo 2018. Contribution of paddy production to household income in farmer-managed irrigation scheme communities in Iringa rural and Kilombero districts, Tanzania. Journal of Agricultural Studies ISSN 2166-0379 2018, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Nigel Dudley,1,2….. Pål Olav Vedeld et al 2018. Priorities for protected area research. Parks Volume 24 May 1. 2018: The international Journal for Protected areas and conservation.
Leif Tore Trædal and Pål Vedeld 2018. Cultivating forests: The role of forest land in household livelihood adaptive strategies in the Bac Kan Province of northern Vietnam Land Use Policy (in press)

Arild Vatn George, Kajembe, dos Santos Silayo and Pål Vedeld 2017: REDD in Tanzania. CCIAM Governance structures for REDD+ – experiences from Tanzania. Book chapter accepted in Kulindwa, K. 2016 (ed) : Lessons and Implications for REDD+. Implementation experiences from Tanzania. E & D Vision Publishing.

Jon Geir Petursson and Paul Vedeld. 2017. Rhetoric and Reality In Protected Area Governance: Institutional Change Under Different Conservation Discourses In Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda. (Ecological Economics. (131)166-177. Elsevier.

Leif Tore Trædal and Pål Vedeld 2017 : Moving beyond the poverty-environment nexus in REDD+ in Vietnam: Exploring livelihoods, land use and environmental policy discourses in the Lam Dong Province. (Forests 2017, 8(2), 39. MDPI AG.)

Belachew Gizachew; Rasmus Astrup; Pål Vedeld; Eliakimu Zahabu; Lalisa A Duguma 2017 "REDD+ in Africa: Contexts and Challenges" (Natural Resources Forum, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal (accepted December 2016).

Vedeld, P. 2017. "Something that the NGOs do? Notes on participation governance with examples from the environment and development policy field. Working paper 50, Noragric.

Cavanagh, C.J. and A. Chemarum, P. Vedeld, and J.G. Petursson. (2017). Old wine, new bottles? Investigating the differential adoption of 'climate-smart' agricultural practices in western Kenya. Journal of Rural Studies 56: 114-123.

New book; Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture Climate Change and Sustainability in Agriculture . 2017 Editors: Lal, R., Kraybill, D., Hansen, D.O., Singh, B.R., Mosogoya, T., Eik, L.O. (Eds.)
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319412368
New book; Kulindwa, K. 2016 (ed) : Lessons and Implications for REDD+. Implementation experiences from Tanzania. E & D Vision Publishing. http://bit.ly/2iPylox http://www.marymartin.com/web/selectedIndex?mEntry=240963

J.G. Petursson and P. Vedeld 2018. Lost in the woods! A political economy of the 1998 forest sector reform in Uganda. (Jon Geir Petursson (University of Iceland and Iceland Ministry of Environment) et al.) in Conservation and Development in Uganda (ed. Sandbrook et al 2018). Routledge. London.

Devotha b. Mosha, Paul Vedeld, Josiah Katani, George. C. Kajembe and Andrew Tarimo 2018. Contribution of paddy production to household income in farmer-managed irrigation scheme communities in Iringa rural and Kilombero districts, Tanzania. Journal of Agricultural Studies ISSN 2166-0379 2018, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Nigel Dudley,1,2….. Pål Olav Vedeld et al 2018. Priorities for protected area research. Parks Volume 24 May 1. 2018: The international Journal for Protected areas and conservation.
Leif Tore Trædal and Pål Vedeld 2018. Cultivating forests: The role of forest land in household livelihood adaptive strategies in the Bac Kan Province of northern Vietnam Land Use Policy (in press)

Arild Vatn George, Kajembe, dos Santos Silayo and Pål Vedeld 2017: REDD in Tanzania. CCIAM Governance structures for REDD+ – experiences from Tanzania. Book chapter accepted in Kulindwa, K. 2016 (ed) : Lessons and Implications for REDD+. Implementation experiences from Tanzania. E & D Vision Publishing.

Jon Geir Petursson and Paul Vedeld. 2017. Rhetoric and Reality In Protected Area Governance: Institutional Change Under Different Conservation Discourses In Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda. (Ecological Economics. (131)166-177. Elsevier.

Leif Tore Trædal and Pål Vedeld 2017 : Moving beyond the poverty-environment nexus in REDD+ in Vietnam: Exploring livelihoods, land use and environmental policy discourses in the Lam Dong Province. (Forests 2017, 8(2), 39. MDPI AG.)

Belachew Gizachew; Rasmus Astrup; Pål Vedeld; Eliakimu Zahabu; Lalisa A Duguma 2017 "REDD+ in Africa: Contexts and Challenges" (Natural Resources Forum, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal (accepted December 2016).

Vedeld, P. 2017. "Something that the NGOs do? Notes on participation governance with examples from the environment and development policy field. Working paper 50, Noragric.

Cavanagh, C.J. and A. Chemarum, P. Vedeld, and J.G. Petursson. (2017). Old wine, new bottles? Investigating the differential adoption of 'climate-smart' agricultural practices in western Kenya. Journal of Rural Studies 56: 114-123.

New book; Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture Climate Change and Sustainability in Agriculture . 2017 Editors: Lal, R., Kraybill, D., Hansen, D.O., Singh, B.R., Mosogoya, T., Eik, L.O. (Eds.)
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319412368
New book; Kulindwa, K. 2016 (ed) : Lessons and Implications for REDD+. Implementation experiences from Tanzania. E & D Vision Publishing. http://bit.ly/2iPylox http://www.marymartin.com/web/selectedIndex?mEntry=240963