PhD position evolutionary modelling in environmental economics
Free University, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
PhD research project Evolutionary analysis of policies inducing a transition to sustainable development
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Free University, Amsterdam.
Currently, there is much attention for opportunities and barriers to make a transition to more sustainable systems in the areas of energy, agriculture, built environment and mobility. This project aims to model the interaction of microprocesses that cause, direct and hamper transitions. Evolutionary economics serves as the starting point, as it is considered to be capable of describing processes of structural change on the basis of heterogeneous populations, variation, selection, innovation and retention. The approach will lead to a number of formal evolutionary models of transitions on the basis of multi-agent techniques. Specific attention will be given to lock-in and path-dependency, coevolution, and group formation and selection. The ultimate aim is to generate lessons for policy aimed at promoting and steering transitions.
Requirements: - Background in econometrics or quantitative economics, and possibly in applied mathematics, informatics (evolutionary computation) or biology (evolutionary biology, modeling). - Affinity with programming and modeling. - Knowledge of simulation-software (dynamic /evolutionary systems) is an advantage.
The salary range for PhD students (September 2005) is 1877-2407 (1st-4th year). For more information contact Prof. dr. J.C.J.M. van den Bergh, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Free University, Amsterdam (jbergh@feweb.vu.nl; phone 31-(0)20-5986164/6090).
Applications can be sent until January 15th 2006 by email to jbergh at feweb.vu.nl. They should include a CV, a list of university grades, names of two referents (incl. phone and email address) and one publication (bachelor/master thesis or a research paper in electronic form).
Free University, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
PhD research project Evolutionary analysis of policies inducing a transition to sustainable development
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Free University, Amsterdam.
Currently, there is much attention for opportunities and barriers to make a transition to more sustainable systems in the areas of energy, agriculture, built environment and mobility. This project aims to model the interaction of microprocesses that cause, direct and hamper transitions. Evolutionary economics serves as the starting point, as it is considered to be capable of describing processes of structural change on the basis of heterogeneous populations, variation, selection, innovation and retention. The approach will lead to a number of formal evolutionary models of transitions on the basis of multi-agent techniques. Specific attention will be given to lock-in and path-dependency, coevolution, and group formation and selection. The ultimate aim is to generate lessons for policy aimed at promoting and steering transitions.
Requirements: - Background in econometrics or quantitative economics, and possibly in applied mathematics, informatics (evolutionary computation) or biology (evolutionary biology, modeling). - Affinity with programming and modeling. - Knowledge of simulation-software (dynamic /evolutionary systems) is an advantage.
The salary range for PhD students (September 2005) is 1877-2407 (1st-4th year). For more information contact Prof. dr. J.C.J.M. van den Bergh, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Free University, Amsterdam (jbergh@feweb.vu.nl; phone 31-(0)20-5986164/6090).
Applications can be sent until January 15th 2006 by email to jbergh at feweb.vu.nl. They should include a CV, a list of university grades, names of two referents (incl. phone and email address) and one publication (bachelor/master thesis or a research paper in electronic form).