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I would be most grateful if you would circulate this fellowship
announcement to potential candidates. Thank you.

Sustainability Science Fellowships at Harvard University
Doctoral, Post-doctoral, and Mid-career Fellowships
Due date for applications: January 15, 2014

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University invites
applications for resident fellowships in sustainability science for
the academic year beginning in September 2014. The fellowship
competition is open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students,
and to mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice to
facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective
interventions that promote sustainable development. Some of the most
serious constraints to sustainable development lie in the
interconnections among sectors: energy’s growing need for water; the
impacts of water use on human health; the competition for land among
food, energy and conservation initiatives; and the cumulative impact
of all sectoral initiatives on climate and other key environmental
services.  A central challenge is to develop an integrated
understanding of how sectoral initiatives for sustainability can
compete with and complement one another in particular regional
contexts. The 2014-15 fellowship competition therefore focuses on
regional initiatives pursing an integrated perspective on sustainable
development in India, China and Brazil. It also includes a
cross-cutting research initiative to integrate work focused on the
theme of Innovation for Sustainable Development. Preference in this
year’s competition will be given to applicants whose proposals
complement one or more of these four initiatives. The Initiatives (see
below), are led by Professors William Clark, Henry Lee, Paul
Moorcroft, and Rohini Pande. The Program is also open, however, to
strong proposals in any area of sustainability science.  In addition
to general funds available to support this fellowship offering,
special funding for the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowships in Sustainability
Science is available to support citizens of Italy, Brazil, China,
India or developing countries who are therefore especially encouraged
to apply. For more information on the fellowships application process
see http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustsci/fellowships.
Applications are due January 15, 2014 and decisions will be announced
in March 2014.

Governance Innovations for Sustainable Development: Building
Public-Private Partnerships in India
Faculty leader: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy
Faculty co-leader: Michael Greenstone
Please direct all inquiries to the Initiative Manager, Robert Rosenbaum
Sustainable development, by its nature, requires government and
private actors to work together. Externalities from rapid growth, such
as the depletion of subsidized resources, widespread air and water
pollution or unsustainable energy use, arise from a joint failure of
government and industry to create an economy where the most profitable
action is also best socially. Governance Innovations for Sustainable
Development is a research program working with governments to channel
the enterprising potential of the private sector to correct such
externalities. This initiative addresses questions in sustainable
environmental regulation in India of both national and global import,
and provides evidence on how public-private partnerships can
contribute to solving existing challenges. Our research focuses on
three overarching problems. First, existing environmental regulations
are weakly enforced by possibly under-resourced regulators, leading to
poor environmental quality. Second, traditional regulations, even if
strengthened, are not the right tools to address many of India's
pollution problems. Third, from the perspective of sustainability of
resource use, India's inefficient and rapidly growing energy
consumption threatens to undermine its own development by contributing
to global climate change. The research team is partnering with
government and private institutions in order to conduct field trials
of innovative environmental policies and provide rigorous evidence on
their impact for sustainable development. Doctoral, post-doctoral, and
mid-career candidates are encouraged to apply.

Sustainable Development of the Amazon and its Surrounding Regions: The
Interplay of Changing Climate, Hydrology, and Land Use
Faculty leader: Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Faculty co-leader: John Briscoe
Ongoing agricultural expansion and other land use changes in Amazonia
and the surrounding regions are expected to continue over the next
several decades as global demand for food and biofuel increases and
regional economies expand. The conversion of natural forest and
cerrado ecosystems to pastureland and agricultural crops creates
warmer and drier atmospheric conditions than the native vegetation. In
addition, human induced climate change arising from increasing levels
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is expected to push the Amazon
region towards a warmer and drier state. In a number of recent climate
modeling studies, the Amazon has been shown to exhibit two contrasting
states for the water cycle and ecosystems of the region: a moist
forested state, and an alternate drier and warmer state with sparser
vegetation. This has raised the question of whether deforestation and
conversion to agricultural land cause the
atmosphere-vegetation-hydrologic system of the Amazon to switch from
its current moist state to the warmer and drier one? And if so, will
this new state have sufficient precipitation to sustain the natural
and managed ecosystems, and hydropower operations in the region? In
this study, we are answering these questions using (a) a
newly-developed state-of-the-art coupled vegetation-atmosphere model
to investigate the stability of the Amazonian hydrologic system
(sometimes referred to as "rivers in the sky", as well as accompanying
river flows on the ground) to scenarios of land use and climate change
and (b) models to assess the implications of hydrological changes on
the hydropower and agricultural economies of Brazil. Post-doctoral
candidates who have experience with integrated land-water-climate
models and/or experience analyzing patterns and trends of land use and
land use change are particularly encouraged to apply as are candidates
with expertise in the hydrological drivers of the hydropower and
agricultural systems.

Sustainable Development of the Energy Sector in China: Challenges and Options
Faculty leader: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Director, Environment and
Natural Resources Program
Faculty co-leaders: Laura Diaz Anadon, Venkatesh Narayanamurti
The China Initiative addresses the environmental implications of
energy policies in China and explores how China can manage these
implications. Fellows work to identify and promote policies that will
contribute to the thoughtful use of China's natural resources (e.g.,
water, land) and/or the adoption of cleaner and less carbon-intensive
industrial and energy technologies. Research areas include, but are
not limited to: analyzing the impact of energy and industrial policies
on water scarcity and air pollution; assessing polices to promote a
low-carbon energy portfolio and an analysis of options to improve the
efficient use of energy. Post-doctoral and mid-career candidates,
especially those who speak Chinese, are particularly encouraged to
apply.

Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development
Faculty leader: William Clark, Brooks Professor of International
Science, Public Policy and Human Development
Faculty co-leaders: Laura Diaz Anadon, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon
Meeting sustainable development goals will require harnessing and
maximizing the potential of technological innovation. Examples of such
technologies include carbon capture and storage systems, more
efficient irrigation methods, essential medicines, household water
purification devices, and manufacturing processes that minimize waste
and pollution. While some needed innovations can be fostered through
existing public and private mechanisms at the national level, such
efforts have proven inadequate to meet global sustainability goals,
particularly with regard to meeting the needs of the world’s poorest,
most vulnerable or marginalized in current and future generations. Too
often, technologies are either not developed at all for lack of a
sufficiently profitable market, or if developed, are not accessible or
well-adapted to end-user needs. This initiative seeks to advance
knowledge and understanding of how to equitably improve the
functioning of the “global innovation system” for sustainable
development technologies. We have been conducting comparative studies
of how well the system functions to meet five sustainable development
needs (food, energy, health, manufactured goods, and water), with a
special focus on equity and access.  The initiative examines specific
cases of “system interventions” (e.g., policy interventions,
institutional innovations, new approaches to shaping the innovation
process) intended to strengthen the global innovation system, with the
broader aim of developing policy recommendations that draw from, and
are generalizable across, multiple sectors. The findings will
contribute to realizing the potential of science and technology to
meet the most pressing sustainable development challenges. Doctoral,
post-doctoral, and mid-career candidates are encouraged to apply.


Nancy Dickson
Senior Researcher, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-Director, Sustainability Science Program
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Box 81
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
+1-617-496-9469;  nancy_dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/mrcbg/sustsci



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