Postdoc position at SRC

To be liveable, equitable, resilient and positive contributors to global sustainability, cities need to be understood as complex systems where technological and digital infrastructure supports relate with ecological-biophysical and social-institutional- economic dynamics. However, systems perspectives do not inform how we design and govern our cities and are poorly integrated into “smart” city agendas. For example, there is a lack of understanding and investment in social and ecological/environmental processes and structures that are equally important components of city systems. Additionally, smart cities have so far failed to address nature-based solutions in urban forests, parks, and community gardens and their contribution to human well-being, including stress relief and heat mitigation. The SMARTer Greener Cities project aims to develop and test novel tools and processes for explicitly converging social, ecological, and technological approaches. The convergence of these approaches will promote resilient and equitable urban futures in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and generate new opportunities for transformative change and increasing resilience to extreme events in other Nordic cities. The comprehensive integration of emerging science and practice connected to each of the three couplings(social-ecological (S-E), ecological-technological (E-T), and social-technological (S-T)) into a combined SETS framework is essential for the development of “smarter” (through systems) solutions for resilience and equity. More info at: https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/jobs