Planning for floods and droughts in the face of climate change – a continuum approach NERC and Environment Agency Policy Placement Fellowship
Closing date: Tuesday, 13th of November 2012
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) research programmes ‘UK Droughts and Water Scarcity’, ‘Flooding from Intense Rainfall’ and the Environment Agency (EA) welcome applications for a Policy Placement Fellow to undertake work considering integrated approaches to managing floods and droughts in a changing climate. This includes both physical measures to manage extremes as well as human responses to coping during events.
The 18 month part-time placement (60%) will be based at EA. Further details on the secondment opportunity and application process are available at the NERC website
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/site/guides/policymakers/documents/floods-droughts-policy-placement.pdf
The fellowship is awarded under the NERC KE Policy Placement scheme which allows researchers involved in environmental science research to work closely with policy-makers within government and other public and third sector organisations in the UK. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/site/guides/policymakers/placements.asp
Deadline of application on Tuesday 13 November 2012.
Interviews on week starting 26 November 2012.
