The Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany is pleased to announce a new vacancy for two PhD Fellowship positions in any of the following areas: Quantitative and Computational Urban Studies, Comparative Urban Anthropology, Archaeology, and Sociology, and Urban History and Archaeology. Particular focus will be on the ways in which contemporary urban concerns can draw on emerging archaeological and historical urban datasets and guide research into the urban past and commonalities and differences in urban processes around the world. The Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization studies the long-term interaction between cities (and their non-urban counterparts), land use, and the Earth system. Through state-of-the-art fieldwork, archival research, and laboratory analyses, data compilation, and quantitative modelling it connects observations from the deep past to present planning and future predictions and explore urbanisation as a non-linear, dynamic process, answering questions such as: Are there commonalities, differences, or sustainability predictors for urban phenomena and their associated land uses and Earth system interactions across time and space? Have major political, economic and climatic changes resulted in ‘tipping points’ or path dependencies in urban and land use trajectories?
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