Research Fellow: Climate Justice

  • 30 Nov 2011
  • 11 Dec 2011
  • University of Melbourne
Research Fellow: Climate Justice

The Research Fellow will be employed on the Australian Research Council Funded project entitled ‘Egalitarianism and Climate Justice’. The chief investigators on the project are Prof Garrett Cullity, Dr Iwao Hirose, Dr Simon Keller and Dr Jeremy Moss. The Research Fellow will be based at The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr Jeremy Moss at the Social Justice Initiative.

The aim of the project is to provide a new framework for how to fairly distribute the costs of responding to climate change, and to contribute to the understanding of a range of moral issues associated with climate change. Topics covered by the project include: models of how to distribute the burdens of climate change between and within nations, egalitarian discussions of climate change, understanding climate scepticism and the harms caused by climate change. The incumbent will be expected to contribute to the research of these or other related topics.

This is a two year, non-teaching .6 position. Deadline for applications December 11th 2011.

For further information go to www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au <http://www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au/>
Or contact: Dr Jeremy Moss: jmossATunimelb.edu.au

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