The Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, ETH Zurich, is seeking a highly motivated doctoral researcher (100%) to join the project DEPOPLAND: Drivers and trajectories of social-ecological change in depopulating rural landscapes, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Project background

Rural depopulation is emerging as one of the defining global transformations of the 21st century, with profound consequences for both ecosystems and human well-being. The DEPOPLAND project aims to provide the first systematic, global‑scale analysis of ecological and social dynamics in depopulating rural landscapes, identifying trajectories of change and their underlying drivers. To do so, the project pioneers an integrated and data‑driven approach to analysing social‑ecological systems, combining diverse data sources and advanced computational methods to uncover long‑term dynamics of ecosys...