Postdoc: Monetary Valuation of Rangeland Restoration in East Africa

Are you keen to contribute to climate resilient rangelands in East Africa? Do you have experience with choice-modelling? Would you like to do field research in Kenya? Then apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Your function

Kenya faces high drought and land degradation risks. Nature-based solutions such as water bunds restore soil moisture retention capacity, enhance rangeland conditions, and improve livelihoods. Though promising, these solutions need scaling across landscapes and communities to deliver widespread benefits, which in turn requires understanding of adoption behaviour by communities and individuals. 

In this Postdoc you will identify values, barriers and opportunities to adoption of water bunds. You will conduct fieldwork in Kenya and develop a deliberative monetary valuation study, including both discrete choice experiment and deliberative discussions. You will analyse choice data to w...