Postdoctoral Position in Ecological Economics | BC3

Isecoeco; País Vasco; Presencial; EUR 35.000 - 52.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) invites applications for a Postdoctoral position in ecological economics to support the Horizon Europe RELATE4NATURE project. The work will develop ecological-economic models that integrate relational values into decision-making across biodiversity restoration, agriculture, renewable energy, planning, nature management, climate resilience and community wellbeing.

Join BC3 to contribute to understanding interactions between climate, energy, biodiversity, and

Descripción del empleo

Postdoctoral Position in Ecological Economics | BC3

• September 21, 2026

Summary

Postdoctoral position in ecological economics at the Basque Centre for Climate Change supporting the Horizon Europe RELATE4NATURE project. The research will develop ecological-economic models integrating relational values into decision-making across biodiversity restoration, agriculture, renewable energy, planning, nature management, climate resilience, and community wellbeing.

Postdoctoral position in ecological economics

Postdoc position in ecological economics at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) to support the new Horizon Europe project RELATE4NATURE (“Relational Biodiversity Economics Approach for Assessing, Weaving and Scaling Socio‑Economic Models for Biodiversity Restoration, and Community Resilience to Climate Change and Wellbeing”).

Join us as a Postdoc at BC3 and contribute to the understanding of the interactions between climate, energy, biodiversity, agri-environmental policy. As Postdoc you will contribute to the further development of existing ecological-economic models.

About RELATE4NATURE

The aim of RELATE4NATURE is to ensure that the values of nature are better reflected in societal decision-making. Today, economic considerations often dominate, while values such as wellbeing, justice and people’s relationships with nature receive less attention. The postdoc project will develop and test new relational economic models for integrating these values into decision-making in areas such as agriculture, renewable energy development, urban and regional planning, and nature management.

RELATE4NATURE will contribute to understand how to drive systemic and sustained transformations in socio-economic systems, ecological governance, and human-nature relations to secure a biodiversity-positive, climate resilient, and socially just future. The project responds to the global challenge of a lack of socio-economic models for recognising and embedding relational values (e.g. wellbeing, social cohesion, justice) alongside instrumental and intrinsic values in public and private decision-making.

The project provides synthesised and prioritised tools, methods and pathways to public and private decision-makers for assessing and scaling alternative socio-economic models. RELATE4NATURE co-develops, co-pilots and co-evaluates innovative combinations of established and alternative models tailored to the impact areas of agriculture and rewilding, green energy and biodiversity, nature-positive urban and regional planning, and ecological guardianship.