Doctoral position in social indicator development with text-based and spatial data

100%, Zurich, fixed-term

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.

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 ecosystems and human well‑being. It is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together expertise from landscape ecology, physical and human geography, land system science, and computational linguistics, and involves collaborators from ETH Zurich, the Uni...