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Post-doctoral Research Associate in Population-Environment Interactions

CU Population Center

Institute of Behavioral Science

University of Colorado Boulder

CU Population Center (CUPC) at the University of Colorado Boulder is currently recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in population-environment research, to start August 2019. The initial term of appointment is one year, but reappointment for a second year is possible subject to performance evaluation.

CUPC, housed in the Institute of Behavioral Science, is a national leader in demographic research on population health, environmental demography and migration patterns and processes. This postdoctoral research position builds on CUPC’s strengths in environmental demography, and
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Dr. Lori Hunter had a "Comment" published online this week in Nature Sustainability, entitled “Hardin’s Oversimplification of Population Growth”.  In summary:

“Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons put forward underdeveloped arguments that continue to be reflected in simplistic debates about the drivers and implications of demographic dynamics. It’s time to embrace the complexity that Hardin lacked in order to develop better-informed policy.”

Please read the full article here.  

CU Boulder has been awarded $3 million from the National Science Foundation to use towards a new research facility called CONVERGE. Dr. Lori Peek, a Sociology Professor at the university, will lead the project and serve as the principal investigator for the facility. To learn more about this new addition to CU’s campus, you can read about it here. The DailyCamera has also published an article on CONVERGE and the efforts Lori Peek and her team are making to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. The article can be found here.

CONVERGE is focused on reducing the harm natural
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Congratulations to Rashel Gandhi-Besbes for graduating summa cum laude in Anthropology.  Her Honor's Program advisor was IBS Environment and Society Program Director Terry McCabe.  Rashel's thesis is titled “The Enemies of Conservation: Balancing Humans and Wildlife Within and Surrounding Protected Areas in Tanzania.”  Please read the full article posted in the University of Colorado - Boulder's Arts and Sciences Magazine.  Below are some highlights.  

Gandhi-Besbes launched her research after talking with her advisor, anthropology Professor J. Terrence McCabe, about why conservation efforts are failing. “He helped me turn a deep concern for the planet and all its species into a practical research question,”
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