PhD Climate, Cooperation and Community in Asia

Are you a curious, research-driven historian with an interest to collaborate in a team that is interdisciplinary? Then this is the vacancy for you!

Are you a curious, research-driven historian with an interest to collaborate in a team that is interdisciplinary? Do you wish to write a PhD thesis with impact? Then this is the vacancy for you!

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Climate change poses a serious challenge to social cohesion in the coming decades. Extreme weather events, disruptions to food or water supplies, and the pressure to adopt new agricultural practices are already becoming increasingly visible, straining relations between people and decreasing trust in the institutions that guide collective responses. Communities are divided along existing fault lines such as those of neighbourhood, class, gender, and caste, or along new dimensions. Understanding how communities sustain or lose their ability to cooperate under climate induc...