I forward the following announcement of a post-doc research position to work on an economic model that uses the Qt libraries. Those interested should contact Philippe Delacote (see the announcement).
/Antonello *Post-doctoral position:* *The long term adequacy in the French Forest Sector Model* *Object: * The Laboratory of Forest Economics (LEF, an INRA- AgroParisTech research unit) is seeking a researcher in economics, for a 12 months post-doctoral position (starting January 2013), to work on the opportunities and risks under climate change (ORACLE project). The objective of this position is to adapt the French Forest Sector Model (FFSM), in order to consistently describe the long term evolutions of the forest sector (changes in forest management, investment, adaptation to climate change) and to run simulations that analyze the adaptation of the forest sector to climate change. The researcher will implement the necessary changes in the model, in collaboration with the FFSM team. As a part of the modeling team, she/he will have to work on the adjustments (investment and land-use change theory), to implement and program them in order for the model to become a long term projection tool (50-100 years time horizon). Then the researcher will have to run long term simulations to assess the potential long term evolution of the French forest sector, as well as the potential forest- agriculture interactions in term of land use. She/he will be in close collaboration with researchers working on the impact of climate change on timber species productivity and probability of presence (from LERFOB, INRA-AgroParisTech research unit). *Context: * FFSM is composed of two interconnected modules: an economic module which represents forest sector in a partial equilibrium framework and a resource module that describes forest resource dynamics. So far, the model is consistent to model the forest sector's evolutions in the relatively short run (15-20 years time horizon) and it has been used to simulate the impacts of climatic and energy public policies on the forest sector. A new module of forest management, including long term investment decisions is actually being built and constitutes the main adjustment of FFSM for long term simulations. *Required skills:* modeling and mathematical optimization, knowledge in economics, C++ and modeling tools, knowledge in forest sector (preferably), team work, multi-disciplinary work, French and/or English language. *FFSM outputs: * Sauquet, A., Lecocq, F., Delacote, P., Caurla, S., Barkaoui, A., Garcia, S. 2011. Estimating Armington elasticities for sawnwood and application to the French Forest Sector Model. Resource and Energy Economics 33(4):771-781 Delacote, P., F. Lecocq. 2011. Fuelwood, timber and climate change: Insights from forest sector modeling–An introduction, Journal of Forest Economics 17(02):107-109. Lecocq F., P. Delacote, S. Caurla, A. Barkaoui, A. Sauquet. 2011. Paying for forest carbon or stimulating fuelwood demand? Insights from the French Forest Sector Model, Journal of Forest Economics 17(2):157-168. Caurla, S., Lecocq, F., Delacote, P. Et Barkoui, A., *"The French Forest Sector Model: version 1.0. Presentation and theoretical foundations<http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/content/download/3310/33596/version/1/file/doc_LEF_n2010-03.pdf> **"*. Cahiers du LEF N°2010-03. Lecocq, F., Caurla, S. Delacote, P., Barkaoui, A. et Sauquet, A., *"Retribution of carbon sinks in forest biomass Vs stimulation of timber consumption: what impacts on the French forest sector?". <https://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/content/download/3259/33087/version/1/file/doc_LEF_n2010-02.pdf>Cahiers du LEF, <http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/cahiers_du_lef>* N°2010-02. Caurla, S., Lecocq, F., Delacote, P. et Barkaoui, A., *"Fuelwood Consumption, Uncertainty over Resources and Public Policies: Which Impacts on the French Forest Sector?"<http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/content/download/3111/31342/version/1/file/2009-03.pdf> *. *Cahiers du LEF <http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/cahiers_du_lef>*, N°2009 -03. *Contact: * Philippe Delacote *pdelacote**@nancy-engref.inra.fr <franck.lec...@nancy-engref.inra.fr>* +33 (0)3 83 39 68 53 -- Antonello Lobianco INRA, Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière 14 Rue Girardet - 54000 Nancy, France Tel: +33.652392310 Email: antonello.lobia...@nancy-engref.inra.fr http://antonello.lobianco.org -- Antonello Lobianco INRA, Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière 14 Rue Girardet - 54000 Nancy, France Tel: +33.652392310 Email: antonello.lobia...@nancy-engref.inra.fr http://antonello.lobianco.org
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