Student internship natural captial accounts
Preparing the second version of natural capital accounts for the North East Atlantic. OSPAR, the organization that is responsible for the international coordination of environmental policy of the North East Atlantic, adopted the new North East Atlantic Environmental Strategy. They would like to continue to work on natural capital accounting and ecosystem services. Therefore, Rijkswaterstaat as chair of the OSPAR working group on economic and social analyses, is now looking for a student who would like to prepare the second version of the natural capital accounts for the OSPAR area during a 6-month internship.
What are you going to do
An important part of the work would be to extend the list of ecosystem services that are currently described in the first version of the natural capital accounts, so that in the end, the natural capital accounts include the supply and use tables in quantitative and monetary terms (as much as possible) for 17 ecosystem services.
Another important aspect that should be explored in more detail in this second version is the possible use of natural capital accounts to support the various objectives described in the new North East Atlantic Strategy, e.g. in the form of case studies.
This is what we offer
- big challenge in a complex world;
- learn more about ecosystems.
Functie-eisen
- pursue a MSc degree, preferably a combination of environmental economics and marine sciences;
- be familiar with ecosystem services/natural capital accounting;
- have good written and spoken expression skills in English (many consultations in English and the final report must be written in English);
- be able to work independently;
- be flexible and creative;
- be able to work together with colleagues from different backgrounds to arrive at an integrated solution together.