Economist/Social Development Specialist

This specialist carries out socio-economic assessment of the impacts on farming and pastoral communities and others primarily dependent on land and natural resources, and provides broad based scenarios on the implications for food production and ecosystem security in the region as a result of climate change. 

They have extensive experience in the environmental field with increasing responsibilities in developing and managing projects related to climate change, carbon management, and sustainable/renewable energy. 

This field has evolved to reflect the need to link research expertise on human aspects of climate change with those examining climate forecasting, impacts, adaptations and policy issues.  In particular, the socio-economist brings research knowledge to bear on predicting and assessing the human ramifications of biophysical and ecological change that may result from climate change.

Because changing weather patterns have been causing increasing economic losses, it is assumed that the losses are largely due to socio-economic developments, i.e. growing wealth and greater settlement of exposed areas. However, it is also thought that the rise in losses is caused by increasing frequency of severe storms resulting from climate change. 

Therefore, the economist/social development specialist aims to investigate how sensitive the losses are to socio-economic changes and climate changes, and how these factors have evolved over the last 50 years. 

They are looking for answers about the part the factors concerned play in the observed increase in losses. For analysis purposes, storm loss is depicted as a function of the value of material assets affected by the storm (the capital stock) and storm intensity. The findings show the increase in losses due to socio-economic changes to have been approximately three times greater than that due to climate induced changes.

We have been in the forefront recruiting Economist/Social Development Specialists.

On behalf of our clients, we have been a leader recruiting and staffing socio-economists, and thus, certainly know and understand the technical and professional nuances of this vocation are paramount.  This is important because our professional recruiters know the vital role they can have in the construction, engineering and environmental industries.

Sequence is the premier executive recruiting and staffing firm committed to providing employment solutions to these major industries around the world.  Our team of experienced, highly skilled recruiters and staffing professionals has broad industry climate change/air quality analyzing experience.  They know the climate change and socio-economic industry sectors. 

With their expansive industry network, they know where the finest talent is and how to obtain the best and the brightest personnel for your organization.  Our recruiting philosophy, methodology and recruiting practices adhere to the highest standards and ethics in the industry.  It is why Sequence is able to carefully screen and present only the most qualified economist/social development specialist candidates who are highly capable of making a significant difference in your organization. 

Sequence offers a full range of HR services.

Sequence can meet all of your personnel needs, from filling individual socio-economic jobs to recruiting and staffing entire practice groups, for both small firms or for major corporations around the globe. 

We recruit and staff executive, management, administrative and field-level personnel for temporary and temporary-to-permanent jobs, and for direct-hire positions throughout the climate change sector worldwide.  We also offer short and long-term temporary contract placements, outplacement services, long-term recruiting in addition to contracting a full range of HR services. 

With such a diversity of applications, there is a nearly endless list of climate change sub-specialties with which Sequence has experience. Many of these specialties are vital to the clients we serve and require the highly skilled expertise in recruiting and staffing that Sequence provides. 

Links:

• Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (AUS)
• CSIRO Sustainability (AUS)
• CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (AUS)
• CSIRO Land and Water (AUS)
• Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP)
• Geographical Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change
• Global Emerging Infectious Diseases Study
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
• Natural Disaster Hotspots
• POP Planet
• Population-Environment Research Network (PERN)
• Population Reference Bureau
• Socioeconomic Data and Application Center (SEDAC)
• Socio-Economics and the Environment in Discussion (SEED) working paper series
• The Human Footprint/Last of the Wild
• World Data Center