Your research will be part of the Horizon Europe Planet 4B Project, which aims at understanding how factors such as gender, religion, ethnicity, race, age, culture, disability, values, norms and behaviour intersect and are implicated in biodiversity-relevant decision-making across different sectors, scales and settings. The project also aims at channelling this understanding into stakeholder interventions, elucidating transformative pathways and policy recommendations. The ultimate goal is the prioritisation of biodiversity and halting and reverting biodiversity loss.

Biodiversity is fundamental to humans and non-humans and to the Earth's integrity. Despite scientific evidence of the importance of the diversity of life for ecosystems, food security, health and well-being, and calls to halt biodiversity loss, there is a huge gap between the scale of the problem and the responses to it. Accelerated biodiversity loss is unprecedented, not only because of its pace and scale, but mainly and foremost due to its anthropogenic drivers and potential catastrophic consequences Much is needed to maintain the diversity of life on Earth. However, what can be seen is the lack of biodiversity prioritisation in the political agenda, private enterprises and society's everyday behaviour. We need to have a better understanding of how values, norms and behaviour are intertwined with decision-making by diverse actors, across sectors and scales. Besides, we are well aware of power imbalances and inequities within and across countries, so transformation requires that politics and plural values of human-nature relations: i.e. the diversity of knowledges, beliefs, values, worldviews and aspirations entrenched in people-nature relationships are brought to the fore, along with the role of intersectionality of social characteristics.

Understanding theories of decision-making and intersectionality is one of the project's research goals, particularly with a view to create a transdisciplinary framework of analysis. Your research will help to build this transdisciplinary diagnostic framework of theories of behaviour, decision-making and change by identifying and listing all the ins and outs and facilitating dialogue among consortium disciplines and partners. For that, you will need to identify, systematise and discuss the main theories, concepts and debates in different disciplines, conducting systematic reviews in diverse sets of literatures, preferably using bibliometric and meta-analyses. Moreover, you will conduct your own extensive case study related to agricultural trade between Brazil and the EU/Netherlands and its impacts on biodiversity and on indigenous peoples and traditional communities.