Michael is a critical geographer who studies the intersecting social, economic and political inequalities caused by the impacts of, and our responses to, climate change. His research is informed by critical theory and interrogates the concepts of climate justice, adaptation, resilience and intersectionality. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Climate Justice and Urban Sustainability at the Department of Environmental Studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry in Syracuse, NY. He obtained his PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, UK.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Sub-Saharan Africa (Rwanda, Malawi, and São Tomé & Príncipe, in particular), North America

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Student of the master program “Environmental Management” at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He is currently focusing on socio-technical imaginaries within the hydrogen energy transition in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since Northern Germany has huge potentials for renewable energy production, the construction of a hydrogen energy infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein is on its way. Ravn is researching the social and power relationships between the hydrogen transition expert-groups and the locally affected society with a special interest on the hydrogen infrastructure project “Westküste100” in Heide.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: France, Thailand, Germany/Schleswig-Holstein, STS research in hydrogen technologies

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Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Energy Justice, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Marine Social Science, Migration, Mobility Concepts, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning

Dr. Liv Yoon’s research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequity, and health, with a focus on community engagement work. As a social scientist, she approaches climate change as a sociopolitical crisis. Her research is focused on taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that both led to, and are exacerbated by, the climate crisis.

Dr. Yoon obtained her Ph.D. at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in Sociocultural Kinesiology. Her training in socio-cultural studies informs her to think about bodies in sociopolitical context. Applied to climate change, this means thinking about how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and in turn, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related risks and pollution.

She is a Fellow with the New York City Panel on Climate Change – Health Working Group, a member of the Community Engagement Core at the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, and member of Columbia University’s Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities (EJCJC).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: North America (but not limited to it)

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Associate Professor at the Center of Research in Environmental Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research interests revolve around community-based natural resource management, conservation and territorial defense, with a particular focus on protected areas inhabited by indigenous / local communities that are engaged in struggles for environmental justice. He’s interested in collaborative scientific approaches that trigger transdisciplinary processes of co-production of environmental knowledge, social learning and grassroots innovation, and their potential in such struggles for imagining and enacting transformations toward just sustainabilities. A main area of interest has been the analysis of such processes in community environmental monitoring using technologies (e.g., drones, kits for in situ water quality analysis). His main focal areas of interest are water, forests and food systems.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia

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Dr. Francesca Rosignoli (PhD 2016) is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), member of the CEDAT and coordinator of EJ-ITALY, the first research group made up of women only focusing on Environmental Justice (EJ) in Italy. Her research interests include environmental justice, global environmental governance, climate change, climate-induced migration, and collective capabilities. Her current research focuses on the role of gender and justice in climate-induced migration. Her latest monograph, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees, was published by Routledge in May 2022. She is co-editor of the volumes ‘Climate Change Integration in the Multilevel Governance of Italy and Austria’ (Brill 2022) and ‘Racism, Environment, Health. Environmental Racism and Health Inequalities’ (PM 2022).

Environmental Research in the Human Science area

Environmental Justice Institute

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