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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Anthropologist (PUJ, Colombia) with an MSc in Rural Development (PUJ, Colombia) and a PhD in Development Studies (Institute of Development Policy-IOB, University of Antwerp). He holds a postdoctoral fellowship at IOB-UAntwerp and is a research associate at the Center for Alternatives to Development-CEALDES in Colombia (https://oad-cealdes.org/). He works on transformative and collaborative research with rural communities, exploring struggles for autonomy and social-ecological justice within conservation-related conflicts from a political ecological perspective, with a particular focus on the Colombian Andes and Amazon regions.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia & Latin America

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Hali Healy has co-authored and co-ordinated work on two EC funded projects on sustainable development. One of these was EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade, 2011-2014), a project that linked researchers from the sustainability sciences and environmental justice organisations (EJOs). On the basis of this work Hali has published several peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited a book, Ecological Economics from the Ground Up (Routledge, 2013). In 2016 Hali moved to South Africa to take up lecturing post at the University of Johannesburg in the department of Anthropology and Development studies. Since then, much of her research has focused on environmental injustice, post and decoloniality, commons resource management and the greening of the South African economy.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: South Africa, Global South, Europe

Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical Cooperation. Thomas is particularly interested in the construction of competing ecological visions and how they become vehicles of power struggles between actors in conflict. He explores how those ecological discourses emerge, evolve and are utilised in the context of the rise of environmental issues in the international, national and local political agendas. Thomas‘s current research focuses on the Zapatista conflict in the State of Chiapas (Mexico).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Environmental discourse in Chiapas, Mexico, and more broadly in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East

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Simon Radtke studiert im Masterstudiengang Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung an der Universität Kiel und beschäftigt sich mit Fragen der Wohnungspolitik in Zeiten des Neoliberalismus und dem Recht auf Stadt / Recht auf Wohnen.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Indien, Norddeutschland, Ruhrgebiet

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Mein aktueller Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt bei Planetarer Gesundheit. In meiner Masterarbeit werde ich die Deutschsprachige Debatte um Planetary Health mit besonderem Fokus auf Klimagerechtigkeit und Transformationsmodelle analysieren. Ich versuche postkoloniale, diskriminierungssensible und Feministische Denkweisen in mein Forschen und Schreiben miteinzubeziehen. More-than-human ecologies, multispecies Ethnography und Medical Anthropology sowie Multimodalität und Wissenschaftskommunikation liegen ebenso in meinem Interessensgebiet.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: München und Umgebung

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