Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and the Tarragona Center for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT) of the University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain. She received her PhD in Law, specialty in climate change law, and her Master’s Degree on Environmental Law, both from the URV. After completing her PhD, she undertook a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University (South Africa). She has been involved in several research projects and has collaborated with research centers, including the IUCN Environmental Law Centre – ELC (Germany) and the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). She worked as an attorney for public and private institutions and supported NGOs from Spain, Ecuador and Bolivia. She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Her main areas of interest include climate change law and governance, human rights and climate change, climate justice and energy justice, sustainable development goals and the Rights of Nature. She authored and co-authored several academic publications on these themes.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: International, Latin America

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Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Energy Justice, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, International Law, Migration, Socio-Ecological Transformation

Als transdisziplinäre Künstlerin, Pädagogin und Beraterin, die in den Bereichen Video, Installation, Performance und Zusammenarbeit arbeitet, stellt Curry ökologische, wirtschaftliche, politische und geschlechtsspezifische Strukturen in den Mittelpunkt. Currys forschungsbasierte Praxis umrahmt ihre Projekte mit den verschiedenen ortsspezifischen Erzählungen, die unkonventionelle Methoden der Forschung und des Aktivismus miteinander verbinden. Indem sie Projekte in den Bereichen Stadtplanung und Design in Zusammenarbeit mit den Gemeinden, in denen sie arbeitet, entwickelt, entstehen aus den Begegnungen und Interaktionen sehr persönliche, dynamische und zum Nachdenken anregende Erfahrungen und Konzepte.

Laura hat Projekte in Nord- und Südamerika, Europa und der Karibik durchgeführt und ist international ausgestellt worden.

Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, PhD, currently works as a Postdoc at Osnabrück University and co-leads two research projects about soy and beef supply chains from Brazil, with a focus on regulatory governance, corporate accountability and environmental justice. Prominent themes in her research are business and human rights, environmental governance, global supply chains, Indigenous peoples and FPIC, extractive industries and the agribusiness in Latin America.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Brazil, Bolivia, Andean region, Latin America, Europe

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Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global health in Latin America and Europe, including pollution and climate change, disaster response and preparedness, infectious diseases, and the sociopolitical aspects of food.

Mandy also collaborates with the NGO the Ocean and Us, exploring multispecies relations in ocean governance and community-driven and care-ful approaches to conservation and protection of the deep sea and its inhabitants.

In her work Mandy uses and combines collaborative and qualitative methods and often works together with researchers from diverse disciplines, practitioners, civil society organizations, community organizers and activists. She obtained her PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean, Spain, the Netherlands

Professor of society and environment, at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Member of the Academic Group of Gender Studies. Her current research in the Gulf Coast focuses on gender relations in fishermen’s households. Further research focuses on the cultural and social consequences of oil infrastructure development in the Gulf of Mexico, using theory from political ecology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Gulf of Mexico, Southeastern Mexico

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Birgit Hoinle ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Sozialwissenschaften des Agrarbereichs an der Universität Hohenheim. Sie hat an der Universität Hamburg im Fachbereich Geographie promoviert, mit einer Förderung durch die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung im Cluster Transformationsforschung. In ihrem Dissertationsprojekt analysierte sie Prozesse des räumlichen Empowerments in der urbanen und periurbanen Landwirtschaft in Kolumbien. Im Rahmen der Partizipativen Aktionsforschung arbeitete sie mit agrarökologischen Netzwerken und Initiativen Solidarischer Landwirtschaft in Bogotá. In ihrer aktuellen Forschung beschäftigt sie sich mit Ernährungsgerechtigkeit, nachhaltiger Schulversorgung und der Rolle lokaler Initiativen und Ernährungsnetzwerken. Sie ist auch selbst im Aufbau eines Ernährungsrates für die Region Tübingen-Rottenburg engagiert. Birgit Hoinle ist Teil des Netzwerks Kritischer Geographie Lateinamerikas GeoRaizAL (Red de Geografías Críticas de Raíz Latinoamericana) und der Arbeitsgruppe Feministischer Geographien.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Lateinamerika, Süddeutschland

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