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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Post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and teaching associate at the Master program in Sustainable Development of the same University. Her current research focuses on community forests and historical commons, socially-differentiated vulnerabilities and female cooperatives, in the context of the argan oil boom and climate change. Further research focuses on sustainable agriculture and water governance from a climate change-(sustainable) development nexus perspective. She mobilizes human-environment geography approaches to integrate social sciences theories with concepts from social-ecological systems and climate change research. She participates in research projects that are usually characterized by interdisciplinary questions and transdisciplinary ambitions for participatory research and planning in the field. Eirini Skrimizea’s case studies are located mainly in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Greece, France, Morocco, Central Asia

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Researcher, project manager and architect with an MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure and 13+ years experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors, as a committed advocate for socially justice and sustainable urban development. Her research interests centre on the promotion and defence of the commons, the role of design as an agent of change, housing as a public good (not a commodity), and the socially just distribution of environmental goods and burdens. She is currently researching the integration of environmental justice concerns into the local planning, development and governance of urban green space. In her previous role at a global network of local governments, Eleanor was responsible for steering effective collaborations between researchers and municipal staff working for European cities, with a focus on climate adaptation and building resilient communities.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, in particular Germany

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Bachelor in Sociology, Master in Social Anthropology and PhD student in Social Sciences at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology Western Regional Unit (CIESAS-Occidente) in the research line Environment and Society. His current research discusses, from a political ecology perspective, the unequal production of space in the peripheries, the scarcity and micro-privatization of water and water suffering.

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Ich bin Forschungsstipendiatin und Doktorandin am Biosphere Reserves Institute an der Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde, Deutschland. Ich beschäftige mich mit der kulturellen Dimension verschiedener Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Natur. Von besonderem Interesse sind die Machtverhältnisse innerhalb von Umweltinitiativen, ihre Entstehungs- und Wirkweisen.

In meinem Dissertationsprojekt untersuche ich am Beispiel des UNESCO-Programms „Man and the Biosphere“, inwiefern internationale Organisationen es ermöglichten und immer noch ermöglichen, dass lokales und/oder Indigenes Wissen über den lokalen Rahmen hinaus gehört und gefördert wird. Das Dissertationsprojekt nimmt eine historische Perspektive ein und ist in der Schule des kritischen Denkens und innerhalb dieser in der politischen Ökologie angesiedelt.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Mittelamerika

Dr Tobias Müller is Principal Investigator of the project “Democratic Futures: Climate Change, Coloniality and State Legitimacy”, funded through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2024-2027), and a Fellowship at The New Institute, Hamburg. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Oxford, Munich, Leiden, Yale and Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics and International Studies. His research interests include political and social theory, the politics of climate change, secularism and Islam in Europe, and decolonial and feminist theory. As a political theorist with a preference for ethnographic methods, his current research investigates shifting political visions and strategies across climate movements in the UK, US, Uganda and Kenya. His research has been funded by the European Research Council, the DAAD, the Cambridge Trust and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. His recent work has been published in Political Theory, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Compass, Religion, State and Society and Review of Faith & International Affairs. He has published various op-eds, including in Nature.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: UK, Germany, Uganda, Kenya, US

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