With a background in development studies, Nora Katharina Faltmann works on social science perspectives on food and agriculture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‚Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime‘ in which she researches alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. A further research focus lies on the construction of animals-as-food at the intersection of food studies, human-animal relations and environmental justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: (e.g. Mediterranean region, Sicily) Europe, Uganda, Vietnam

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Sophie Baban hat Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik im Master studiert und sich in ihrer Abschlussarbeit mit einem Konzept der Ecological Economics auseinandergesetzt. Konkret hat sie versucht, einen Schattenpreis für Biodiversität zu entwickeln, um die Auswirkungen des illegalen Elefantenhandels in Afrika ökonomisch abzubilden und auf die damit verbundenen sozialen und ökologischen Konflikte aufmerksam zu machen. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit globalen Gerechtigkeitsfragen hat ihr Verständnis für die Zusammenhänge zwischen Umweltveränderungen, Machtverhältnissen und Verteilungskonflikten geschärft. Aktuell arbeitet sie bei der EKSH im Bereich kommunaler Klimaschutz in Schleswig-Holstein. Besonders spannend findet sie dort die Einblicke in regionale Climate Politics: Wie wird Klimapolitik vor Ort gestaltet – und welche sozialgerechten Folgen, Chancen und Herausforderungen bringt sie mit sich?

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Researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre on Chiapas and the Southern Border -CIMSUR- at the National Mexican Autonomous University -UNAM-. Her current research in the transborder region between Chiapas and Guatemala focuses on climate change adaptation, rural sustainable production systems and borderland issues. She integrates political ecology and borderland studies into the field of climate change adaptation. Further research focuses on the migration and climate change nexus at the Mexican southern border. Celia Ruiz de Oña´s main research areas are in Chiapas-Guatemala borderland regions. She has been collaborating with ENJUST members since 2018.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin American, Transboundary area between Chiapas-Guatemala.

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Silke Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the PI of the research project “Space, Agency and Climate Change in a Contested Urban Landscape: Exploring Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”, funded by the Leading House of the Latin American Region, Switzerland. She integrates critical urban theory approaches with political ecology and is passionate about the untold stories within environmental politics. Her recent ethnographic focus is on wetlands and the entanglements of race, ecology and socio-spatial inequalities in mangrove restoration in Cartagena de Indias, a city on the Colombian Caribbean coast.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cartagena de Indias, Colombian Caribbean and Goma, Eastern DR Congo

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Isabelle Desportes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, An-Institut at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and lecturer at the RWTH Aachen. She researches the (hidden) politics of disaster prevention and humanitarian response, including in authoritarian conflict settings, and co-coordinates the Centre Marc Bloch’s research group on ‘Environment, Climate, Energy’ since October 2024.

Her current research project, DisasterLobby, is situated at the intersection of critical disaster studies and socio-ecological transformation studies. It approaches disasters as symptoms of our currently untenable societies and focuses on how diverse actors draw back on recent fires in Brandenburg (Germany) and close to Bordeaux (France) to advance their interests.

Isabelle obtained her PhD at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, in November 2020. Past academic but also non-academic work stations have been the Disaster Research Unit at the Freie Universität Berlin, the  Universities of Amsterdam and Cape Town, the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent in Geneva and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre in Addis Abeba.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, France, Germany

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