Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental causes. He is part of the Conflict, Region and Rural Societies research group ascribed to the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies, member of the Collective for the Protection of the Province of Sugamuxi since 2012, member of the Cartographic Collective of the Global South since 2022, founder and coordinator of the Latin American Network for Community Use of Drones, and member of the Latin American Network for the Defense of Biocultural Heritage.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America

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Hartmut Fünfgeld ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Geographie des Globalen Wandels am Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg und Adjunct Professor an der School of Global, Urban and Social Studies der RMIT University in Melbourne, Australien. Er erforscht die sozialen und institutionellen Dimensionen von Klimawandelauswirkungen und Anpassung an den Klimawandel, insbesondere im Bereich kommunaler und regionaler Planung. Weitere Forschungsgebiete sind gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse und soziale Gerechtigkeit im Kontext des globalen Wandels. Hartmut wurde im Jahr 2006 an der Universität Heidelberg in Humangeographie promoviert. Er verfügt über mehr als 15 Jahre Arbeitserfahrung in Forschung, Lehre und Beratung in Europa, Ozeanien, Afrika, und Asien.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Australien und Süddeutschland

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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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Forscherin in der Nachwuchsgruppe Bioökonomie und soziale Ungleichheiten. Verflechtungen und Wechselbeziehungen im Bioenergie-Sektor aus transnationaler Perspektive an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Ihre aktuelle Forschung zu Argentinien und Europa beschäftigt sich mit sozial-ökologischen Konflikten, Green Grabbing und Strategien der sozial-ökologischen Transformation. Sie verortet sich in der Politischen Ökologie, post- und dekolonialen Perspektiven und der Transnationalismus Debatte. Weitere Forschungsschwerpunkte sind globale soziale Ungleichheiten, Entwicklungstheorie, Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik, Gender und Intersektionalität sowie soziale Bewegungen. Ihre Forschungsregionen liegen in Lateinamerika, zuletzt v.a. in Argentinien und Nicaragua.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Lateinamerika, insb. Argentinien und Nicaragua

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PhD candidate in the artec Sustainability Research Center in University of Bremen, Germany. Currently working within the Humboldt Tipping Project (WP7). She is interested in the political ecology of coastal activities (fisheries along the value chain) within extractive landscapes. She works on coastal-marine resource governance, and its consequences on gendered power dynamics happening in socioecological conflicts, with a focus on everyday resistance and socioenvironmental justice. Throughout the last years, her work has been based on small-scale fisheries communities in coastal Ecuador and Peru, and slowly been developing in the direction of her home-region, Galicia, Spain.

Country/Region of interest/research focus:coastal Peru, coastal Ecuador, Galicia (Spain)

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