Doctoral Student (Uni Bonn, L. Schipper supervision) at IDOS (German Institute of Development & Sustainability) in the Environmental Governance program within the Klimalog research project. My current research in the coastal region of South India (Tamil Nadu) focuses on coastal adaptation policies/measures in the context of contested sand resources. Applying a political ecology lens, I aim to investigate climate change adaptation regimes within wider socio-political processes that ultimately (re)define who has access over (sand) resources. Further, I am interested in using documentary photography as a means to visually explore contested land- and seascapes where environmental justice concerns are prevalent. 

Senior Researcher am Zentrum für Entwicklung und Umwelt an der Universität Bern. Ihre aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Sustainable Transitions, Just Foof sowie Umwelt- und Konsumverhalten. Weitere Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Umsiedlungen im Rahmen von Naturgefahren und Naturparks.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Schweiz, Brasilien, UK

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Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast-Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Yvonne’s research interests are power asymmetries in access to natural resources. In her current research project she investigates climate change and governance in marine protected areas in the Dutch Caribbean and Indonesia. She is also involved in the DFG-funded project „Ecological and socio-economic functions of low land rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra, Indonesia“, where land and forests were the resources at focus, also in the context of governance and governability. Yvonne is also interested in feminist political ecologies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Dutch Caribbean, Indonesia

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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

Mitwirkung am kollaborativen Forschungsprojekts Careseite zum Thema multispezies Gesundheit und Care im Anthropozän

As a human geographer and postdoctoral lecturer/researcher at the Department of Geography/Kiel, I have been teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice classes as my favourites for more than 10 years.  In my PhD-project, I studied the transformation of traditional marine resource use in Indigenous communities in Nicaragua/Panama, focusing on changing institutions and local knowledges embedded in spiritual worldviews, and on local perceptions of environmental change such as sea-level rise. The communities are entangled in struggles with powerful economic actors and interest groups on different levels of scales, as well as in struggles for recognition and territorial autonomy. In this context, the creation of neo-traditional institutions for resource use and the local discourses on the unity of human-nature relations embedded in wider discourses on Indigeneity have been fascinating. In other small projects I have worked on migration and exclusion of Romanian Roma in Germany/France and on a protest movement against a large gold-mining project in Romania. I have begun to participate in the Enjust network during the time of its founding in 2018.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America/Caribbean, France, Romania, Germany