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Mandy Geise

Position: Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: mandygeise@protonmail.com
Categories: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Food Justice, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, International Law, Political Ecology, Social Movements, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Water Justice
Location: Germany, Netherlands
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.  Links Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean, Spain, the Netherlands

Mandy Geise

Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Researcher

Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently...

Matthias Schmelzer

Position: Transformation Researcher, Flensburg
Email: matthias.schmelzer@uni-flensburg.de
Categories: Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Migration, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Social Movements, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Location: Flensburg, Germany
Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian and transformation researcher. He is currently substitute Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation at the University of Flensburg. He is author of the award-winning „The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Growth Paradigm“ (Cambridge University Press, 2016), co-edited “Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation” and is co-author of “The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism” (Verso, 2022). His main interests include social-ecological transformation, the global history of capitalism, social and environmental history, climate catastrophe, and alternative economics.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: OECD, global North

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Matthias Schmelzer

Transformation Researcher, Flensburg

Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian and transformation researcher. He...

Silja Klepp

Position: Professor of Human Geography
Email: klepp@geographie.uni-kiel.de
Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Legal Geographies, Marine Social Science, Migration
Location: Kiel, Germany

Professorin für Humangeografie in Küsten- und Meeresgebieten

Ihre aktuelle Forschung im zentralen Pazifik beschäftigt sich mit den Themen Klimawandelanpassung, Klimamobilität und Klimagerechtigkeit. Sie integriert postkoloniale Perspektiven und kritische Theorien in das Forschungsfeld Klimawandelanpassung. Weitere Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Mensch-Umweltbeziehungen im Anthropozän, Flucht und Migration sowie EU-Grenzregime. Silja Klepp forscht vor allem in Fidschi und Kiribati sowie im Mittelmeerraum.

Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Fidschi, Kiribati und Mittelmeerraum

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Silja Klepp

Professor of Human Geography

Professorin für Humangeografie in Küsten- und Meeresgebieten Ihre aktuelle Forschung...

Arianna Porrone

Position: PhD Student
Email: a.porrone@unimc.it
Categories: Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism
Location: Macerata, Italy

Arianna Porrone is a PhD student in Global Studies. Justice, Rights, Politics, at the Department of political science, communication and international relations of the University of Macerata, Italy. Awarded with a One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates (2020-2021) she has joined the research group Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas of Kiel University as a visiting researcher.
Her main research interests are political ecology, environmental justice, storytelling and the environmental humanities as well ecofeminisms and feminist critical theories. Her Ph.D research focuses on understanding power and gender dynamics in knowledge creation within the current international environmental governance realm and aims at exploring ontological pluralism as a way forward able to reconcile human and more-than-human concerns.

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Arianna Porrone

PhD Student

Arianna Porrone is a PhD student in Global Studies. Justice,...

Thea Wiesli

Position: Sociologist
Email: thea.wiesli@unibe.ch
Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, Degrowth, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Location: Bern, Switzerland

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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Thea Wiesli

Sociologist

Senior Researcher am Zentrum für Entwicklung und Umwelt an der...

Leah Lazer

Position: sustainability researcher
Categories: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Energy Justice, Energy Vulnerability, Food Justice, Gender and Development, Indigenous Environmental Justice, Indigenous People and Local Communities, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, International Law, Legal Geographies, Marine Social Science, Migration, Mobility Concepts, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Public Health, Science and Technology Studies, Science Communication, Social Movements, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning, Water Justice
Location: Freiburg, Germany
I am an experienced urban sustainability researcher who helps policymakers make evidence-based and equity-focused decisions. Over the past seven years at the World Resources Institute, I have authored almost 20 research publications using both qualitative and quantitative methods. My main areas of expertise are urban policy and planning, equity analysis of environmental policies, multi-level governance, just transitions, mobility, and circular economy. My work has been formally presented at the UN Climate Action Summit and COP26, included as a chapter in The Climate City (from Wiley Publishing), and cited in the Wall Street Journal, Time, WIRED, and The Guardian. I hold an M.Sc. in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from the London School of Economics (2017) and a B.A. in Food System Studies from Tufts University (2014). I lived in Washington DC for the past five years before moving to Freiburg, Germany in August 2024. On a personal note, I used to run a vegan micro-bakery and I participated in a month-long artist residency in rural Colombia last fall.

Leah Lazer

sustainability researcher

I am an experienced urban sustainability researcher who helps policymakers...

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