Rebecca Bratspies is a Law Professor at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, and the founding Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform. She is an internationally recognized expert on environmental justice, food justice, and the human right to a healthy environment. Professor Bratspies has written scores of law review articles, op-eds, and other publications….
Timothy Adams (Dr. PhD) is Postdoctoral researcher of Human Geography in commercial investments of natural resources, institutional change and innovations, inclusive businesses, gender, and resource governance (e.g., land, water, and forest etc.) at the University of Bern, Institute of geography and member of Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). His current research in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on institutional innovations…
PhD researcher at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her PhD investigates the role of social innovation and gender in attaining sustainable adaptation in coastal social-ecological systems in Bangladesh. Her research covers multi-disciplinary issues connected to gender and feminist theories. Some of the themes she works with are gendered policy, land rights, migration, religion,…
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…
Elisa Privitera (Lizzy) is a researcher and practitioner, contributing to spatial environmental justice-related initiatives and with experiences in Italy, Canada, California, and Sweden. Her work draws on participatory planning, environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental justice and South studies. Lizzy has achieved significant academic milestones, including being awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a research exchange at the University of California,…
Senior Researcher in Integrative Geography at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on agroecological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa with a critical perspective and an emphasis on social justice aspects. His research has the overall objective of integrating social-ecological thinking and the idea of justice. This includes conceptual and empirical work looking at environmental justice issues in telecoupled…
Irmak Ertör is an assistant professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in…
Mitglied des interdisziplinären FWF Zukunftskollegs „Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime” an der Universität Innsbruck. Sein Forschungsfokus liegt auf (i) Alternativen im WTO-zentrierten Nahrungsmittelsystem (unter Einbeziehung von Werten wie Solidarität und Vertrauen), (ii) Methodenentwicklung im Bereich der Viszeralität zur Verbindung traditioneller Methoden mit mehr-als-rationalen/multisensorischen Ansätzen, (iii) Re-Konzeptualisierung von Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen durch, trotz, und über…
Judith Bopp ist Postdoktorandin am Institut für Strukturforschung und Planung in agrarischen Intensivgebieten (ISPA) der Universität Vechta. In ihrem aktuellen Projekt arbeitet sie zu lokalem Wissen in kleinbäuerlichen Praktiken, und zu nachhaltigen Anbaumethoden, die etwa Bio-Anbau, natural farming oder agroforstwirtschaftliche Ansätze einbeziehen. Das Projekt erarbeitet, welche Relevanz diesen Praktiken in alternativen livelihood-Strategien bäuerlicher Haushalte und in ihren Anpassungstrategien an klimabezogene ökologische Veränderungen zukommt. Zuvor beschäftigte sich Judith…
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…
