Lizette Grobler is currently a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the interdisciplinary DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She is involved with the Clean Cities and Towns project. Previously she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARPL), at the University of Stellenbosch, where she obtained…
Dr. Liv Yoon’s research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequity, and health, with a focus on community engagement work. As a social scientist, she approaches climate change as a sociopolitical crisis. Her research is focused on taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that…
Hali Healy has co-authored and co-ordinated work on two EC funded projects on sustainable development. One of these was EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade, 2011-2014), a project that linked researchers from the sustainability sciences and environmental justice organisations (EJOs). On the basis of this work Hali has published several peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited a book, Ecological Economics…
Marius Hübler is a PhD student within the working group of Silja Klepp at the Geography Department of Kiel University. With an interdisciplinary background in sustainability sciences and international economics, his main research interests are socio-ecological transformation processes, (economic) growth independent development models and structural possibilities to foster pathways towards climate justice and a ‘good life for all’. His…
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…
Konrad Ott bemüht sich in Forschung und Lehre, die Reflexionskompetenz der Philosophie, Orientierungs- und Begründungsleistungen der Ethik sowie empirische Sachstände im Umweltbereich zu vermitteln. Seine philosophischen Schwerpunkte sind dabei Diskursethik, Umweltethik, Gerechtigkeitstheorien, Nachhaltigkeit, ethische Aspekte des Klimawandels, Naturschutzbegründungen und die normativen Grundlagen der Umweltpolitik. Während seiner akademischen Laufbahn hat Ott überwiegend trans- und interdisziplinär gearbeitet. So hat er sich…
Sybille Bauriedl is Professor of Integrative Geography at the Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany). She has been researching and teaching sustainable urban development and global environmental conflicts since the 1990s. She is engaged in scientific networks of political ecology and feminist geography and is involved in the right to the city movement. Current research projects deal with local energy transition, platform…
For the last 10 years Barbara Dombrowski dedicated her work to places affected by climate change. She focused on five relevant and specific climate localities on every continent and their indigenous population: Achuar in Ecuador, Inuit in East Greenland, mongolian Nomads in Desert Gobi, Maasai in the Republic of Tansania and Micronesians in Kiribati. Man-made climate change is not…
Director and Co-founder of the Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance (Colombia). Member of the Marine Working Group of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW). Member of the Latin American Hub of the Virtual Blue Decade. More than 14 years of experience working on: coastal law, international environmental law, comparative law, environmental migrations, human rights, environmental governance, sustainable development…
Luis Rubén González Márquez is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Merced. Previously, he studied history in the University of El Salvador, and Sociology at the graduate level in Ecuador. He worked as researcher in the National Teachers Training Institute (INFOD) of El Salvador and lecturer at the University of El Salvador. Luis Rubén was…
