I am an environmental sociologist and political ecologist with research interests in forests, conservation, socio-ecological conflicts, environmental justice, and governance. My work combines qualitative and ethnographic methods to explore how culturally situated practices related to forests, trees, and other plants shape dynamics of conflict, care, and coexistance. I am currently working in the Tampere Peace Research Institute for the…
Dr Jebby Romanus Gonza is a Legal Counsel at the Office of the Secretary to the Council of the University of Dodoma, Tanzania. She has conducted Postdoctoral research in aspects of International Environmental Law and has Pursued a PhD in Public International Law (Regional Economic Integration Law) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She holds an LLB and LLM degree from…
Professor Prakash C. Tiwari, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Kumaun University, Nainital, India, is a distinguished authority on Mountain Natural Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation. He currently serves as Expert Consultant for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Spring Assessment Outlook at ICIMOD, Kathmandu, while also holding key international roles as Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project (ESG)…
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…
An Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Angela Antle was the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU and is a member of NMBU Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her current research focuses on the role of political rhetoric in climate obstruction. She…
Dr. Rosa Felicitas Philipp ist Postdoktorandin in der Arbeitsgruppe Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie an der Universität Heidelberg. Ihren PhD erwarb sie an der Universität Bern mit der Dissertation „Defensa de la vida (engl. Defence of Life): Infrastructured Bodies, Care and Resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec“. Darin untersuchte sie den Widerstand indigener Frauen gegen ein Mega-Infrastrukturprojekt im Süden Mexikos. Ihre…
I’m a Mexican from the Global South, but with a broader context from the Global North as well. I work in social innovation and addressing root causes. My main focus is on nature-based social innovation,with a focus on the health, well-being, and cohesion of people and the planet because we are also nature. Country/Region of interest/research focus:Nature Based Social…
Researcher in the Department of Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg and is a PhD candidate at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. She is currently working on the North Sea Region Interreg research project DARKER SKY. The project’s overall aim is to reduce light pollution, thereby increasing biodiversity and ecological connectivity in the North Sea Region. Within the…
Eduardo Damián Valdez is originally from and currently living in Monterrey, in the northeastern region of Mexico. He actively participate in social movements with an eco-anarchist and cooperative focus. His professional and hands-on experience has centered on designing and managing socio-environmental projects rooted in climate justice, eco-urbanism, bio-architecture, and ecopsychology. He is the founder of Colectivo Zenderio (since 2019),…
Christian Buske holds a degree in biology and a master’s degree in administrative sciences and worked in environmental protection and nature conservation before becoming head of management training in the education sector in Schleswig-Holstein. He has been working as a ministerial councilor for the state government in Schleswig-Holstein since 2018. He is the editor of the blog The Future…
