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)…
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…
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…
Sophie Baban hat Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik im Master studiert und sich in ihrer Abschlussarbeit mit einem Konzept der Ecological Economics auseinandergesetzt. Konkret hat sie versucht, einen Schattenpreis für Biodiversität zu entwickeln, um die Auswirkungen des illegalen Elefantenhandels in Afrika ökonomisch abzubilden und auf die damit verbundenen sozialen und ökologischen Konflikte aufmerksam zu machen. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit globalen Gerechtigkeitsfragen hat…
Als transdisziplinäre Künstlerin, Pädagogin und Beraterin, die in den Bereichen Video, Installation, Performance und Zusammenarbeit arbeitet, stellt Curry ökologische, wirtschaftliche, politische und geschlechtsspezifische Strukturen in den Mittelpunkt. Currys forschungsbasierte Praxis umrahmt ihre Projekte mit den verschiedenen ortsspezifischen Erzählungen, die unkonventionelle Methoden der Forschung und des Aktivismus miteinander verbinden. Indem sie Projekte in den Bereichen Stadtplanung und Design in Zusammenarbeit…
Student of the master program “Environmental Management” at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He is currently focusing on socio-technical imaginaries within the hydrogen energy transition in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since Northern Germany has huge potentials for renewable energy production, the construction of a hydrogen energy infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein is on its way. Ravn is researching the social and power relationships between…
Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental…
Ich befinde mich gerade in meinem Master „Sustainability, Society and Environment“ und im Rahmen dessen besuche ich ein Seminar, welches sich mit sozial-ökologischen Konflikten beschäftigt. Insbesondere untersuche ich gerade den Konflikt im Yasuni Nationalpark in Ecuador. Mein Schwerpunkt dabei liegt vor allem auf der Anerkennung des indigenen Wissens. Bei meiner Forschung ziehe ich vor allem politische Ökologie, Extraktivismus und…
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…
