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. Fernanda Figueroa is a Tenured Full-Time Professor at Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her research focuses on the social and political processes linked to environmental degradation and conservation. From political ecology and socio-environmental justice frameworks, she has examined conservation in protected areas and landscape transformations. She leads the Socio-Environmental Analysis Working Group at Facultad de…
Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens…
I’m a human geographer interested in studying the socio-environmental injustices that emerge at different territorial scales in the configuration of food value chains and carbon markets. In particular, I’m interested in learning how coastal communities develop social innovations to respond to climate change scenarios and the global environmental crisis. My research lies at the intersections of Political Ecology, Political…
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 am a postdoctoral researcher working on the politics of knowledge and power in global environmental governance. My work examines how legitimacy, inclusivity, and justice are negotiated within the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement and in emerging review mechanisms under the Rio Conventions, drawing on Science and Technology Studies, political sociology, and sustainability studies. I am part of…
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…
Claudia Horn ist promovierte Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Dozentin für Politische Ökonomie am King’s College London. Sie forscht zu globaler Ungleichheit, Klimagerechtigkeit, Lateinamerika, Umwelt- und Entwicklungsfinanzierung. Ihr Buch „Klimahilfe mit Nebenwirkungen. Kooperation und Konflikt im Namen des Amazonas-Schutzes“ untersucht internationale Klimafinanzierung für Waldschutz in Brasilien. Ihr zweites Buch betrachtet die ökologische Kapitalismuskritik von Rosa Luxemburg. Zwischen 2018 und 2023 lebte sie…
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…
Ben Glasson is an interdisciplinary researcher of climate change, subjectivity and narrative, with a background in political theory and cultural studies. His research explores the implications of climate apathy, greenwashing, environmental hypocrisy and corporate environmentalism. He has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of Political Ideologies, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Link Link Country/Region…
