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…
Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical…
Devrim Eren is a doctoral student in Global and Area Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Asian and African Studies. Her research bridges environmental inequalities, intersectionality and decolonial praxis. Her work, based in the urban peripheries of India, focuses on the entanglement of pre-colonial sociocultures, colonial vestiges and neoliberal influences in shaping waste (picking) as part of the…
Student des Masterstudiengangs „Sustainability, Society and the Environment” in Kiel. Aktuell arbeitet er an seiner Masterthesis über den Infrastrukturausbau für eine grüne Wasserstoffwirtschaft an der Westküste Schleswig-Holsteins. Zuvor hat er über räumliche Konflikte im Rahmen der Hafenerweiterung des Hamburger Hafens gearbeitet. Forschungsinteressen sind Umwelt-/Energie-/Wasserstoffgerechtigkeit, Infrastruktur und politische Ökologie. Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Norddeutschland, insbesondere Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg Link
Doctoral Student (Uni Bonn, L. Schipper supervision) at IDOS (German Institute of Development & Sustainability) in the Environmental Governance program within the Klimalog research project. My current research in the coastal region of South India (Tamil Nadu) focuses on coastal adaptation policies/measures in the context of contested sand resources. Applying a political ecology lens, I aim to investigate climate…
Aspiring environmental researcher/consultant with an inclination in the domain of socio-environmental conflicts and local approaches to sustainability. With an engineering degree in natural resources management and studies in cultural development and sustainable tourism, I have gained professional experience in the field of sustainable community development in south Central America. Currently, I am studying a master in environmental management and…
As a human geographer and postdoctoral lecturer/researcher at the Department of Geography/Kiel, I have been teaching Political Ecology and Environmental Justice classes as my favourites for more than 10 years. In my PhD-project, I studied the transformation of traditional marine resource use in Indigenous communities in Nicaragua/Panama, focusing on changing institutions and local knowledges embedded in spiritual worldviews, and…
