Wendy Chávez is an economist (Polytechnic School of Guayaquil, Ecuador) and holds a master’s degree in public administration (New York, USA) and a master’s degree in human settlements (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is a junior researcher and PhD student in Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn. Her thesis project is…
Elisa Privitera (Lizzy) is a researcher and practitioner, contributing to spatial environmental justice-related initiatives and with experiences in Italy, Canada, California, and Sweden. Her work draws on participatory planning, environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental justice and South studies. Lizzy has achieved significant academic milestones, including being awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a research exchange at the University of California,…
Isabelle Desportes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, An-Institut at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and lecturer at the RWTH Aachen. She researches the (hidden) politics of disaster prevention and humanitarian response, including in authoritarian conflict settings, and co-coordinates the Centre Marc Bloch’s research group on ‘Environment, Climate, Energy’ since October 2024. Her current research project,…
Friedrich Neu ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Hinsichtlich der Lehre liegt sein Schwerpunkt auf Klimawandelanpassung, welche er in Seminaren zu Anpassungsprozessen im Globalen Süden sowie Exkursionen in die Schweiz oder Ghana thematisiert. Die aktuelle Forschung im Rahmen seiner Dissertation fußt auf dem Zusammenwirken von durch Teile der Menschheit induziertem Klima- und…
Hartmut Fünfgeld ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Geographie des Globalen Wandels am Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg und Adjunct Professor an der School of Global, Urban and Social Studies der RMIT University in Melbourne, Australien. Er erforscht die sozialen und institutionellen Dimensionen von Klimawandelauswirkungen und Anpassung an den Klimawandel, insbesondere im Bereich kommunaler und regionaler Planung….
Irmak Ertör is an assistant professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in…
Dr. Francesca Rosignoli (PhD 2016) is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), member of the CEDAT and coordinator of EJ-ITALY, the first research group made up of women only focusing on Environmental Justice (EJ) in Italy. Her research interests include environmental justice, global environmental governance, climate change, climate-induced migration, and…
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium. Main research focuses on the global and local nexus between the environment and processes of social change, and more specifically in the socio-political dynamics triggered by (international) conditional climate change/development finance instruments, such as carbon and biodiversity markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), and green microfinance….
She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings…
Ich arbeite als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn. Mein Interesse gilt der politischen Ökologie von Naturschutz und Entwicklung, der Klimapolitik und dem landwirtschaftlichen Wandel. Derzeit beschäftige ich mich mit der sozio-ökologischen Transformation der Jakarta-Bucht und der Tideelbe. Meine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in Indonesien, Norddeutschland und Kolumbien. Land/Region des Interesses/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Indonesien, Norddeutschland und Kolumbien Website
