Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She…
Privatdozent an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Als Sozialgeograph hat er Arbeiten zu sozialer Inklusion und Exklusion, den Urban Studies, praxelogischen Theorien, der Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften und der geographischen Gesundheitsforschung vorgelegt. Er entwickelte das Forschungsprogramm einer transaktionalen Anthropologie, die ein spezifisches Verständnis von Kritik als Mediation ausdrückt. Es eignet sich insbesondere zur Analyse lokaler Machtasymmetrien und Dissensszenarien. Jüngere Arbeiten beschäftigen sich…
Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian and transformation researcher. He is currently substitute Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation at the University of Flensburg. He is author of the award-winning „The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Growth Paradigm“ (Cambridge University Press, 2016), co-edited “Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation” and is co-author of “The Future…
Lizette Grobler is currently a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the interdisciplinary DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She is involved with the Clean Cities and Towns project. Previously she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARPL), at the University of Stellenbosch, where she obtained…
Hali Healy has co-authored and co-ordinated work on two EC funded projects on sustainable development. One of these was EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade, 2011-2014), a project that linked researchers from the sustainability sciences and environmental justice organisations (EJOs). On the basis of this work Hali has published several peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited a book, Ecological Economics…
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…
Sybille Bauriedl is Professor of Integrative Geography at the Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany). She has been researching and teaching sustainable urban development and global environmental conflicts since the 1990s. She is engaged in scientific networks of political ecology and feminist geography and is involved in the right to the city movement. Current research projects deal with local energy transition, platform…
Laura is an Environmental Public Health and Policy Research Associate at the University of Bielefeld and PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. In her dissertation she explores opportunities and challenges of a social-ecological transformation through the lens of intersectional environmental justice. Integrating diverse perspectives including the eco gender Gap, environmental racism, and critiques of Western-centric research epistemologies, Laura…
For the last 10 years Barbara Dombrowski dedicated her work to places affected by climate change. She focused on five relevant and specific climate localities on every continent and their indigenous population: Achuar in Ecuador, Inuit in East Greenland, mongolian Nomads in Desert Gobi, Maasai in the Republic of Tansania and Micronesians in Kiribati. Man-made climate change is not…
Luis Rubén González Márquez is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Merced. Previously, he studied history in the University of El Salvador, and Sociology at the graduate level in Ecuador. He worked as researcher in the National Teachers Training Institute (INFOD) of El Salvador and lecturer at the University of El Salvador. Luis Rubén was…
