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 postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Politics and Research (CIPR). He recently earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Merced. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of El Salvador (UES), and a M.A. in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador). Luis…
Politikwissenschaftler mit Schwerpunkt Politische Ökologie und Scholar-Activism am Lehrstuhl für Globale Klimapolitik an der Universität Hamburg und Mitglied der Forschungsgruppe „GLOCALPOWER – Funds, Tools and Networks for an African Energy Transition“. Meine Forschungsinteressen sind sozial-ökologische Transformation, Transformationskonflikte sowie Energie- und Klimagerechtigkeit. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Rolle von sozialen Bewegungen und Gewerkschaften in sozial-ökoloischen Transformationsprozessen. Land/Interessenregion/Forschungsschwerpunkt: Deutschland, Südafrika…
Daniel Bendix is Professor for Global Development at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany. His research focuses on colonial power in development policy, the politics of reproductive health and population, postcolonial critique of development in the North and transnational activism against land grabbing. He is a member of the transnational network Afrique-Europe-Interact and of glokal, a Berlin-based association for postcolonial education,…
Senior Researcher at the artec Sustainability Research Center, Universität Bremen. Her current research focuses on multiple and multiscale (in-)justices in energy transitions, in particular hydrogen transitions. Further research focuses on sustainable regional and urban development, sustainable mobility, environmental governance, adaptation to climate change and participation. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, Europe, Belize, Kenia, soon (in the context of hydrogen…
I am an experienced urban sustainability researcher who helps policymakers make evidence-based and equity-focused decisions. Over the past seven years at the World Resources Institute, I have authored almost 20 research publications using both qualitative and quantitative methods. My main areas of expertise are urban policy and planning, equity analysis of environmental policies, multi-level governance, just transitions, mobility, and…
Senior Researcher in Integrative Geography at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on agroecological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa with a critical perspective and an emphasis on social justice aspects. His research has the overall objective of integrating social-ecological thinking and the idea of justice. This includes conceptual and empirical work looking at environmental justice issues in telecoupled…
Sören Weißermel ist Humangeograph und Postdoktorand am Geographischen Institut der Universität Kiel. Interessenschwerpunkte sind Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen, Kritische Entwicklungsforschung, Stadtforschung und städtische Klimapolitik. In seinem Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigte er sich mit Prozessen der Enteignung und Prekarisierung marginalisierter und invisibilisierter Menschen und Lebensformen im Zusammenhang mit dem Bau des Kraftwerks Belo Monte (Brasilien) und ihrem Kampf um Anerkennung und (Umwelt-)Gerechtigkeit. In seinem aktuellen…
Ich bin Forschungsstipendiatin und Doktorandin am Biosphere Reserves Institute an der Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde, Deutschland. Ich beschäftige mich mit der kulturellen Dimension verschiedener Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Natur. Von besonderem Interesse sind die Machtverhältnisse innerhalb von Umweltinitiativen, ihre Entstehungs- und Wirkweisen. In meinem Dissertationsprojekt untersuche ich am Beispiel des UNESCO-Programms „Man and the Biosphere“, inwiefern internationale Organisationen…
