Jordan is a master’s student in Sustainability, Society, and the Environment at CAU Kiel and part of the coordination team of the EnJust Network. His academic background is in the Social Sciences in the US with a passion for sustainability, environmental justice, and urban planning. His current research topics focus primarily on Participatory Democracy in Mobility Planning in Kiel,…
Syed Muhammad Jaffar Abbas is a Research Associate at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), where he works within the Urban Futures and Sustainability Transformation team. Originally from Pakistan, Jaffar holds a Master’s in Sustainability, Society & the Environment (SSE) from the University of Kiel. His research focuses on climate justice, climate mobility, loss…
Maximilian Benner is an economist and economic geographer with a habilitation degree (venia docendi) in human geography. As senior scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Vienna and non-tenured associate professor (“Privatdozent”) at the University of Klagenfurt, he focuses on innovation-based regional development and its impacts in terms of environmental sustainability, social justice, and inclusiveness. Empirically, he is…
Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning and a member of the Center for Urban Research and the Social Equity Research Center at RMIT University Melbourne. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, social equity and justice, urban sustainability and land-use planning and the implications for policy and governance particularly at the local and regional scale. She has worked…
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…
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…
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
For over two decades, I’ve been researching and teaching in the areas of energy system transformation, climate change adaptation, sustainable urban and regional development, and stakeholder and citizen participation. My work is deeply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, shaped by close collaboration with civil society, private companies, and public institutions. Since 2018, I’ve been a senior researcher at artec – the…
Elisa (Lizzy) Privitera is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with expertise in community urban planning, environmental justice, environmental humanities, and political ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough. At the same university, she co-led the Just Transitions in Action…
Sören Weißermel ist Kulturgeograf und Postdoktorand am Institut für Geographie der Universität Kiel. Seine Forschung konzentriert sich auf die räumliche Aushandlung politischer Konflikte im Kontext machtgeladener Beziehungen zwischen Gesellschaft und Natur. In seiner Doktorarbeit untersuchte er die Prozesse der Enteignung und Prekarisierung marginalisierter und unsichtbar gemachter Menschen und Lebensformen im Zusammenhang mit dem Bau des Belo-Monte-Kraftwerks (Brasilien) sowie deren…
