Caroline Meier

Caroline Meier is a research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Biosphere Reserves Institute at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany. I study cultural dimensions of human-‘nature’ relations. Of particular interest are power relations within environmental initiatives, how they emerged and how they work. In my PhD project, I investigate how international organisations allowed and still allow for local knowledge to be heard and promoted beyond the local scale by the use of the example of the UNESCO ‘Man and the Biosphere’ programme. The PhD project takes a historical perspective and is localised in the critical thought school and within this, political ecology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Central America