Marius Hübler is a PhD student within the working group of Silja Klepp at the Geography Department of Kiel University. With an interdisciplinary background in sustainability sciences and international economics, his main research interests are socio-ecological transformation processes, (economic) growth independent development models and structural possibilities to foster pathways towards climate justice and a ‘good life for all’. His PhD project investigates the current and potential role of sufficiency and degrowth approaches in municipal climate protection and regional development within rural regions in Schleswig-Holstein. With long-year experiences in hands-on sustainability education, he is keen in experimenting with transformative, participatory research methods.

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Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and the Tarragona Center for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT) of the University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain. She received her PhD in Law, specialty in climate change law, and her Master’s Degree on Environmental Law, both from the URV. After completing her PhD, she undertook a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University (South Africa). She has been involved in several research projects and has collaborated with research centers, including the IUCN Environmental Law Centre – ELC (Germany) and the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). She worked as an attorney for public and private institutions and supported NGOs from Spain, Ecuador and Bolivia. She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Her main areas of interest include climate change law and governance, human rights and climate change, climate justice and energy justice, sustainable development goals and the Rights of Nature. She authored and co-authored several academic publications on these themes.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: International, Latin America

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Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Energy Justice, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, International Law, Migration, Socio-Ecological Transformation

Sina Trölenberg is a human geographer with emphasis on political ecology, international environmental conflicts, and environmental peacebuilding. She holds a Master’s degree in Human-Environment Interactions (JLU Giessen) and a double Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Spanish Studies. Her regional focus is on Latin America, specifically Colombia, as well as on European climate politics and local protest movements. Currently, she is part of the NGO “Romero Initiative” and working closely with central American human rights activists in the context of a climate justice project carried out in Europe.

Country/Region of Interest/Focus of Research: Latin America, Europe

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Human geographer and currently working as Research Associate at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation focused on the political geographies of the struggles for food sovereignty in Bolivia where he conducted several months of ethnographic research. His main research interests are political geography, political ecology, geographies of food, and geographies of justice, as well as sustainability and transformation research. His current research is centered on conflicting imaginations of sustainability, climate justice, and geographies of democracy in the Anthropocene. Besides his academic activities he was working for WWF Germany and the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Bolivia, South America

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Friedrich Neu is a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Geography of Global Change at Freiburg University, with a teaching focus on climate change adaptation through excursions mainly to Switzerland and Ghana and through seminars scrutinizing adaptation processes in the Global South. His current PhD research is grounded in the interplay of anthropogenic climate change and human-induced environmental change in delta regions and particularly examines the adaptation to subsequent coastal erosion and inundation through state-led resettlement. Therein, a case study in Ghana’s Volta River Delta is used for empirical research. He applies strands of political ecology and justice perspectives to advance the recently created research field of Critical Geography of Resettlement within the spatial boundary of delta regions. Friedrich Neu’s main research area is in sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on formerly Rwanda and currently Ghana.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Coastal Regions, Global South, Ghana

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