Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, PhD, currently works as a Postdoc at Osnabrück University and co-leads two research projects about soy and beef supply chains from Brazil, with a focus on regulatory governance, corporate accountability and environmental justice. Prominent themes in her research are business and human rights, environmental governance, global supply chains, Indigenous peoples and FPIC, extractive industries and the agribusiness in Latin America.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Brazil, Bolivia, Andean region, Latin America, Europe

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Konrad Ott endeavours in research and teaching to impart the competence of philosophical reflection, the achievements of ethical justification and orientation, such as empirical facts in the environmental field. His philosophical focus is on discourse ethics, environmental ethics, theories of justice, sustainability, ethical aspects of climate change, nature conservation reasons and the normative foundations of environmental policy. During his academic career, Ott worked mainly in a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner. Between 2012 and 2018 he was involved in a number of research networks at the University of Kiel, for example in the excellence initiatives «Future Ocean Sustainability» and «Roots«. Konrad Ott’s current research interests concern a socio-theoretical foundation of environmental ethics and sustainability.

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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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With a background in development studies, Nora Katharina Faltmann works on social science perspectives on food and agriculture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime’ in which she researches alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. A further research focus lies on the construction of animals-as-food at the intersection of food studies, human-animal relations and environmental justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: (e.g. Mediterranean region, Sicily) Europe, Uganda, Vietnam

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{:en}Mirja Schoderer is a transdisciplinary researcher with expertise in environmental justice, political ecology, water, mining and conservation. She is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she explores the uneven green transition, focusing on the extraction of critical raw materials and on how frontline communities experience and conceptualize extraction that takes place under the green transition paradigm. Her research centers lived experiences and creative methods and explores options to integrate plural knowledges and ontologies into public decision-making, for which she also applies context-sensitive synthesis methods. With a background in literature studies and environmental politics and management, Mirja’s work always comes back to how the material and the symbolic are interlinked, exploring, i.a., how imaginaries and discourses manifest in institutions and practices, and how these, in turn, consolidate or challenge imaginaries. Her PhD research on mining and water governance in Mongolia exemplifies this, but so does her more recent work on nature conservation in Colombia.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mongolia

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