Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez
Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental causes. He is part of the Conflict, Region and Rural Societies research group ascribed to the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies, member of the Collective for the Protection of the Province of Sugamuxi since 2012, member of the Cartographic Collective of the Global South since 2022, founder and coordinator of the Latin American Network for Community Use of Drones, and member of the Latin American Network for the Defense of Biocultural Heritage.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America
Nicolás Vargas-Ramírez
Ecologist,Associate Academic Technician
Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc...
F. Dermmillah Obare
Dermmillah Obare is a scholar-practitioner with over a decade of experience advancing environmental governance in Africa. Her work focuses on the design and performance of government environmental institutions, advocating for inclusive models that integrate the livelihood needs of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. She bridges research, policy, and practice through roles in consulting, capacity-building, and regulatory design. A sought-after voice in global forums, she regularly leads sessions at international conferences on biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Africa
F. Dermmillah Obare
PhD Candidate
Dermmillah Obare is a scholar-practitioner with over a decade of...
Gert van Hecken
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium. Main research focuses on the global and local nexus between the environment and processes of social change, and more specifically in the socio-political dynamics triggered by (international) conditional climate change/development finance instruments, such as carbon and biodiversity markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), and green microfinance. Also works on alternative (transformational) paradigms, social movements and processes related to degrowth, and decolonial approaches to social-ecological futures. Research has mainly focused on Central- and South America, using participatory action research methods.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Central America
Gert van Hecken
Assistant Professor at Institute of Development Policy
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University...
Margaret Ojochide Aligbe
PhD student in Transdisciplinary Sustainability with a background in Agricultural Economics, Sustainable Development and Community Organizing as well as Fund Raising. Wrote and researched on Fast Fashion, then continued in the field of plastic bag usage, development of megacities that lead to more environmental degradation and economic gentrification that displaces people. Margaret Ojochide Aligbe is presently researching on the loss of marine biodiversity at the transdisciplinary level through the lens of methodological cosmopolitanism and ocean governance.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, Africa and North America
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Margaret Ojochide Aligbe
PhD Student
PhD student in Transdisciplinary Sustainability with a background in Agricultural...
Catalina Garcia
Catalina is a Marine Social Science researcher. An anthropologist by heart and training, she has worked at the Colombian Erigaie NGO as an independent researcher and consultant in marine social sciences for over two decades. Her research, situated in critical ocean studies, focuses on ocean justice and marine governance in contested marine areas. Currently, Catalina is a doctoral student in the Geography and International Development Department at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From the perspective of maritime legal geographies, she looks at the role of Black and Indigenous legalities in governing the ocean in equitable and sustainable ways, and the extent to which they are integrated into the international ocean regimes. In particular, she works with the Black-Creole communities in the islands located on the Nicaraguan-Colombian contested border area, exploring the indigenous marine laws and their forms of resisting international regimes through indigenous rights regarding artisanal fisheries, sea mobility, and marine environmental resource management.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: The Caribbean Sea
Catalina Garcia
Anthropologist, Marine Social Scientist
Catalina is a Marine Social Science researcher. An anthropologist by...
Matthias Schmelzer
Country/Region of interest/research focus: OECD, global North
Matthias Schmelzer
Transformation Researcher, Flensburg
Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian and transformation researcher. He...
