Dr. Liv Yoon’s research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequity, and health, with a focus on community engagement work. As a social scientist, she approaches climate change as a sociopolitical crisis. Her research is focused on taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that both led to, and are exacerbated by, the climate crisis.

Dr. Yoon obtained her Ph.D. at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in Sociocultural Kinesiology. Her training in socio-cultural studies informs her to think about bodies in sociopolitical context. Applied to climate change, this means thinking about how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and in turn, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related risks and pollution.

She is a Fellow with the New York City Panel on Climate Change – Health Working Group, a member of the Community Engagement Core at the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, and member of Columbia University’s Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities (EJCJC).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: North America (but not limited to it)

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Florian Dünckmann heads the working group for cultural geography at the Geography Department in Kiel. He deals with questions of political ecology, the development of rural areas and processes of democracy-building. Hannah Arend’s philosophy and current practical theories form the theoretical approach to these topics.

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Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global health in Latin America and Europe, including pollution and climate change, disaster response and preparedness, infectious diseases, and the sociopolitical aspects of food.

Mandy also collaborates with the NGO the Ocean and Us, exploring multispecies relations in ocean governance and community-driven and care-ful approaches to conservation and protection of the deep sea and its inhabitants.

In her work Mandy uses and combines collaborative and qualitative methods and often works together with researchers from diverse disciplines, practitioners, civil society organizations, community organizers and activists. She obtained her PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean, Spain, the Netherlands

Country/Region of interest/research focus: OECD, global North

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Gül Özerol is an assistant professor at the Department of Governance and Technology (CSTM), University of Twente. She is a social-environmental scientist, specializing in public policy and focusing on water, energy and climate change. Her current research focuses on water governance, energy transition and climate resilience in diverse political, social and ecological contexts of the North Sea Region and the Middle East. In her research she integrates actor-based and institutional approaches to public policy and natural resource governance. She applies comparative and transdisciplinary methods that go beyond advancing theories and co-create knowledge in collaboration with academic and non-academic stakeholders.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, Middle East, North Africa

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Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Energy Justice, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning

Aneesa Jamal is a Doctoral student in Curriculum & Instruction at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, CEE-Change Fellow 2023, North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) & Global Fellow, Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on children’s storytelling about the Anthropocene, for which she designed two ecopedagogy based interventions, the Young Earth Authors and Young Climate Authors. Her work foregrounds the voices of children from the Global South.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: India