Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
Madlen Kobi is assistant professor at the Unit of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg and leads the research project «Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials“ (SNSF-PRIMA, 2022-2026). The project investigates at the intersection of anthropology and architecture the practical challenges of reusing building materials in selected European countries. The analysis of reuse practices…
Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She…
Dr. Jinat Hossain is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, and a Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland. A feminist scholar, her work spans trans/interdisciplinary themes, with a particular focus on feminist political ecology, climate change adaptation and development politics, transformative change, epistemic justice and the feminist political economy…
For over two decades, I’ve been researching and teaching in the areas of energy system transformation, climate change adaptation, sustainable urban and regional development, and stakeholder and citizen participation. My work is deeply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, shaped by close collaboration with civil society, private companies, and public institutions. Since 2018, I’ve been a senior researcher at artec – the…
Patricia Widener is a professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University, and her research and teaching interests include social movements and environmental, climate, and marine justice. In the past, she has researched how communities and environmental groups responded to offshore and onshore oil extraction or expansion activities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Ecuador, and in Florida in the U.S. Currently,…
Researcher and lecturer at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Monterrey, Mexico, and a member of the Mexican National Researchers’ System. She’s also a member of the activist scholars collective Académic@s de Monterrey 43, and a member of the Redgesma (network for gender and environment). Her current research focuses on socio-spatial segregation and social…
Hartmut Fünfgeld is ICLEI Professor of Practice Local Government Climate Resilience at La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia) and Honorary Professor in Geographies of Climate Adaptation at the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg. Hartmut studies the social and institutional dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation to climate change, especially in the area of municipal…
Judith Bopp is a human geographer with a particular interest in organic farming practices and the interrelations among food, health, and ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC). In her research project, “Fostering the Health–Nutrition–Ecology Nexus: Organic Farming Practices and Household Resilience in Rural Thailand,” she investigates how rural…
Dr Christian Baatz is a research associate at the Department of Philosophy at Kiel University and head of a research project investigating what constitutes a fair distribution of funds provided by the international community to the Global South for adaptation to climate change. Prior to this, he completed his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the justification and…
