Researcher, project manager and architect with an MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure and 13+ years experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors, as a committed advocate for socially justice and sustainable urban development. Her research interests centre on the promotion and defence of the commons, the role of design as an agent of change, housing as a…
Diego Silva is an economist/anthropologist and works as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of International Environmental Studies (CIES) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), in Geneva. His work is located at the intersection of science and technology studies, environmental and economic anthropology, and agrarian studies. His current research agenda includes: 1) the socio-technical analysis of…
Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Anthropology at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and member of the Political Ecology Working Group at the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO), the environmental NGO Grupo Semillas and FIAN Colombia, an organization that advocates for the right to food. She has worked on seed conflicts due to the expansion of GM crops and…
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…
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…
Rebecca Bratspies is a Law Professor at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, and the founding Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform. She is an internationally recognized expert on environmental justice, food justice, and the human right to a healthy environment. Professor Bratspies has written scores of law review articles, op-eds, and other publications….
Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a social geographer, he worked on social inclusion and exclusion, urban studies, praxelogical theories, the methodology of the social sciences and geographical health research. He developed the research programme of a transactional anthropology, which expresses a specific understanding of critique as mediation. It is particularly suited to analyze local power…
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…
Lizette Grobler is currently a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the interdisciplinary DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She is involved with the Clean Cities and Towns project. Previously she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the South African Research Chair in Property Law (SARPL), at the University of Stellenbosch, where she obtained…
Timothy Adams (Dr. PhD) is Postdoctoral researcher of Human Geography in commercial investments of natural resources, institutional change and innovations, inclusive businesses, gender, and resource governance (e.g., land, water, and forest etc.) at the University of Bern, Institute of geography and member of Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). His current research in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on institutional innovations…
