Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens…
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…
Dr Jebby Romanus Gonza is a Legal Counsel at the Office of the Secretary to the Council of the University of Dodoma, Tanzania. She has conducted Postdoctoral research in aspects of International Environmental Law and has Pursued a PhD in Public International Law (Regional Economic Integration Law) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She holds an LLB and LLM degree from…
Elia Mwanga is a Senior Lecturer of Law at the University of Dodoma, specializing in Natural Resources Law, Mining Law, Oil and Gas Law, Climate Change Law, and Environmental Law. He has researched and published widely on oil and gas law, mining law, climate change law, and environmental law. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Africa Region
Professor Prakash C. Tiwari, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Kumaun University, Nainital, India, is a distinguished authority on Mountain Natural Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation. He currently serves as Expert Consultant for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Spring Assessment Outlook at ICIMOD, Kathmandu, while also holding key international roles as Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project (ESG)…
Claudia Horn completed her Ph.D. in International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book manuscript, The Environment for Finance. How International Projects Shape Land and Rights in the Brazilian Amazon, is under revision and projected for publication in 2026. It critically examines G7 environmental aid to Brazil’s Amazon and the building and local contestations…
An Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Angela Antle was the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU and is a member of NMBU Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her current research focuses on the role of political rhetoric in climate obstruction. She…
Dr. Rosa Felicitas Philipp is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Economic and Social Geography Group at Heidelberg University. She completed her PhD at the University of Bern with the dissertation “Defensa de la vida (Defence of Life): Infrastructured Bodies, Care and Resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.” In her doctoral research, she examined the resistance of Indigenous women against…
I’m a Mexican from the Global South, but with a broader context from the Global North as well. I work in social innovation and addressing root causes. My main focus is on nature-based social innovation,with a focus on the health, well-being, and cohesion of people and the planet because we are also nature. Country/Region of interest/research focus:Nature Based Social…
Christian Buske holds a degree in biology and a master’s degree in administrative sciences and worked in environmental protection and nature conservation before becoming head of management training in the education sector in Schleswig-Holstein. He has been working as a ministerial councilor for the state government in Schleswig-Holstein since 2018. He is the editor of the blog The Future…
