Paola Villavicencio Calzadilla, legal scholar and environmental law researcher I am a Bolivian legal scholar specializing in environmental and climate change law, climate justice and environmental governance at the intersection of law, policy, and human rights. I hold a PhD in International Climate Change Law and a Master’s in Environmental Law from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain….
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…
Isabelle Desportes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, An-Institut at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and lecturer at the RWTH Aachen. She researches the (hidden) politics of disaster prevention and humanitarian response, including in authoritarian conflict settings, and co-coordinates the Centre Marc Bloch’s research group on ‘Environment, Climate, Energy’ since October 2024. Her current research project,…
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…
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…
Sören Weißermel is a human geographer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Kiel University. His research focuses on the spatial negotiation of political conflicts in the context of power-laden society-nature relations. In his PhD project, he investigated the processes of dispossession and precarisation of marginalised and invisibilised people and lifeforms in the context of the construction of…
I am working as a senior researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn. I am interested in the political ecology of conservation and development, climate politics and agrarian change. Currently, I am working on the socio-ecological transformation of the Jakarta Bay and of the Elbe estuary. My research has mainly focused on Indonesia, Northern…
Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc Researcher at the Department of Societal Transition & Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Hamburg. Her current research focuses on food justice, sustainable public procurement and alternative food networks. Due to several research and project stays in Brazil and Colombia she has a strong…
Anna Lena Bercht is a human geographer and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography at the University of Kiel. Previously, she was a guest researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at the Stockholm University and at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at the Freie University Berlin. Her research lies at the interface of geography and psychology,…
Silja Klepp is Professor of Human Geography at Kiel University. She is a trained social anthropologist. Her research group “Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas” deals with human-environment relations in the Anthropocene. In her current research on climate change migration and adaptation, she integrates postcolonial perspectives, justice dimensions and critical theories in the study of the social effects…
