Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast-Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Yvonne’s research interests are power asymmetries in access to natural resources. In her current research project she investigates climate change and governance in marine protected areas in the Dutch Caribbean and Indonesia. She is also involved in the DFG-funded project “Ecological and socio-economic functions of low land rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra, Indonesia”, where land and forests were the resources at focus, also in the context of governance and governability. Yvonne is also interested in feminist political ecologies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Dutch Caribbean, Indonesia

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Director and Co-founder of the Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance (Colombia). Member of the Marine Working Group of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW). Member of the Latin American Hub of the Virtual Blue Decade. More than 14 years of experience working on: coastal law, international environmental law, comparative law, environmental migrations, human rights, environmental governance, sustainable development goals, climate change, and capacity building for indigenous people’s and Afro-descendants’ rights. Lecturer in environmental law and environmental governance, and academic advisor of degree projects. Lawyer and specialist in Constitutional Law graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She earned an LLM in Energy and Environment at Tulane University with the support of the the J. William Fulbright Scholarship.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Colombia / Latin America, Marine and coastal governance

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Social Anthropology Phd Student, working in Social Construction of Risk and Disasters field studies. My current research focuses in the socionatural causes of the damages provoked by the 2017 7^th September earthquake on a fishery located in the northern coast of Chiapas, Mexico. I work from a historical/political perspective, which I propose as a necessary platform to understand the way power relations shape the disaster process in Latin America contexts, where there´s still a strong colonialist influence. This perspective integrates “politics” concept as authors such as Chantal Mouffe and Jaques Ranciére propose, in order to show the mechanisms local actors, use to resist not only the disaster in its emergency moments, but also the disaster as an historical process, which usually takes place within spaces of intense disputes around natural wealth access.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Chiapas, Mexico

Post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and teaching associate at the Master program in Sustainable Development of the same University. Her current research focuses on community forests and historical commons, socially-differentiated vulnerabilities and female cooperatives, in the context of the argan oil boom and climate change. Further research focuses on sustainable agriculture and water governance from a climate change-(sustainable) development nexus perspective. She mobilizes human-environment geography approaches to integrate social sciences theories with concepts from social-ecological systems and climate change research. She participates in research projects that are usually characterized by interdisciplinary questions and transdisciplinary ambitions for participatory research and planning in the field. Eirini Skrimizea’s case studies are located mainly in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Greece, France, Morocco, Central Asia

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Dr. Francesca Rosignoli (PhD 2016) is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), member of the CEDAT and coordinator of EJ-ITALY, the first research group made up of women only focusing on Environmental Justice (EJ) in Italy. Her research interests include environmental justice, global environmental governance, climate change, climate-induced migration, and collective capabilities. Her current research focuses on the role of gender and justice in climate-induced migration. Her latest monograph, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees, was published by Routledge in May 2022. She is co-editor of the volumes ‘Climate Change Integration in the Multilevel Governance of Italy and Austria’ (Brill 2022) and ‘Racism, Environment, Health. Environmental Racism and Health Inequalities’ (PM 2022).

Environmental Research in the Human Science area

Environmental Justice Institute

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, Caribbean, East Africa, UK 

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