Erik van Doorn‘s field of expertise is international law of the sea, with a main interest in the international regulation of marine resources but also new uses of the ocean and the effects of climate change. His research has focused on fisheries, mineral resources of the deep sea, and marine planning where questions relating to justice on an international level play an important role.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: The high seas

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Eduardo Damián Valdez is  originally from and currently living in Monterrey, in the northeastern region of Mexico. He actively participate in social movements with an eco-anarchist and cooperative focus. His professional and hands-on experience has centered on designing and managing socio-environmental projects rooted in climate justice, eco-urbanism, bio-architecture, and ecopsychology.

He is  the founder of Colectivo Zenderio (since 2019), where we work on regenerating urban and rural territories through sustainable, community-driven practices. He is  also a member of the Ixlte Housing Cooperative of Monterey, where for the past year we have been developing a collective project to secure dignified housing in the city center, standing against gentrification and dispossession caused by predatory real estate developers.

Currently, He is a member of the assembly of the socio-environmental movement Un Río en el Río, where we organize to defend and restore our local watershed, which has long been threatened by capitalist megaprojects that, since the industrial city’s beginnings, have endangered the river’s health and that of the people who live here.He  seek to continue building networks to strengthen our impact and to share and learn tools for territorial defense.

Country/region of interest/research focus: Northeastern Mexico.

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Associate Professor at the Center of Research in Environmental Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research interests revolve around community-based natural resource management, conservation and territorial defense, with a particular focus on protected areas inhabited by indigenous / local communities that are engaged in struggles for environmental justice. He’s interested in collaborative scientific approaches that trigger transdisciplinary processes of co-production of environmental knowledge, social learning and grassroots innovation, and their potential in such struggles for imagining and enacting transformations toward just sustainabilities. A main area of interest has been the analysis of such processes in community environmental monitoring using technologies (e.g., drones, kits for in situ water quality analysis). His main focal areas of interest are water, forests and food systems.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia

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Kathrin Eitel ist Postdoktorandin am Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Zürich. Als Kulturanthropologin und feministische STS-Wissenschaftlerin konzentriert sich ihre Arbeit auf urbane Resilienz, Klimatechnologien und Umweltfragen im Zusammenhang mit Wasserknappheit und Abfallüberfluss, hauptsächlich in Südostasien und in Europa. Darüber hinaus ist Kathrin Eitel besonders daran interessiert ethnografisches Wissen kreativ und anders zu gestalten um andere Antworten auf den Klimawandel hervorrufen zu können.

Sie ist Autorin der Monographie „Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia. Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh“ (Routledge, 2022).

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Doctoral Student (Uni Bonn, L. Schipper supervision) at IDOS (German Institute of Development & Sustainability) in the Environmental Governance program within the Klimalog research project. My current research in the coastal region of South India (Tamil Nadu) focuses on coastal adaptation policies/measures in the context of contested sand resources. Applying a political ecology lens, I aim to investigate climate change adaptation regimes within wider socio-political processes that ultimately (re)define who has access over (sand) resources. Further, I am interested in using documentary photography as a means to visually explore contested land- and seascapes where environmental justice concerns are prevalent. 

Gül Özerol is an assistant professor at the Department of Governance and Technology (CSTM), University of Twente. She is a social-environmental scientist, specializing in public policy and focusing on water, energy and climate change. Her current research focuses on water governance, energy transition and climate resilience in diverse political, social and ecological contexts of the North Sea Region and the Middle East. In her research she integrates actor-based and institutional approaches to public policy and natural resource governance. She applies comparative and transdisciplinary methods that go beyond advancing theories and co-create knowledge in collaboration with academic and non-academic stakeholders.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, Middle East, North Africa

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Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Energy Justice, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning