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 as a Possibility, in which he writes about approaches for a global social contract on the principles of coexistence as an essential prerequisite for a successful future. In his utopian novel Anninarra – Die Zukunft als Möglichkeit (Ihleo-Verlag), he shows a world that has gone down this path and in which fundamental problems of humanity such as war, hunger and environmental destruction have been solved and their long-term survival on Earth has been secured. He is  also a member of Die Auswärtige Presse e.V. International Association of Journalists Hamburg.

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p>Maria is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Politics at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Department of Geography, Planning and Environment). Her current research focuses on governance of climate change adaptation (particularly flood risk governance), nature-based solutions, energy vulnerability and understanding societal transformations (or the lack thereof). She integrates insights from discursive-institutionalism and critical theories into the field of environmental adaptation. Methodologically her focus is on qualitative research methods.

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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 of climate change. Silja’s field research experience includes countries such as Kiribati, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Italy, Libya, Malta, and Zambia. She is Alumna of the German Young Academy of Scientists (Die Junge Akademie) and an appointed member of the Council for Migration and the scientific advisory board of Heinrich Böll Foundation, amongst other transdisciplinary engagements. Together with Jonas Hein and Florian Dünckmann she founded the transdisciplinary network of environmental justice EnJust. In order to achieve more inclusive and creative ways of making science she works with transdisciplinary approaches and artistic research.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Italy (Sicily), Oceania (Kiribati and New Zealand), Cape Verde Islands.

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Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning and a member of the Center for Urban Research and the Social Equity Research Center at RMIT University Melbourne. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, social equity and justice, urban sustainability and land-use planning and the implications for policy and governance particularly at the local and regional scale. She has worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and led a range of applied climate change adaptation and resilience projects with local, state government and community sector organizations. She co-leads a not-for-profit organization the Climate Change Exchange established to bring together research, policy and practice to build our collective capacity to create inclusive, just and transformative adaptation futures.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Australia, Australasia

Links: https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/m/susie-moloney

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Postdoctoral researcher of postcolonial Anglophobe literature and culture from the perspective of the Blue Humanities at the University of Bremen. He is a fellow of the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the interdisciplinary research networks “Fiction Meets Science” and “Oceanic Humanities for the Global South” as well a number of postcolonial associations. His current research focuses on the intersections of postcolonial studies and the blue humanities especially in relation to climate change and sustainability. Along with research, he is teaching “Narratives of Ocean Cultures” at the University of Bremen. As an Arab scholar, he further researches Arabic maritime humanities. He taught English literature as an Assistant Professor in many universities in Yemen and Jordan.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe and the Mediterranean