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Anika Schmidt

Position: Social Geographer
Email: anika.schmidt@ufz.de
Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Migration, Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Location: Leipzig, Germany
{:en}{:en}Anika Schmidt is a scientist working on urban transformations towards sustainability at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Department Urban and Environmental Sociology. Her research includes e.g. urban governance, (cooperative) processes of green space development and the socio-spatial implications of housing market dynamics. She is involved in transdisciplinary research projects, contributing to combine the knowledge and competences of scientific, municipal and non-governmental practice partners and to finding new forms of collaboration. Her scientific interests especially lie in the conflicts, paradoxes and issue of social-ecological justice of urban transformations, e.g. the goal conflicts arising through environmental or “green” gentrification, cooperative urban development and participatory processes. Country/Region of interest/research focus: urban areas, so far mostly within Europe Link

Anika Schmidt

Social Geographer

{:en}{:en}Anika Schmidt is a scientist working on urban transformations towards...

Laura Pesliak

Laura Dominique Pesliak

Position: Research Associate in the Field of Environmental Health and Policy, Bielefeld
Email: laura.pesliak@uni-bielefeld.de
Categories: Gender and Development, Indigenous Environmental Justice, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Public Health, Science Communication, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Location: Bielefeld, Germany, Hamburg, Germany
Laura is an Environmental Public Health and Policy Research Associate at the University of Bielefeld and PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. In her dissertation she explores opportunities and challenges of a social-ecological transformation through the lens of intersectional environmental justice. Integrating diverse perspectives including the eco gender Gap, environmental racism, and critiques of Western-centric research epistemologies, Laura aims to analyze the complexities of intersectional environmental justice in Germany and in international comparison to countries such as the US and New Zealand. To provide a comprehensive understanding of these issues, Laura’s research combines theories and methods from environmental sociology, eco-feminism, critical race theory, and cultural psychology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, United States, New Zealand

Laura Pesliak

Laura Dominique Pesliak

Research Associate in the Field of Environmental Health and Policy, Bielefeld

Laura is an Environmental Public Health and Policy Research Associate...

Klaus Geiselhart

Position: Geographer
Email: klaus.geiselhart@fau.de
Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Location: Erlangen, Germany

Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a social geographer, he worked on social inclusion and exclusion, urban studies, praxelogical theories, the methodology of the social sciences and geographical health research. He developed the research programme of a transactional anthropology, which expresses a specific understanding of critique as mediation. It is particularly suited to analyze local power asymmetries and dissent scenarios. Recent work has focused on cities in transition, post-growth economies and environmental justice. Numerous collaborative research projects with city administrations, urban target groups also by involving students.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cities

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Klaus Geiselhart

Geographer

Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a...

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