Jordan Rydman
Environmental Social Scientist, University of Freiburg, Germany
Christian Baatz
Postdoctoral researcher, Kiel
Klaus Geiselhart
Geographer, Erlangen
Anika Schmidt
Social Geographer, Leipzig
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Postdoc, University of Osnabrück
Hartmut Fünfgeld
University of Freiburg, Institute for Environmental Social Science and Geography
Erik van Doorn
International Law Scholar, Kiel
Antje Bruns
Professor for Governance and Sustainability, Trier University
Maria Kaufmann
Radboud University, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment
Arianna Porrone
PhD student in Global Studies, University of Macerata, Italy
Konrad Ott
Environmental Ethicist, Kiel
Irmak Ertör
Bogazici University (Istanbul), The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
Rebecca Bratspies
Environmental Justice and Environmental Law, New York City
Somaieh Samimi
PhD student, Iran
Sina Trölenberg
Geographer, Berlin
Riccarda Flemmer
Postdoctoral researcher
Colin von Negenborn
Postdoctoral researcher, Hamburg
Barbara Dombrowski
Dipl. Photographer, visual artist, Hamburg
Gül Özerol
Socio-environmental scientist, The Hague, The Netherlands
Celia Ruiz de Oña Plaza
Political Ecologist, Journalist, Traveler and Dancer with the Mountains
Katriona McGlade
Environmental Social Scientist, UK / Germany
Hauke Dentzin
Geograph, Kiel
Timothy Adams
Development Economist / Geographer, Bern
Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco
Ecological Economist, Bonn
Jaime Paneque-Gálvez
Interdisciplinary environmental scientist, Morelia (Mexico)
Jordan Rydman
M.A. (Environmental) Social Science student and student researcher, part of the Global Studies Programme organized between University of Freiburg (Germany), University of Cape Town (South Africa), and Jawaharlal University (India). She conducts research in the areas of environmental governance and sustainable economics, working specifically on sovereign sustainability transitions in food cultures to improve community resiliency to climate change and climate famine. The background of her research includes primarily environmental social science, social transformations, food anthropology, sustainability, sustainability economics, international ‘development,’ sustainable food systems, political ecology, and environmental justice, all with humility and intention toward decoloniality.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Current focus: Germany, Europe. Past foci: Arctic Alaska, Brazilian Amazon, Sumatra & Borneo
Keywords: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Ecological Economics, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Marine Social Science, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Christian Baatz
Christian Baatz is lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at Kiel University and leads a research project on how to distribute funding provided by the international community to support adaptation to climate change in the Global South. Prior to this, he finished his Ph.D. thesis on compensating climate change victims in developing countries. Having a background in environmental sciences, his work aims at analysing the normative dimension of social and environmental problems that we face today and at discussing that research within inter- and transdisciplinary contexts.
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Klaus Geiselhart
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
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Anika Schmidt
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
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Migration, Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, PhD, currently works as a Postdoc at Osnabrück University and co-leads two research projects about soy and beef supply chains from Brazil, with a focus on regulatory governance, corporate accountability and environmental justice. Prominent themes in her research are business and human rights, environmental governance, global supply chains, Indigenous peoples and FPIC, extractive industries and the agribusiness in Latin America.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Brazil, Bolivia, Andean region, Latin America, Europe
Keywords: Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Hartmut Fünfgeld
Hartmut Fünfgeld is Professor of Geography of Global Change at the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University Freiburg. He also has an affiliation as Adjunct Professor with the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Hartmut studies the social and institutional dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation to climate change, especially in the area of municipal and regional planning. Further research areas are social transformation processes and social justice in the context of global change. Hartmut Fünfgeld received his doctorate in human geography from the University of Heidelberg in 2006. He has over 15 years of work experience in research, teaching and advisory work in Europe, Oceania, Africa, and Asia.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Australia, Southern Germany
Erik van Doorn
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
Antje Bruns
Antje Bruns is a professor for Sustainable Development and Governance in the Human Geography Department at Trier University. Her work examines socio-political geographies of resources and the role of politics, power and expertise in environmental governance.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Germany, Greater Region (Saar-Lor-Lux), Coastal Cities; West-Africa
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Maria Kaufmann
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.
Arianna Porrone
Arianna Porrone is a PhD student in Global Studies. Justice, Rights, Politics, at the Department of political science, communication and international relations of the University of Macerata, Italy. Awarded with a One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates (2020-2021) she has joined the research group Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas of Kiel University as a visiting researcher. Her main research interests are political ecology, environmental justice, storytelling and the environmental humanities as well ecofeminisms and feminist critical theories. Her Ph.D research focuses on understanding power and gender dynamics in knowledge creation within the current international environmental governance realm and aims at exploring ontological pluralism as a way forward able to reconcile human and more-than-human concerns.
Keywords: Political Ecology, Gender and Development, Postcolonialism, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Methods
Konrad Ott
{:en}Konrad Ott endeavours in research and teaching to impart the competence of philosophical reflection, the achievements of ethical justification and orientation, such as empirical facts in the environmental field. His philosophical focus is on discourse ethics, environmental ethics, theories of justice, sustainability, ethical aspects of climate change, nature conservation reasons and the normative foundations of environmental policy. During his academic career, Ott worked mainly in a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary manner. Between 2012 and 2018 he was involved in a number of research networks at the University of Kiel, for example in the excellence initiatives “Future Ocean Sustainability” and “Roots“. Konrad Ott’s current research interests concern a socio-theoretical foundation of environmental ethics and sustainability.
Keywords: Climate Change Adaption, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Marine Social Science, Migration, Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Irmak Ertör
Irmak Ertör is an assistant professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in Economics and an MA in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University, Turkey. She has been a Marie Curie (ITN) early stage researcher of the ENTITLE project (European Network of Political Ecology) and completed her PhD on the “Political Ecology of Marine Finfish Aquaculture in Europe” in ICTA, UAB. Currently, she is a member of the Cost Action on Ocean Governance and investigates socio-environmental conflicts and social movements of fisher communities, food sovereignty and environmental justice.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Turkey and Mediterranean
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Political Ecology blog (of the former ENTITLE group)
Rebecca Bratspies
Rebecca Bratspies is a Law Professor at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, and the founding Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform. She is an internationally recognized expert on environmental justice, food justice, and the human right to a healthy environment. Professor Bratspies has written scores of law review articles, op-eds, and other publications. Her most recent book is Environmental Justice: Law Policy and Regulation.
Professor Bratspies serves as an appointed member of the New York City’s Environmental Justice Advisory Panel, and US EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. She is a scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform, Deputy Director for North American with the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Law in Context. She is Past-President of the American Association of Law Schools Section on the Environment. A former Luce Scholar, she is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a law degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her environmentally-themed comic books Mayah’s Lot and Bina’s Plant, made in collaboration with artist Charlie LaGreca-Velasco, have brought environmental literacy to a new generation of environmental leaders.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: New York City
Keywords: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Energy Vulnerability, Urban and Regional Planning
Somaieh Samimi
I am Somaieh Samimi, a PhD student in environmental science from Iran. The field I am interested in is political ecology. The role of power at any scale in access and environmental justice fascinates me. Injustice in the distribution of natural resources, as well as recently, injustice in the distribution of the consequences of excessive consumption of resources such as fossil fuels, is an issue that must be addressed on a global scale. Countries – and within countries, peripheral regions – are being depleted and are often exposed to natural disasters of human origin. This injustice becomes a gap that widens the distance between people in every field. Here and throughout my research, I am looking for a mechanism to bridge this gap and turn injustice into justice.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Iran and East Asia
Keywords: Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Marine Social Science, Political Ecology
Sina Trölenberg
Sina Trölenberg is a human geographer with emphasis on political ecology, international environmental conflicts, and environmental peacebuilding. She holds a Master’s degree in Human-Environment Interactions (JLU Giessen) and a double Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Spanish Studies. Her regional focus is on Latin America, specifically Colombia, as well as on European climate politics and local protest movements. Currently, she is part of the NGO “Romero Initiative” and working closely with central American human rights activists in the context of a climate justice project carried out in Europe.
Country/Region of Interest/Focus of Research: Latin America, Europe
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Riccarda Flemmer
She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings together norms research in International Relations, postcolonial perspectives, and critical (legal) anthropology. Her current interests is to understand and further conceptualize the politics of translation between different ontologies involved in resource conflicts. Her regional focus is on the Amazon rainforest, especially Peru.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Amazon Rainforest, Peru
Colin von Negenborn
Colin von Negenborn is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hamburg, working at the intersection of practical philosophy and microeconomic theory. With a background in physics (ETH Zurich), Colin pursued a PhD in economics (HU Berlin) in the field of mechanism design, effectively reverse-engineering game theory. He is now taking the language of game theory to the realm of philosophy, using it to analyse questions of procedural justice: how are societal decision making processes to be designed for them to be “just”?
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Ecological Economics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Marine Social Science
Barbara Dombrowski
For the last 10 years Barbara Dombrowski dedicated her work to places affected by climate change. She focused on five relevant and specific climate localities on every continent and their indigenous population: Achuar in Ecuador, Inuit in East Greenland, mongolian Nomads in Desert Gobi, Maasai in the Republic of Tansania and Micronesians in Kiribati. Man-made climate change is not only a massive threat to nature, ecosystems and biodiversity, but above all, to people themselves. This is the main theme of the project. After portraying the peoples and landscapes, Barbara brought their pictures in spectacular photo-art-installations in the Amazonia, Greenland and in and around the Hambach Forest, on the apron of the open-cast lignite mine, together. By combining the people, Barbara builds a bridge between them, their regions and cultures and shows that everything is interwoven.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: worldwide, now mostly focused on Europe
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Postcolonialism, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Gül Özerol
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
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Energy Vulnerability, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Celia Ruiz de Oña Plaza
Researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre on Chiapas and the Southern Border -CIMSUR- at the National Mexican Autonomous University -UNAM-. Her current research in the transborder region between Chiapas and Guatemala focuses on climate change adaptation, rural sustainable production systems and borderland issues. She integrates political ecology and borderland studies into the field of climate change adaptation. Further research focuses on the migration and climate change nexus at the Mexican southern border. Celia Ruiz de Oña´s main research areas are in Chiapas-Guatemala borderland regions. She has been collaborating with ENJUST members since 2018.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin American region. Transboundary area between Chiapas-Guatemala
Keywords: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Migration, Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Katriona McGlade
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany and a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on climate adaptation and coastal policy with an emphasis on participation and knowledge politics. In her PhD thesis on coastal climate adaptation in Scottish island communities, she uses feminist and decolonial research practice to explore issues of recognition and epistemic justice. Prior to her work in this area, Katriona spent many years studying and working in Spanish and Latin American contexts and is a keen linguist with an interest in minoritised languages.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: UK/Scotland, Outer Hebrides, islands, rural-urban divide
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Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Marine Social Science, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Hauke Dentzin
Master Student at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, in the programme Sustainability, Society, and the Environment. As a research assistant in the Urban- and Population Geography working group of the CAU his focus is set on processes of green gentrification, energetic retrofitting and energy justice in Kiel. Furthermore, his master thesis will be based on the topic of financialization of the social housing market and the resulting urban development in Sao Paulo. Finally, he is interested in science communication and science’s role in social society. Overall, the urban realm is at the center of his studies, researching about the influence of capitalistic patterns of urban development and ruptures in this overarching trend.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Brazil, Sao Paulo, Kiel
Keywords: Energy Vulnerability, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning
Timothy Adams
Timothy Adams (Dr. PhD) is Postdoctoral researcher of Human Geography in commercial investments of natural resources, institutional change and innovations, inclusive businesses, gender, and resource governance (e.g., land, water, and forest etc.) at the University of Bern, Institute of geography and member of Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). His current research in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on institutional innovations for inclusive land investments, gender, and environmental justice. He integrates political ecology, science technology and innovation studies perspectives and critical theories into the field of institutional change, land commercialization, gender and development. Further research focuses on the environmental, economic, and social consequences of formalized arrangements of collective tenure institutional innovations (FACT) for commercial land investments (i.e., land, water, forest, and minerals). Timothy Adams’s main research areas are in sub-Saharan Africa but had in the past worked on projects involving commercial land investments in different resources sectors across the African continent (i.e., solar energy in Morocco, Timber plantations in Tanzania, rice farming in Ghana, and sugarcane in Malawi and Zambia).
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords: Agroecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Energy Vulnerability, Gender and Development, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Legal Geographies, Marine Social Science, Migration, Mobility Concepts, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Urban and Regional Planning, Institutional Economics
Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco
Jean Carlo Rodriguez is an environmental-social scientist interested in environmental change, environmental governance and equity. At the Alexander von Humboldt Institute in Colombia and the Landbouw Economisch Instituut (LEI) in the Netherlands, he gathered significant experience in designing and implementing NbS to protect ecosystems and biodiversity for the provision of watershed ecosystem services. During his Ph.D. on the political ecology of water, he analyzed how power asymmetries and governance aspects influenced the socio-ecological outcomes of Payment for Ecosystem Services in Latinamerica. After this, he (co-)led several research groups at DIE focusing on the equity aspects of NbS for climate mitigation and adaptation in Latinamerica. Through these engagements, he has recognized the potential of rights-based and is interested in understanding its implications for people and nature.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latinamerica and Central Asia
Keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Politics, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Postcolonialism, Socio-Ecological Transformation
Jaime Paneque-Gálvez
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
Keywords: Agroecology, Ecological Economics, Inter-and Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Socio-Ecological Transformation