Colin von Negenborn is a postdoctoral researcher at Kiel University, working at both the institute of philosophy and the Walther Schücking institute for international law. 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”?

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Clara Lüpke was part of the Coordinationteam of the EnJust Network for environmental justice. She was working as research assistant at in Prof. Klepp’s research group with the thematic focus on environmental justice. She wrote her bachelor’s thesis in Geography on the topic of “The role of digital spaces for young adults with cancer”.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mediterranean region

Author and Expert for Sustainable Development since the 1990s. Active in diverse political and scientific contexts, especially circular society, implementing the rights of nature. I am interested in ecological economy, degrowth and transformation theory and discourses. I have worked intensively on the importance of craftsmanship for sustainable development (because of its time-intensive and highly satisfying way of working and the numerous skills we need for a post-growth society and climate change: durable, customised products, unique items, services, maintenance/repair), growth theory and new forms of work. with growth theory and new forms of labour. Founder and board member of the Round Table Repair, the Kiel Food Council, moderator of the network ‘Rights of Nature’. Author of the following books: Das Handwerk der Zukunft (1997), Die Könnensgesellchaft (2007), together with Fritz Hinterberger Wachstumswahn (2014).

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Dr Christian Baatz is a research associate at the Department of Philosophy at Kiel University and head of a research project investigating what constitutes a fair distribution of funds provided by the international community to the Global South for adaptation to climate change. Prior to this, he completed his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the justification and practical possibilities of compensating the victims of climate change. Not least because of his studies in environmental sciences, his work aims to analyse the normative aspects of current social and ecological problems and to exchange views on them in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts.

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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, Transboundary area between Chiapas-Guatemala.

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Caroline Meier is a research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Biosphere Reserves Institute at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany. I study cultural dimensions of human-‘nature’ relations. Of particular interest are power relations within environmental initiatives, how they emerged and how they work. In my PhD project, I investigate how international organisations allowed and still allow for local knowledge to be heard and promoted beyond the local scale by the use of the example of the UNESCO ‘Man and the Biosphere’ programme. The PhD project takes a historical perspective and is localised in the critical thought school and within this, political ecology.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Central America

Assistant professor of political science at Sciences Po Paris. Her research draws on political science, human geography and development studies, and examines the politics of climate change in small island states, with a particular focus on adaptation finance, coastal adaptation, and UN climate negotiations.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Small Island Developing States, Comoros, Seychelles

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Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc-Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a PhD in Geography by the University of Hamburg, promoted with a scholarship by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung within the research cluster on transformation studies. In her dissertation project she analyzed processes of spatial empowerment in the urban and peri-urban agriculture in Colombia. She conducted 18 months of field research with the participatory-action research approach together with agroecological networks and Community Supported Agriculture projects in Bogotá. Her current research involves food justice, sustainable public food procurement and the role of local food initiatives. She is engaged in the building-up of a local food policy council in Tübingen. Birgit Hoinle is part of the network of Critical Geography in Latin-America GeoRaizAL (Red de Geografías Críticas de Raíz Latinoamericana) and of the working group feminist geographies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, Southern Germany

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Human geographer and currently working as Research Associate at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation focused on the political geographies of the struggles for food sovereignty in Bolivia where he conducted several months of ethnographic research. His main research interests are political geography, political ecology, geographies of food, and geographies of justice, as well as sustainability and transformation research. His current research is centered on conflicting imaginations of sustainability, climate justice, and geographies of democracy in the Anthropocene. Besides his academic activities he was working for WWF Germany and the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Bolivia, South America

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