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),…
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…
Sophie Baban hold a Master’s degree in Environmental and Resource Economics. In her thesis, she applied concepts from Ecological Economics to develop a shadow price for biodiversity in order to assess the impacts of illegal elephant trade in Africa and to highlight the resulting ecological and social conflicts.This engagement with global justice issues deepened her understanding of the connections…
A transdisciplinary artist, educator, and consultant working in video, installation, performance, and collaboration, Curry centers environmental, economic, political and gender structures. Curry’s research-based practice frames her projects with the diverse location-specific narratives that link non-conventional methods of research and activism. Extending into the areas of urban planning and design, developing projects in collaboration with the communities her work resides,…
Student of the Master “Sustainability, Society and the Environment” at Kiel University. He is currently working on his master thesis about infrastructure expansion for a green hydrogen economy in Germany at Schleswig-Holstein’s west coast. Previously, he has been working on spatial conflicts due to the port expansion of the port of Hamburg. Research interests are environmental/energy/hydrogen justice, infrastructure, and…
Aspiring environmental researcher/consultant with an inclination in the domain of socio-environmental conflicts and local approaches to sustainability. With an engineering degree in natural resources management and studies in cultural development and sustainable tourism, I have gained professional experience in the field of sustainable community development in south Central America. Currently, I am studying a master in environmental management and…
Student of the master program “Environmental Management” at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He is currently focusing on socio-technical imaginaries within the hydrogen energy transition in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since Northern Germany has huge potentials for renewable energy production, the construction of a hydrogen energy infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein is on its way. Ravn is researching the social and power relationships between…
Nicolás is Ecologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), MSc and PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently an Associate Academic Technician at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border of UNAM. Nicolás is self-described as a critical cartographer and an academic activist committed to social and environmental…
Michael is a critical geographer who studies the intersecting social, economic and political inequalities caused by the impacts of, and our responses to, climate change. His research is informed by critical theory and interrogates the concepts of climate justice, adaptation, resilience and intersectionality. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Climate Justice and Urban Sustainability at the Department of Environmental…
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….
