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…
Post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and teaching associate at the Master program in Sustainable Development of the same University. Her current research focuses on community forests and historical commons, socially-differentiated vulnerabilities and female cooperatives, in the context of the argan oil boom and climate change. Further research focuses on sustainable agriculture and water governance from a climate change-(sustainable) development…
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…
PhD candidate in the artec Sustainability Research Center in University of Bremen, Germany. Currently working within the Humboldt Tipping Project (WP7). She is interested in the political ecology of coastal activities (fisheries along the value chain) within extractive landscapes. She works on coastal-marine resource governance, and its consequences on gendered power dynamics happening in socioecological conflicts, with a focus…
Silke Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the PI of the research project “Space, Agency and Climate Change in a Contested Urban Landscape: Exploring Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”, funded by the Leading House of the Latin American Region, Switzerland. She integrates critical urban theory approaches…
Manuel Wagner works at the urban, multifunctional agriculture Annalinde in Leipzig as an educationer for urban gardening and socio-ecological transformation. He studied at the University of Münster and worked at the StadtLabor of the Geo-Science department at the intersection of science, art and activism. His research focuses on human-compost relations and ethics of care. For this he refers to…
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…
Researcher, project manager and architect with an MSc in Land Management and Land Tenure and 13+ years experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors, as a committed advocate for socially justice and sustainable urban development. Her research interests centre on the promotion and defence of the commons, the role of design as an agent of change, housing as a…
Mirja has an interdisciplinary background in the field of environmental social sciences and a degree in comparative literature. She’s a researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn where her PhD work focusses on water governance in general and on water and mining conflicts in particular. Mirja is interested in the intersection between institutions and discourses; in the ways…
Lila Sax dos Santos Gomes leads Yarrow Global Consulting gGmbH, a non-profit consulting firm based in Germany that operates at the intersection of health and the environment with a special focus on intersectional feminist approaches to socio-ecological transformation processes. She is an experienced facilitator, project manager, and gender expert with extensive expertise in participatory methods and capacity building. She…
