Paula Deppenbrock is a student assistant in the research group Social Geography of Coastal and Marine Areas at the Institute of Geography at Kiel University. She is also part of the coordination team of the EnJust network. Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Geography, her interests in in the connections between marine research, chlimate change and envionmental justice stems…
Claudia Horn completed her Ph.D. in International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book manuscript, The Environment for Finance. How International Projects Shape Land and Rights in the Brazilian Amazon, is under revision and projected for publication in 2026. It critically examines G7 environmental aid to Brazil’s Amazon and the building and local contestations…
An Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Angela Antle was the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU and is a member of NMBU Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her current research focuses on the role of political rhetoric in climate obstruction. She…
Iván Vargas-Chaves has taught at universities in Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Spain, and Peru, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Law at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Colombia, and member of the Intellectual Property in the Biosciences Group at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin….
Aneesa Jamal is a Doctoral student in Curriculum & Instruction at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, CEE-Change Fellow 2023, North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) & Global Fellow, Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on children’s storytelling about the Anthropocene, for which she designed two ecopedagogy based interventions, the Young Earth Authors and Young…
I’m a Mexican from the Global South, but with a broader context from the Global North as well. I work in social innovation and addressing root causes. My main focus is on nature-based social innovation,with a focus on the health, well-being, and cohesion of people and the planet because we are also nature. Country/Region of interest/research focus:Nature Based Social…
Researcher in the Department of Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg and is a PhD candidate at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. She is currently working on the North Sea Region Interreg research project DARKER SKY. The project’s overall aim is to reduce light pollution, thereby increasing biodiversity and ecological connectivity in the North Sea Region. Within the…
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…
Researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) and Goethe-University Frankfurt. I am currently investigating just knowledge integration in the context of biodiversity conservation and transdisciplinary collaboration. In my research I build on the concept of epistemic justice and how it can be more systemically integrated in transdisciplinary collaboration to utilize its transformative potential. My main…
Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical…
