With a background in development studies, Nora Katharina Faltmann works on social science perspectives on food and agriculture. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime’ in which she researches alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland. A further research focus lies…
Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning and a member of the Center for Urban Research and the Social Equity Research Center at RMIT University Melbourne. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, social equity and justice, urban sustainability and land-use planning and the implications for policy and governance particularly at the local and regional scale. She has worked…
Janina Dannenberg is a sustainability scientist with a specialisation on the intersection of gender and socio-ecological crisis and transformation. She leads the project “Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands” at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. It focusses on the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear weapons and their interaction with climate changes through a gender lens…
Having a background in environmental sciences my focus shifted from natural sciences towards questions of responsibility and justice in my two masters programs on Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Science. Having studied in Lima, Lisbon and Kiel, I am passionate about coastal regions and inter- as well as transdisciplinary knowledge transfer. During my time at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact…
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Boston. Dermmillah’s research explores issues of environmental governance, focusing on the design and performance of government wildlife institutions and advocating for inclusive governance models that integrate the livelihood needs of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Drawing on historical and legal analysis, local perspectives, and spatial analysis,…
Anthropologist of health, the environment and collective experimentation. She currently studies community-based initiatives, including citizen science and technologies, to assess and adapt to environmental degradation, as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been working on various topics related to human-environment relations, science and technology studies, citizen science, and global…
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…
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…
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin (DE) with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). Her research focuses on climate adaptation with an emphasis on recognition, onto-epistemic justice and knowledge politics. Katriona works with creative and participatory methods to encourage critical engagement with dominant ways of thinking about climate change. Katriona has also…
Madlen Kobi is assistant professor at the Unit of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg and leads the research project “Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials“ (SNSF-PRIMA, 2022-2026). The project investigates at the intersection of anthropology and architecture the practical challenges of reusing building materials in selected European countries. The analysis of reuse practices…
