Jakub Ciesielczuk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. Jakub’s expertise covers environmental governance, with a particular focus on environmental legal regimes. Jakub has extensively researched the participation of various non-State actors (e.g., intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, indigenous groups, and individuals) in environmental legal regimes. Jakub also researches the issues related to the utilisation of marine genetic…
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…
I am currently studying for my Master’s degree in “Sustainability, Society and Environment” and as part of this I am attending a seminar that deals with socio-ecological conflicts. In particular, I am currently investigating the conflict in Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. My main focus is on the recognition of indigenous knowledge. In my research, I mainly draw on…
Dr Tobias Müller is Principal Investigator of the project “Democratic Futures: Climate Change, Coloniality and State Legitimacy”, funded through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2024-2027), and a Fellowship at The New Institute, Hamburg. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Oxford, Munich, Leiden, Yale and Cambridge, where he received his PhD in Politics…
Catalina is a Marine Social Science researcher. An anthropologist by heart and training, she has worked at the Colombian Erigaie NGO as an independent researcher and consultant in marine social sciences for over two decades. Her research, situated in critical ocean studies, focuses on ocean justice and marine governance in contested marine areas. Currently, Catalina is a doctoral student…
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…
Jean Carlo Rodriguez is an environmental-social scientist interested in environmental change, environmental governance and equity. At the Alexander von Humboldt Institute in Colombia and the Landbouw Economisch Instituut (LEI) in the Netherlands, he gathered significant experience in designing and implementing NbS to protect ecosystems and biodiversity for the provision of watershed ecosystem services. During his Ph.D. on the political…
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…
