Catalina is a marine social science researcher working within critical ocean studies. Her research focuses on ocean justice and marine governance in contested marine regions, particularly to the role of alternative legalities in addressing conflict, shaping equity and decolonizing ocean governance in the Caribbean. She examines issues related to international maritime boundary-making, the militarization of the ocean, traditional sea…
Wendy Chávez is an economist (Polytechnic School of Guayaquil, Ecuador) and holds a master’s degree in public administration (New York, USA) and a master’s degree in human settlements (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is a junior researcher and PhD student in Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn. Her thesis project is…
Irmak Ertör is an associate professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in…
I am working as a senior researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn. I am interested in the political ecology of conservation and development, climate politics and agrarian change. Currently, I am working on the socio-ecological transformation of the Jakarta Bay and of the Elbe estuary. My research has mainly focused on Indonesia, Northern…
Anna Lena Bercht is a human geographer and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography at the University of Kiel. Previously, she was a guest researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at the Stockholm University and at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at the Freie University Berlin. Her research lies at the interface of geography and psychology,…
