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…
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…
Laura McAdam-Otto is an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist. She currently leads the research project “Making Algae (In-)Visible: Tourism, Responsibility and Governance in the Caribbean” as Principle Investigator at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Her research is situated at the nexus of cultural anthropology, nature-culture debates, and science and technology studies, and focuses on questions of human-environment relations in…
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…
Francesca Savoldi is a transdisciplinary scholar with a PhD in human geography. Her work concerns the dimensions of power, politics, space and place, currently with a focus on coastal cities and maritime areas. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at TU Delft (2021–2023), she investigated the contested and evolving condition of port cities. Grounded in critical geography and political…
PhD student in Transdisciplinary Sustainability with a background in Agricultural Economics, Sustainable Development and Community Organizing as well as Fund Raising. Wrote and researched on Fast Fashion, then continued in the field of plastic bag usage, development of megacities that lead to more environmental degradation and economic gentrification that displaces people. Margaret Ojochide Aligbe is presently researching on the…
Timothy Adams (Dr. PhD) is Postdoctoral researcher of Human Geography in commercial investments of natural resources, institutional change and innovations, inclusive businesses, gender, and resource governance (e.g., land, water, and forest etc.) at the University of Bern, Institute of geography and member of Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). His current research in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on institutional innovations…
Konrad Ott endeavours in research and teaching to impart the competence of philosophical reflection, the achievements of ethical justification and orientation, such as empirical facts in the environmental field. His philosophical focus is on discourse ethics, environmental ethics, theories of justice, sustainability, ethical aspects of climate change, nature conservation reasons and the normative foundations of environmental policy. During his…
PhD researcher at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her PhD investigates the role of social innovation and gender in attaining sustainable adaptation in coastal social-ecological systems in Bangladesh. Her research covers multi-disciplinary issues connected to gender and feminist theories. Some of the themes she works with are gendered policy, land rights, migration, religion,…
Director and Co-founder of the Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance (Colombia). Member of the Marine Working Group of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW). Member of the Latin American Hub of the Virtual Blue Decade. More than 14 years of experience working on: coastal law, international environmental law, comparative law, environmental migrations, human rights, environmental governance, sustainable development…
