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…
Elisa Privitera (Lizzy) is a researcher and practitioner, contributing to spatial environmental justice-related initiatives and with experiences in Italy, Canada, California, and Sweden. Her work draws on participatory planning, environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental justice and South studies. Lizzy has achieved significant academic milestones, including being awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a research exchange at the University of California,…
Isabelle Desportes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, An-Institut at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and lecturer at the RWTH Aachen. She researches the (hidden) politics of disaster prevention and humanitarian response, including in authoritarian conflict settings, and co-coordinates the Centre Marc Bloch’s research group on ‘Environment, Climate, Energy’ since October 2024. Her current research project,…
Friedrich Neu is a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Geography of Global Change at Freiburg University, with a teaching focus on climate change adaptation through excursions mainly to Switzerland and Ghana and through seminars scrutinizing adaptation processes in the Global South. His current PhD research is grounded in the interplay of anthropogenic climate change and human-induced environmental…
Hartmut Fünfgeld is Professor of Geography of Global Change at the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University Freiburg. He also has an affiliation as Adjunct Professor with the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Hartmut studies the social and institutional dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation to climate change,…
Irmak Ertör is an assistant 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…
Dr. Francesca Rosignoli (PhD 2016) is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public Law at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), member of the CEDAT and coordinator of EJ-ITALY, the first research group made up of women only focusing on Environmental Justice (EJ) in Italy. Her research interests include environmental justice, global environmental governance, climate change, climate-induced migration, and…
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium. Main research focuses on the global and local nexus between the environment and processes of social change, and more specifically in the socio-political dynamics triggered by (international) conditional climate change/development finance instruments, such as carbon and biodiversity markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), and green microfinance….
She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings…
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…
