Professor Prakash C. Tiwari, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Kumaun University, Nainital, India, is a distinguished authority on Mountain Natural Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation. He currently serves as Expert Consultant for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Spring Assessment Outlook at ICIMOD, Kathmandu, while also holding key international roles as Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project (ESG)…
I am a postdoctoral researcher working on the politics of knowledge and power in global environmental governance. My work examines how legitimacy, inclusivity, and justice are negotiated within the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement and in emerging review mechanisms under the Rio Conventions, drawing on Science and Technology Studies, political sociology, and sustainability studies. I am part of…
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…
Iván Vargas-Chaves has taught at universities in Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Spain, and Peru, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Law at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Colombia, and member of the Intellectual Property in the Biosciences Group at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin….
Ben Glasson is an interdisciplinary researcher of climate change, subjectivity and narrative, with a background in political theory and cultural studies. His research explores the implications of climate apathy, greenwashing, environmental hypocrisy and corporate environmentalism. He has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of Political Ideologies, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Link Link Country/Region…
Dr. Rosa Felicitas Philipp is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Economic and Social Geography Group at Heidelberg University. She completed her PhD at the University of Bern with the dissertation “Defensa de la vida (Defence of Life): Infrastructured Bodies, Care and Resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.” In her doctoral research, she examined the resistance of Indigenous women against…
Christian Buske holds a degree in biology and a master’s degree in administrative sciences and worked in environmental protection and nature conservation before becoming head of management training in the education sector in Schleswig-Holstein. He has been working as a ministerial councilor for the state government in Schleswig-Holstein since 2018. He is the editor of the blog The Future…
Sophie Baban hold a Master’s degree in Environmental and Resource Economics. In her thesis, she applied concepts from Ecological Economics to develop a shadow price for biodiversity in order to assess the impacts of illegal elephant trade in Africa and to highlight the resulting ecological and social conflicts.This engagement with global justice issues deepened her understanding of the connections…
Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical…
Devrim Eren is a doctoral student in Global and Area Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Asian and African Studies. Her research bridges environmental inequalities, intersectionality and decolonial praxis. Her work, based in the urban peripheries of India, focuses on the entanglement of pre-colonial sociocultures, colonial vestiges and neoliberal influences in shaping waste (picking) as part of the…
