Senior Researcher in Integrative Geography at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on agroecological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa with a critical perspective and an emphasis on social justice aspects. His research has the overall objective of integrating social-ecological thinking and the idea of justice. This includes conceptual and empirical work looking at environmental justice issues in telecoupled…
Member of the interdisciplinary FWF Young Independent Research Group “Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime” at Innsbruck University. His current research focuses on (i) alternatives in the corporate food regime (including values like solidarity and trust), (ii) method development in the realms of viscerality to combine traditional methods with beyond rational/multisensory approaches, (iii)…
Professor of public law with a focus on public international law including the law of the sea at Kiel University and co-director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law. Member of the Cluster of Excellency „Future Ocean“ and, since 2017, one of the co-speakers. Adjunct professorship at Dalhousie University in Halifax and was adjunct professor at the K.G….
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….
Judith is a postdoc with the Institute for Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture (ISPA) at the University of Vechta. Her study deals with the use of local knowledge in smallholder practices, and sustainable farming approaches such as organic farming, natural farming or agroforestry. She works on how farmers include sustainable farming to stabilise their livelihoods…
Sören Weißermel is a human geographer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Kiel University. Areas of interest are human-environmental relations, critical development studies, urban studies and urban climate politics. In his PhD-project, he focused on processes of dispossession and precarization of marginalized and invisibilized people and lifeforms in the context of the construction of the Belo Monte…
Author and Expert for Sustainable Development since the 1990s. Active in diverse political and scientific contexts, especially circular society, implementing the rights of nature. I am interested in ecological economy, degrowth and transformation theory and discourses. I have worked intensively on the importance of craftsmanship for sustainable development (because of its time-intensive and highly satisfying way of working and…
Researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre on Chiapas and the Southern Border -CIMSUR- at the National Mexican Autonomous University -UNAM-. Her current research in the transborder region between Chiapas and Guatemala focuses on climate change adaptation, rural sustainable production systems and borderland issues. She integrates political ecology and borderland studies into the field of climate change adaptation. Further research…
Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc-Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a PhD in Geography by the University of Hamburg, promoted with a scholarship by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung within the research cluster on transformation studies. In her dissertation project she analyzed processes of spatial empowerment in the urban and peri-urban agriculture in…
Human geographer and currently working as Research Associate at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation focused on the political geographies of the struggles for food sovereignty in Bolivia where he conducted several months of ethnographic research. His main research interests are political geography, political ecology, geographies of food, and…
