I’m a Mexican from the Global South, but with a broader context from the Global North as well. I work in social innovation and addressing root causes. My main focus is on nature-based social innovation,with a focus on the health, well-being, and cohesion of people and the planet because we are also nature. Country/Region of interest/research focus:Nature Based Social…
Researcher in the Department of Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg and is a PhD candidate at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. She is currently working on the North Sea Region Interreg research project DARKER SKY. The project’s overall aim is to reduce light pollution, thereby increasing biodiversity and ecological connectivity in the North Sea Region. Within the…
Eduardo Damián Valdez is originally from and currently living in Monterrey, in the northeastern region of Mexico. He actively participate in social movements with an eco-anarchist and cooperative focus. His professional and hands-on experience has centered on designing and managing socio-environmental projects rooted in climate justice, eco-urbanism, bio-architecture, and ecopsychology. He is the founder of Colectivo Zenderio (since 2019),…
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…
A transdisciplinary artist, educator, and consultant working in video, installation, performance, and collaboration, Curry centers environmental, economic, political and gender structures. Curry’s research-based practice frames her projects with the diverse location-specific narratives that link non-conventional methods of research and activism. Extending into the areas of urban planning and design, developing projects in collaboration with the communities her work resides,…
Senior researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern. Her current research focuses on sustainable transitions, just food and environmental and consumption behaviour. Further research focuses on resettlements in the context of natural hazards and nature parks. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Switzerland, Brazil, UK Link
Katriona is a research fellow at Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany and a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on climate adaptation and coastal policy with an emphasis on participation and knowledge politics. In her PhD thesis on coastal climate adaptation in Scottish island communities, she uses feminist and decolonial research practice…
Master Student at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, in the programme Sustainability, Society, and the Environment. As a research assistant in the Urban- and Population Geography working group of the CAU his focus is set on processes of green gentrification, energetic retrofitting and energy justice in Kiel. Furthermore, his master thesis will be based on the topic of financialization of the…
Student of the master program “Environmental Management” at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He is currently focusing on socio-technical imaginaries within the hydrogen energy transition in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since Northern Germany has huge potentials for renewable energy production, the construction of a hydrogen energy infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein is on its way. Ravn is researching the social and power relationships between…
Post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven and teaching associate at the Master program in Sustainable Development of the same University. Her current research focuses on community forests and historical commons, socially-differentiated vulnerabilities and female cooperatives, in the context of the argan oil boom and climate change. Further research focuses on sustainable agriculture and water governance from a climate change-(sustainable) development…
