TransForm: Research Group Population, Environment, & Development

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For the last Reading Share of 2024, our colleague Leo shares a paper which emerged from his research on stakeholders and deals with the plurality of perspectives that potentially collide and/or align, when different agendas for change meet. The authors of this article make both a conceptual and a practical contribution to better understand the opportunities and challenges for knowledge co-production processes in the context of sustainability transformations
Read it here: Chambers et al. (2022): Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102422
Additionally, experience the paper in a more creative way, a musical abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JfwUJZL4wo

Co-productive agility for sustainability transformations (musical abstract) This musical abstract tells the story of the paper "Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways for sustainability transformations" (Chambers et al...

Last but not least, we are happy to introduce our new PhD student Songlin Wang on this . With a background in GIS, Songlin will explore the intersection of social science and geoinformatics. His PhD research will focus on the utility of GeoAI in climate mobility issues, looking at mobility data acquisition, measuring human mobility, constructing models to describe environmental events, and much more. Songlin is most excited about creating knowledge about human-environment interactions and contributing to building a more resilient society.

This week in we are happy to introduce Magdalena Berger, our new PhD student and Research Project Assistant!
Magdalena is a dedicated human geographer whose research delves into the intersection of climate change, cultural heritage, and adaptation strategies among indigenous communities. As part of the CuHeMo project, she focuses on agro-pastoralist communities in Ethiopia’s South Omo Valley, with a particular interest in how gendered knowledge systems impact women’s resilience to climate change.

Her favorite part of this work? Learning something new every day while challenging her assumptions. Welcome Magdalena!

We have some exciting news! Over the course of 2024, our team welcomed three new members, and this week on , we introduce Ailín Benítez Cortés. Ailín has a background in climate advocacy, and her PhD research will be dedicated to exploring the limits of migration-as-adaptation, with a regional focus on Latin America. Through her research and fieldwork, she is looking forward to connecting with different people and sharing knowledge and experiences. Welcome to the team!