UVIC UCC

Maria Borràs Escayola

PhD Student


Maria Borràs Escayola holds a degree in Biology and an MSc in Agroecology with a specialization in Gender Studies from Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Previously, she has done research to strengthen the resilience of family farms in Cuba, worked at the university as an assistant professor, as a technician in the Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems, and is currently doing her research on public policies to adapt to climate change with a gender focus within the SEQUAL project in the Universitat de Girona. 


Maria Brockhaus

Professor


Maria Brockhaus is Professor of International Forest Policy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In her research, she focuses on questions of politics and power relations and networks related to forests & climate change mitigation and adaptation and the political economy of deforestation in the Global South.


Andrea Downing

Researcher


Downing’s main research theme is to relate global perspectives on resilience thinking and social ecological systems to sustainable development needs at sub-global scales. Building on her work on the planetary boundaries concept at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, her research focuses on the often undifferentiated and unspecified human dimensions of global sustainability and on understanding how heterogeneously overlapping sub-global processes combine to shape dynamics at a global scale.


Helga Eggebø

Senior Researcher


Helga Eggebø works as a senior researcher at Nordland Research Institute. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Bergen with a thesis on the regulation of marriage migration to Norway. Her key research interests are immigration regulations, ageing and care, and living conditions among lgbtiq people. Eggebø was a member of a governmentally appointed committee on gender equality (2010-2012) and has broad competence on gender research and gender equality policy.


Irene Iniesta Arandia

Researcher


Iniesta Amanda is a researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Her research interest lies in the realm of human and environment interactions and she uses mainly three bodies of work: the social-ecological systems perspective (commons and collective action, ecosystem services, resilience), environmental feminism (feminist political ecology, gender and environment) and political ecology (peasant studies, environmental conflicts)


Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno

Researcher


Jiménez-Aceituno is a researcher in Sustainability Sciences at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her current focus is on envisioning and implementing pathways towards the Sustainable Development Goals with different stakeholders of the semi-arid agricultural system in the SE of Spain. She is working as the coordinator of the Spanish case study in the XPaths project. Additionally, her research aims to build understanding on the features of initiatives that have a high transformative potential, and analyse how to best support these initiatives.


Mawa Karambiri

Postdoctoral Researcher


Mawa Karambiri is a postdoc in International Forest Policy at the University of Helsinki. In her PhD thesis, she examined the (re)translation of global forest policy into local levels in sub-Sahara Africa/Burkina Faso and the implications for local democracy. Her current research relates to the perceptions of gender inequality in public policies in Burkina Faso and in development cooperation/aid.


Federica Ravera

Researcher


Federica Ravera has a transdisciplinary background, and is currently doing research on socio-institutional innovations, collective actions and the role of traditional and local knowledge in adapting to global environmental, cultural and socio-economic changes, especially in agricultural and silvo-pastoral systems in the Andes and Himalayas. She applies a feminist political perspective in the study of adaptation and resilience, and investigates the power dynamics that create inequalities and the differential conditions in socio-economic systems in rural ecology.


Aase Kristine Lundberg

Senior Researcher


Aase Kristine Lundberg currently works as a senior researcher at the Environment and Society Research Group, Nordland Research Institute. She is a human geographer and holds a Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her work focuses on knowledge, participation and legitimacy in natural resource management and environmental governance. She is particularly interested in how conservation conflicts are recognized and acknowledged in decision making processes.


Camilla Risvoll

Researcher


Camilla Risvoll is a researcher at Nordland Research Institute with a PhD in Sociology. Her experience is in interdisciplinary research on impacts from climate change in combination with cumulative effects and how multiple changes affect the adaptive capacity of reindeer husbandry communities in the arctic. Risvoll has particular emphasis on participatory processes and knowledge co-production, risk perceptions, participatory mapping methodology with reindeer herders, land-use issues and governance.


Marta Guadalupe Rivera Ferre

Research Fellow


Marta Guadalupe Rivera Ferre is a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, and the director of the Chair Agroecology and Food Systems. With a multidisciplinary profile in the analysis of the society and environment interactions within agri-food systems, she has a particular interest in alternative agri-food systems following the food sovereignty paradigm and more recently, in the analysis of feminists and commons theories as to be adopted in agri-food research.


Alizée Ville

PhD Student


Alizée is a PhD student at the Department of Forest Sciences at Helsinki University, investigating the inequalities born from the forest sector in the Congo Basin. She previously worked for the Stockholm Resilience Center (Sweden), where her work focused on the intersection between gender and forest policy in Sweden. 


Grace Wong

Researcher & SEQUAL Project Coordinator


Wong’s work has largely converged on assessing social, economic and ecological trade-offs in tropical environments, focusing in particular on the interface of development, socio-political processes and environmental change.  Her current research at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature is on ecosystem services and human wellbeing in dynamic social-ecological systems, with a particular interest on power and equity in the distribution of benefits and risks from natural resource use and governance.