A large network of people has contributed and continues to inspire, guide, and advise the work of the EJAtlas. Read some of their profiles here, and feel free to get in touch with them!

Lucie Greyl

Lucie Greyl is an environmental and climate justice activist based in Italy, president of CDCA (Documentation Centre on Environmental Conflicts) and member of the ecologist organisation A Sud since 2008.  Lucie was an active member of the EJOLT project and contributed first hand in the design and development of the EJAtlas. Launched in 2015, CDCA launched the Italian Atlas of Environmental Conflict, a national atlas developed from the global environmental justice atlas (EJAtlas) coordinated by Lucie. Anthropologist in training, Lucie has been feeding her engagement for environmental and climate justice working at the crossroad between research, activism and education and developing through the years her expertise in topics and tools such as environmental conflicts, participatory environmental monitoring and climate litigation.

Ksenija Hanaček

Ksenija is a political ecologist and “Margarita Salas” international postdoctoral fellow at Global Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki (2021-2024). She is the director of the Master Program in Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth at ICTA-UAB, where she obtained her Doctoral degree. She is an active collaborator of the EJAtlas project and member of the Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. Her research focuses on the Arctic region, human-nature relationships, climate coloniality, the Belt and Road Initiative expansion to the Arctic (“Polar Silk Road”), nuclear supply chain and environmental justice struggles in post-Soviet spaces, and coal extraction conflicts in southwestern Siberia. She studies environmental conflicts through different theoretical focuses, such as extractivism, peripheralization, and colonialism. Her methodological expertise includes statistical modelling, qualitative coding, meta-analysis, and network analysis. Her work has been published in international scientific journals, such as Global Environmental Change, Ecological Economics, and Nature Sustainability.

For more Information: Ecological Economics Barcelona, EXALT, The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 

Nina Limacher

Nina is assisting Joan Martinez-Alier in his work. She has a background in political sciences and holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Contemporary Eastern Asia (Sciences Po Lyon - ENS Lyon). She also graduated from the master's degree in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice at ICTA-UAB. In parallel, she is the secretary of the board of the Refugee Women’s Centre, a grassroot organisation providing holistic support to migrant women and families in the informal camps in Calais and Grande-Synthe, at the border between France and the UK.

Email: [email protected]

Juan Liu

Juan Liu holds a PhD in Development Studies. She is associate professor of political ecology and agrarian studies at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU) and a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research interests include energy transitions, waste management, land politics, and the political ecology of agriculture, food, and the environment, etc. She is co-author of the two-volume book Rural Vitalization: Farmers’ Perspectives (SSAP, 2023), co-editor of Rural Transformations and Agro-Food Systems (Routledge, 2018) and Beyond the Global Land Grab (Routledge, 2021). Her publications include research articles on leading international journals such as Global Environmental Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, etc. She is the Affiliated Editor of World Development. As guest editor, she co-edited 4 special issues for different peer-reviewed journals. 

For more information, please refer to:

COHD: http://cohd.cau.edu.cn/art/2020/12/7/art_33315_721366.html 

GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-SCPEYsAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Sara Mingorría

She is Juan de la Cierva Incorporation Research Fellow at Universitat de Girona (UdG), Spain. She  has a master’s degree in Ecological Economics and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the ICTA-UAB. As a postdoc she was part of the EnvJustice team (2016-2020). She is a scholar-activist in the international network Stay Grounded. She is co-founder of the platform Zeroport (more than 160 organisations) for the degrowth of aviation and port infrastructure in Catalunya; the environmental association Mar de Tierras, and the feminist research collective FRACTAL. Her research focuses on agrarian and environmental conflicts and global changes using the Participatory Action Research approach. She explores the links between feminism, economics and ecology and the bridges between action-research-education and art.

For more information, please refer to:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara-Mingorria

X, formerly Twitter: @MingorriaSara

May Aye Naw Thiri 

May currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, and is recognized for her interdisciplinary expertise in political ecology and ecological economics. In her prior role as a Predoctoral Research Fellow at ICTA-UAB (2019-2023), she took part in the EJAtlas project, focusing on environmental conflicts in Japan, Myanmar, and Southeast Asia. This experience has enriched her understanding of the intricate dynamics surrounding environmental issues in these regions. May's academic journey is underscored by her pursuit of knowledge across borders. She earned her Master's Degree in Development Studies from Nagoya University and holds Bachelor Degrees in Policy Studies from Nanzan University and Japanese Studies from Yangon University of Foreign Languages. May is dedicated to exploring the complex interplay of environmental and socio-political forces and is actively engaged in research and teaching within the realm of ecological sustainability. 

For more Information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/May-Aye-Naw-Thiri

Email: [email protected]

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_05290.html

Brototi Roy 

Brototi is a political ecologist and ecological economist working on environmental and climate justice with a focus on coal in the global south. She currently holds a Margarita Salas post-doctoral fellowship, based jointly at ICTA-UAB and Central European University, Vienna. She is also a member of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and co-president of Research & Degrowth. She completed her PhD from ICTA-UAB in 2021 as part of the EnvJustice team. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Calcutta, India and a M.Sc. in Economics (with specialisation in environment and resource management) from TERI University, New Delhi, India.

For more information, please refer to: http://brototiroy.com/ 

X, formerly Twitter: @Brototi

Email: [email protected] 

Teresa Sanz

Teresa Sanz is a scholar and artist. She holds a doctoral degree from ICTA-UAB. She is a collaborator of the Global Environmental Justice Atlas and CLAMOR project - environmental activism, art and justice. Her research project explores the influence and use of artistic and cultural practices in contexts of environmental conflicts. She holds a MSc in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research interests are political ecology, environmental humanities, human geography, aesthetic politics, art theory, social movements and social media studies. Aside from academia, she is part of the street-theatre group Erro Grupo, based in Barcelona and Brazil. She directed the short-film “Under-ground ore”, screened at Arts & SDGS Online Festival as part of Expo2020 Dubai.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-sanz-b26b11220

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=es&user=6CWLCrYAAAAJ

Raquel Neyra

Dr. Raquel Neyra, is an ecological economist and PhD in Sociology of Public and Social Policies from the University of Zaragoza, Post-doctorate at IDEA-UNAL. Master's degree in international economics and MBA from the University Paris I, La Sorbonne. Activist and researcher in socio-environmental conflicts, violence and coloniality. Guest lecturer in the Doctorate in Economics at the National Agrarian University of La Molina. Vice-president of the Andean Society for Ecological Economics. Research interest coloniality, violence, land grabbing, socio environmental conflicts. Member of the Ecologias Políticas desde el sur/Abya Yala working group and the UGR-STAND research group. She works with social movements in Peru sharing ecological economics.

For more information please refer to

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raquel-Neyra

Email: [email protected]

Begüm Özkaynak

Begüm Özkaynak is a professor in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University. Her main research interest lies in better understanding the economic-environment relationship, the root causes of our socio-environmental crises and environmental conflicts, and what behavioral and institutional changes are needed for just sustainability transitions. She was a board member of the European Society of Ecological Economics (ESEE) between 2010-2018 and served as the elected secretary for two terms. She has been serving as co-editor-in-chief of the Ecological Economics journal since 2022. She holds a BA and MA in Economics from Boğaziçi University and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Manchester (with a British Council Scholarship). She received her PhD in Ecological Economics and Environmental Management from ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and was an IGSOC Scholar during this period. 

For more information please refer to:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Begum-Ozkaynak

Email: [email protected]

Cem İskender Aydın

Cem İskender Aydın is an ecological economist, currently working as an assistant professor at Institute of Environmental Sciences at Boğaziçi University. His research covers the topics of energy justice, energy and climate policy/politics, environmental justice and mapping environmental conflicts, and environmental governance. He received his BA and MA in economics from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and his second MA in environmental economics from Toulouse School of Economics, France. He has a PhD in ecological economics from the University of Paris-Saclay, France. Previously, he worked as a researcher in the EU-funded EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (2011-15) and ISC-funded ACKnowl-EJ (Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice) projects.