Members

We are a transdisciplinary group of researchers with different geographical, cultural and scholarly backgrounds. What connects us is our interest in collaborating in order to effectively contribute to sustainable change by means of research-based activities.

How to become a member?

As a network member, you are part of an inclusive platform for interaction; your interests and work are presented in the network webpage, and you are invited to propose and partake in activities supporting the purpose and scope of the network. Through the network’s emailing list, you can receive and send information about initiatives relevant to sustainable change.

If you are interested, please send an email to suchresearch.net@gmail.com. Include a brief biographical note (describing your research/artistic interests in no more than 100 words and one to three key sustainability-related publications/experiences) in the email, and also approve the aims and scope of SUCH. Please also indicate potential interest to become a more active member by joining working groups.

Steering committee

Herman Stål, Co-Director

Researcher, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Administration, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics. The interest in sustainable change departs from conflicts between conventional economic approaches, both on system and business levels, and issues of ecological sustainability and global justice. Current and recent research includes the roles of social innovation, business counseling, policy and biology in a process of sustainable change.

David Skrbina, Co-Director

Visiting researcher and lecturer, Univ of Helsinki. Former professor of philosophy, Univ of Michigan (2003 to 2018). Currently research issues related to sustainability and sufficiency, with an emphasis on the "I=PAT" relationship, in which environmental impact is a function of population, affluence, and technology. Most recent publications: (1) "On the present and future of panpsychism" in "Consciousness and its Place in Nature" (G. Strawson, et al), 2024. (2) published an expanded 2nd edition of "The Jesus Hoax" (Creative Fire Press, 2024).

Lisa Juangbhanich, Co-Director

Postdoctoral Researcher working on the Circular Bioeconomy of Wellbeing. Former project coordinator for the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Cities and Transformative Technology at University College London, the Office of the UCL Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement). Holding a PhD in Planning Studies from the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL), a first degree in architecture from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and an MSc in Sustainable Urbanism from the Bartlett School of Planning, her main research interest is within areas of sustainability for the built environment and business practice. Particular research interests include the examination of sustainable development (sustainable urbanisation, sustainable property development, green building practice) in relation to responsible behaviour at corporate and individual levels.

Pasi Heikkurinen

Professor of Sustainable Business at LUT University; Research Director and Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Economy at University of Helsinki; and Adjunct Professor of Sustainability and Organizations at Aalto University. Pasi also acts as Chair of The Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science (YHYS). His research project could be described as a phenomenology of sustainability. The focus of his work concerns questions of economy, technology, and culture in relation to sustainable change, particularly in the context of food and agriculture.

Toni Ruuska

Toni Ruuska (D.Sc.) is Lecturer in Food Economy and Adjunct Professor of Sustainable economy at the University of Helsinki. He is the co-editor of Sustainability beyond Technology (Oxford University Press, 2021) and the author of Reproduction Revisited: Capitalism, Higher Education and Ecological Crisis (Mayfly Books, 2019). In his research, Ruuska seeks to find avenues for alternative agrarian political economy. Theoretically he is involved in ecological Marxism, ecofeminism, and (eco)phenomenology.

Research project: The Underdogs of the Just Transition: A Multivoiced Study of Silent Sustainability Actors, 2024-2027, Funded by the Kone Foundation.

Research project: Skills of Self-Provisioning in Rural Communities, 2021-2024, Funded by the Research Council of Finland.

Members

Adrián Almazán is currently a tenured professor; holding a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2018), a Master in Logics and Philosophical Argumentation (2015) and a High Degree in Physics (2013). I teach Ecological Humanities and Philosophy of science and technology at Carlos III University of Madrid. My fields of specialization are: Political Ecology, Ecological Humanities, Philosophy of Technics, Commons theories and New Ruralities Studies. Key publications: Almazán, A. (2024). A socio-historical ontology of technics: Beyond technology. Environmental Values, 33(1), 12-27; Almazán, A.;Riechmann, J. (2023). Desafíos poliéticos de las transiciones energéticas Arbor. 199(807), pp.a689; HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01. 101086202, Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice (Speak4Nature). Comisión Europea.PIs: Rodrigo Míguez (Universidad del Piamonte Oriental) and Adrián Almazán (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). 01/01/2023-31/12/2026. speak4nature.eu/

Angela Moriggi is a social scientist with six years experience working for transdiciplinary research projects focused on both rural and urban sustainability. She is currently Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland – Luke, external PhD candidate at Wageningen University, and Marie Curie Fellow of SUSPLACE (Sustainable Place Shaping), an Innovative Training Network funded by the EU. Her PhD focuses on Green Care practices in Finland, where she investigates the experiences of social entrepreneurs and the potential of practices to regenerate place-based natural and social resources. Driven by ethical desire to contribute to transformative research, Angela experiments with participatory, inclusive, and arts-based methodologies. 

Annika Nordlund is Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department at the Department of Psychology, and Director of Research at the Transportation Research Unit (TRUM), at Umeå University. The interest in sustainable change focuses on a wide range of both motives and barriers for individual behavioral change, foremost in the behavioral fields of transportation and energy use. Current and recent research includes the roles of attitudinal factors such as values, beliefs and norms, and in addition goal frames, acceptability of policy measures, and behavioral intentions and actual behavioral change.

Anu Valtonen is Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Sciences, Finland. She works at the interface of marketing, organization and tourism studies. Her research interests relate to critical and feminist theories, qualitative methodologies, bodies, senses, and sleep cultures. Recently, she has been engaging with feminist new materialism, affect theories, and more-than-human methodologies. Her work has been published, for instance, in Qualitative Inquiry, Human Relations, Management Learning, Organization, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Material Culture, Journal of Marketing Management, Consumption, Markets and Culture, and Tourism Studies, as well as in books and book chapters.

Ben Robra is PhD Candidate in the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the University of Leeds and Demonstrator for MSc module ‘Business, Environment and Sustainability’. His research focuses on organisations for a degrowth society, and in particular, on the questions how organisations can help to reduce matter-energy throughput and how they might help to achieve degrowth paradigm shifts. Digitalisation, digital commons, and alternative modes of production are especially interesting for his in relation to degrowth. He holds an MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds and a BA in Business Administration from the Hamburg School of Business Administration. 

Bodo Steiner is Professor of Food Economics at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Economics and Management, and Head of the Research Group ‘Food Economics and Business Management for Sustainable Food Systems.’ His overall research interests focus on triple-bottom-line sustainability in food systems, and relate to organizational studies and business management issues in agri-food value chains and value networks. His recent research interests include social capital theory and its application to the Economy of the Common Good.

Christian Kerschner is an economist and Assistant Professor at Masaryk University Brno and Modul University Vienna. He holds a PhD and a master’s degree in ecological economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a master’s in business and economics from the University of Vienna. His main research interests are economic vulnerabilities to Peak Oil, attitudes towards and the role of technology for societal transformation and alternatives macroeconomic narratives with respect to economic growth i.e. Steady State Economy, Degrowth and Post-Growth. Currently he is completing a book about his PhD research on impacts and vulnerabilities in the case of oil price shocks using alternative approaches within the Input-Output analytical (IOA) framework. 

David Skrbina is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.  His areas of research include philosophy of technology, environmental ethics, and philosophy of mind.  He is the author of The Metaphysics of Technology (2015; Routledge) and Panpsychism in the West (2nd ed. 2017; MIT Press) and editor of Mind That Abides: Panpsychism in the New Millennium (2009; John Benjamins). He also has edited a series of four textbooks for undergraduate philosophy courses.  Dr. Skrbina has been a visiting professor of philosophy at Michigan State University, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Gent, in Belgium. 

Dushyant Manchandia is currently in the final semester of his Masters degree in Environmental Management and Policy at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund, Sweden. His research focuses on the aspect of longevity and validity of behaviour change for sustainable lifestyles and sustainable consumption. He is presently part of a project supporting a transition towards sustainable lifestyles combining both behavioural and structural elements and is interested in the tension between notions of well-being and ecological economics and the present consumption driven ideas of development.

Eeva Houtbeckers (D.Sc. Econ. & Bus. Adm.) works on a 4-year postdoctoral project funded by Nessling Foundation and Kone Foundation. She is affiliated with the Department of Design at Aalto University and NODUS research group. Eeva’s postdoctoral research is a sensory ethnography on post-growth work practices in the global North inspired by ecofeminist thinking. She follows Finnish projects on self-sufficiency, land rights, and forest protection.Her doctoral dissertation ‘Mundane social entrepreneurship’ focused on Finnish microentrepreneurs’ work in sectors that address sustainability challenges. 

Elina Närvänen is University Lecturer of marketing (University of Tampere) and docent in consumer behavior and consumer research (University of Jyväskylä). She is an expert on interpretive consumer research as well as the practice theoretical perspective to consumption. Her current research interests include sustainable consumption practices and business models, consumption communities, food waste, and qualitative research methodologies. She leads a research group focusing on sustainable consumption at the University of Tampere. She has published in several international journals, including Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Service Management, Journal of Consumer Behaviour and European Journal of Marketing.

Emily Höckert is a Postdoctoral fellow in tourism studies at the Linnaeus University in Sweden in the Department of Organisation and Entrepreneurship. In the broadest level, her research is driven by curiosity of how hosts and guests – human and more-than human – welcome each other in tourism settings. She approaches the questions of hospitality, ethics, care and storytelling at the crossroads of hermeneutic phenomenology, postcolonial philosophy and new materialism. Her articles have been published in Annals of Tourism Research, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism and Hospitality and Society. She is the author of Negotiating Hospitality (2018 Routledge) and co-author of Disruptive Tourism and Its Untidy Guests (2014 Palgrave MacMillan), which both discuss about relational ways of being in tourism settings. 

Essi Nuorivaara is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation will be an outcome of the research project Enoughness in energy use: Sustainable and sufficient energy consumption in Finland (ENUSE). Her research interests include sufficiency in the micro-and macroeconomic levels, as well as the alternative approaches to economic growth. Her background is in environmental and sustainability sciences.

Eva Alfredsson is Researcher at KTH at the Division of Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering (SEED). At KTH she has been part of the research project Beyond GDP as well as a research project on policy synergies. Eva Alfredsson is a senior analyst at the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis. At Growth Analysis Eva´s work is concentrated to analyses related to sustainable economic development and green structural change. Her research interests are how to transition the current unsustainable economy into one which is resilient, inclusive and sustainable. Eva is also member of Future Earths Working Group on the Political Economy of Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Eva Cudlínová, Associated Professor was educated at the University of Economics in Prague, as an economist.  She is working at the University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Economics, Ceske Budejovice.  She is a lecturer of "Ecological and Environmental Economics".  Among her main fields of interest are problems of sustainable development, resource management, economic methods of valuing nature.    She is a member of board  of International Society for Ecological Economics. From 2001 till now, she used to be coordinator of the Czech part of the EU Framework projects. The  present is H2020 EU project POWER4BIO: emPOWERing regional stakeholders for realising the full potential of European BIOeconomy (2018-2021).

Evangelia Paschalidou (LLB, LLM) is currently concluding her MSc in Environmental Management and Policy in the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University. Her research project is on the environmental sustainability of digital presence of Cultural Heritage Organisations and sufficiency organisational models. Communication and openness are of her favorite themes, She has been experimenting through collaborative projects, on authenticity and art for reducing consumption.

Fabian Telschow is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, San Diego working on statistical methodology for neuroimaging and climate. Currently, he is a long term guest researcher at the WIAS in Berlin. His further interest include ethics, social systems and philosophy of science and technology. He also is a political activist against plastic pollution.

Frederik Dahlmann is Associate Professor of Strategy & Sustainability at the University of Warwick. His research interests are driven by a focus on understanding how companies respond to and integrate global sustainability challenges into their business strategies, management practices and corporate governance systems. More specifically, he studies how companies address multiple sustainability challenges, their strategic engagement with policy frameworks such as the UN SDGs and Earth System Governance, and the role of sustainable business models in driving industry transformation.

Hande Sinem Ergun is Professor of Management and Organization at Marmara University Business School, İstanbul, Turkey. She received his Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management from Middlesex University and completed Ph.D. in Management and Organization (in English) at Marmara University, in 2006. Between 2013-2021, she worked as Entrepreneurship and Commercialization module manager at Marmara University Innovation Technology and Transfer Application and Research Center (MITTO). She has also done mentoring for startups and SMEs. The main research areas are in the field of entrepreneurship, innovation and research methods in social sciences.

Haris Shekeris has broad interests including philosophy and, more recently, Karl Polanyi's 'The Great Transformation'. Haris likes to combine action and theory, philosophy, democracy, sustainability and art. He works on democracy, relativism and science. A philosopher (alive) that he follows and consults is Martin Kusch, and he has recently found bliss in XR activism.

Herman Stål is Researcher, Senior Lecturer and Research Director for the Research Institute for Sustainability and Ethics in Business (RiseB) at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics. His research seeks to understand the persistence of unsustainable and controversial practices, for instance in relation to climate change and waste. Current and recent research includes the roles of business models, social innovation, entrepreneurship, power and institutions linked to sustainability-related inertia and change.

Hervé Corvellec is Professor in Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden. His current research focuses on waste and its management, but has even a research experience in railroad planning, windpower siting, and public transportation management, as well as risk and ethics. His research is often transdisciplinary and he has published, for example, in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Environment and Planning A, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Cleaner Production, the Journal of Material Culture, the Journal of Risk Research, Organizations, Waste Management and Waste Management and Research.

Heta Leinonen is Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Management and Business at Tampere University. She holds an MSc in Management and Organizations from Tampere University. Her current research interests are focused on stakeholder engagement, a circular economy, and degrowth.

Iana Nesterova is a final year PhD student at the University of Derby. Her PhD and research interest is on the micro level and production side of the economy, especially on the potential and practicalities of small firms to transition towards a sustainable economy and society, as envisioned in the degrowth movement. She works with pro-environmental, pro-social, values driven small firms to co-create a framework for a degrowth business. In this process, She also tries to understand what motivates business owner-managers to operate their businesses in this manner, as well as what the barriers such firms face in current setting are. 

J. Mohorčich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. His work examines the ways that critical infrastructure services (e.g. for delivering nutrition, contraception, potable water, electricity, and shelter) structure the political. He has a chapter describing the causes and effects of constructing global networks of computational power and resource consumption in Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017). He has also published articles with the Sentience Institute, where he is a research fellow, on social change and technology adoption.

Jana Lozanoska is Doctor of Peace and Conflict studies at the UN-mandated University for Peace, San Jose Costa Rica and has obtained an LL.M degree in international humanitarian law from the University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. Her doctoral research is a critique on human rights that is based on the idea of human dignity as proposed by the German-Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt. Her current research interests are in the field of human rights, transitional justice and political theory including temporality of justice and Anthropocene.She has published several articles on human rights, democracy and rule of law and edited two publications. 

Jarkko Pyysiäinen is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and Docent in Sustainable Entrepreneurship, at the University of Helsinki, with a disciplinary background in social psychology. His current research focuses on questions of agency, skills and social change; forms and limits of entrepreneurship and change agency; and prospects of sustainable change in various societal contexts.

Jessica Jungell-Michelsson is a PhD Student at the University of Helsinki, Department of Economics and Management. Her research focuses on understanding strong sustainability and eco-sufficiency in an organizational context, particularly in the food system. She holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Hanken School of Economics and has over 10 years of consultancy experience from different business organizations.

Joonas Uotinen is currently working on his PhD on culturally sensitive, ecologically sustainable global well-being at the economic sociology department of University of Turku. Some of his ongoing research projects are the types of social capital and their differing relations to well-being and prosperity; and the (non-) existence of culture-nature duality and its relation to conceptions of well-being amongst indigenous tribes in Central India. He has also recently been involved in founding the group Turku 1.5 which aims to ensure that the actions required for not exceeding the 1.5 celsius global warming are done locally where he lives, and he daily explores buddhism through, amongst others, zen mediation.

Juha Helenius is Professor of Agroecology, University of Helsinki. In recent years, his main focus of research has been in co-creating a model for localized food production our group calls agroecological symbiosis (AES). The concept is illustrated in their blog, and currently they work on creation of networks of AES, with Central Uusimaa as our pilot region. AES refers, in analogy to more generic industrial symbiosis, to an organization of farming, bioenergy production and food processing in which the participating companies are in close proximity to allow for nutrient recycling, energy self-sufficiency and production of bioenergy for sale based on biomasses not competing with but enhancing food production, and processing of primary products from farming to foods with local identity. The AES seeks to be a model for improving income, revitalizing rural livelihoods, restoring citizen’s sense of food and community and boosting food cultures.

Katariina Koistinen is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku in the department of Management and Organisation. Her research interests include the practices and rationales for individuals to contribute to sustainability and the question of how organizations act as agents of sustainability transitions. Her current research focuses on active agents of sustainability transitions.

Kristoffer Wilén is a PhD student at Hanken School of Economics. He is mainly working within the fields of political ecology and social ecological economics. His research interests include: the political dimensions of human-environmental relations, the post-political climate and neoliberalisation of environmental debates, environmental and economic history, subjectification and power within consumption and work, identity formations, materialist perspectives on feminism and anti-racism, the commodification and economisation of everything in market(ing) society – and some of the alternatives to this: degrowth, commons, solidarity economy.

Lucas Haskell is a PhD student at Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics. His dissertation explores how social innovations can lead to a more strongly sustainable society. Moreover, he is interested in how the sharing economy can lead to more sustainable production and consumption practices. Lastly, his research aims to discover sustainable business models for social innovations.

Lucie Middlemiss is an Associate Professor in Sustainability at the University of Leeds and Co-Director of the Sustainability Research Institute. Her research lies in the boundary between social and environmental issues, with a particular focus on consumption, community and vulnerability. She has written the first ever textbook on Sustainable Consumption which was published this year. Lucie currently leads an interdisciplinary team of academics in building more sophisticated understandings of the vulnerability caused by energy poverty, by revisiting a large body of secondary qualitative research.

Lummina (Ina) Horlings has studied land- and water-management and human geography, holds a PhD in Policy Science, worked at the Telos centre of sustainability, and is currently employed as Professor Socio-Spatial Planning at the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. Her work broadly deals with 'the human factor' in planning. She is involved in two Marie Curie ITN programs, on sustainable place-shaping (SUSPLACE) and resourceful communities (RECOMS). Research interests: sustainable place-shaping, sustainable (place-based) development, self-governance, collaboration, sustainable citizens initiatives, place leadership, (cultural) sustainability, values. She is a member of the Steering Group Sustainable Society at the RUG.

Maira Babri is Senior Lecturer in Örebro University School of Business. Her research interests include: Methods and methodologies for inclusiveness. Interactionist and relational ontologies. taking holistic and circular approaches to reality. Sustainability as human and non-human interaction, interdependence and co-organization. Global and inclusive approaches to ethics.  

Marcus Petz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä. His research interests are currently focused on resilience and rural regeneration around green economics. He is involved in climate justice activism and regenerative culture developments. He interacts with regencommunities.net, Extinction Rebellion, and happily collaborates with others in trying to build alternatives within the participatory collaborative action research paradigm. He holds an MSc in Mountain Forestry from The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna and  BSc. Hons. in Biology Geology from Manchester University.

Mari Niva, PhD, is currently Professor of Food culture at the University of Helsinki (2018–2021). Her field of expertise lies in the study of food culture and the social and cultural aspects of eating. In international and national projects, she has studied eating patterns in the Nordic countries, the consumption and future prospects of meat and plant-based proteins, weight management as a practice, and consumer appropriation on food-related innovations. Currently her research focuses on veganism, meat eating, political consumption, and sustainability transitions in food. Her recent publications include, among others, articles in Geoforum, Ecological Economics and edited collections on veganism and Nordic eating patterns. 

Marileena Mäkelä (M.Sc. in Eng. & in Econ.) is Researcher in  Corporate Environmental Management at Jyväskylä University School  of Business and Economics. At the moment, she is finalizing her doctoral thesis with the title "Past, present and future of environmental reporting in the Finnish forest industry". Besides her doctoral thesis, she has studied sustainability reporting and employee perspective on sustainability. She teaches in Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Turku School of Economics, and Tampere University of Applied Sciences. She has published her studies in journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainable Development, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Forest Policy and Economics. 

Martin Fritz works as a researcher in the BMBF funded Junior Research Group 'Mentalities in flux: imaginaries and social structure in modern circular bio-based societies' (flumen) at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Bonn and was a researcher at the University of Bielefeld as well as at the European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Reseach (EUROLAB) at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, in Cologne, Germany. His current research interests are the empirical analysis of social-ecological attitudes, perceptions of nature as well as the study of the changes in labor markets and employment caused by the increasing importance of the bioeconomy. Another focus of his work are the relationships between social policy and environmental protection (sustainable welfare). He primarily conducts quantitative empirical research from an international comparative perspective. With his research, he hopes to contribute to the sustainability transformation towards a degrowth or post-growth society.

Mikael Malmaeus is working at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, where part of his research concerns how the economy can be transformed beyond GDP growth in the Antropocene. He recently co-edited a volume named Ekonomi för Antropocen. In his research he has addressed the concept of GDP and how the economic values of goods and services reflect resource use rather than technology, efficiency or revealed  consumer preferences. He has also addressed the concept of economic sustainability and how negative consequences of low or no growth can be avoided.

Mikko Jalas is Professor of Practice, Sustainable Consumption, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. His interests relate to everyday life, materiality, sufficiency and temporal rhythms of the society. Alternative, more sustainable consumption practices call for better understandings of what and how we care about, attach to and live with. Hence my research on the practice of everyday life, DIY and hobbyist cultures. On a critical note, the lack of skill, the thorough economization of everyday life and the transformation of public and domestic spaces into consumption spaces underlie economic growth and unsustainability.

Minna Autio (D.Sc.) works as a professor of home economic science and teaching at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include greening of consumer society and the cultural practices consumer policy issues, especially green and sustainable consumerism. She is specialized in qualitative research methods and methodology.

Mirja Mikkilä works as Associate Professor at the Department of Sustainability Science and Solutions at Lappeenranta University of Technology. Her expertise covers corporate responsibility and sustainability, environmental economics, natural resource economics, and transition management. Her recent research interests focus on profitability, sustainability and sustainable business models related to natural resource governance and utilizations. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. Furthermore, she has worked over 15 years within international natural resource consulting, and pulp and paper industry operations on four continents, Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Mohammad Al-Saidi is Research Assistant and Professor for Sustainable Development Policy, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar. Prior to this, he as a senior researchers at the Institute for Technology in the Tropics (ITT) at the TH-Köln in Germany. He holds two master degrees in economics and political sciences, and a Ph.D. in economics from Heidelberg University. His research interests include water management, sustainability governance and environmental politics, with a focus on the Arab region as well as the Eastern Nile basin.

Rachel Mazac is a PhD Student in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki in the Future Sustainable Food Systems research group led by Dr Hanna Tuomisto. Rachel is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in systems thinking, sustainable dietary practices, and environmental education. Holding bachelors degrees in biology and environmental studies from Hamline University in the United States and an MSc in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems from the University of British Columbia in Canada, her doctoral research focuses on future sustainable dietary shifts and the systemic impacts on the environment, health, and nutrition security.

Ralf Barkemeyer is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux). Ralf joined KEDGE in early 2015 from the University of Leeds (UK) where he had been lecturing since 2010. Before, he worked as Research Fellow and Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, from where he received his PhD. Ralf received two Master degrees in Environmental Science as well as Business Administration from the University of Lüneburg (Germany). His research focuses on the interface of business, environment and society. In particular, he is interested in the link between CSR and development; corporate sustainability reporting; and corporate sustainability performance assessment. 

Robson Rocha is Associate Professor at the Management Department – Århus University. His current research interests are in sustainable degrowth, ecological economics, health, comparative institutional analysis, and societal transitions. He has a degree in Environmental Sciences from University of Sao Paulo- Brazil and a Ph.D. in Business and Economics from Copenhagen Business School.

Rose Hiquet is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cambridge. In her dissertation she explored the roles of different stakeholders for sustainable value creation. She also co-authored three book chapters on topics related to CSR. The inaction of governments that followed the publication of the last IPCC report and brought about a surge in social movements (eg the Youth Strike movement, the creation and expansion of Extinction Rebellion) led Rose to deeply questioned her research. She started to work with a conservation biologist and she is now developing a faithful epistemic representation of the natural environment in the field of organization and management.

Ryan J. Kemp is a sustainability consultant, author and traveling poet. He has worked in, lived in, and traveled to over forty-five countries in the past nine years learning from different cultural elders, working on grassroots solutions to some of the world's largest issues and writing about it through poetry and prose. Ryan is also a certified YTT-200 hour Ashtanga Yoga teacher taught by Sri. Vijay Gopala in Mysuru, India as well as an Ayurvedic practitioner. He fuses Eastern wisdom and ecological economics into his work around creating sustainable and regenerative systems. His home base is on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

Satu Teerikangas is Professor of Management and Organization (UTU) and Honorary Professor, University College London (UCL). Her background is the study of strategic organizational change and change agency therein, particularly as regards merging and acquiring, see e.g. Handbook of Mergers & Acquisitions (Oxford University Press) and employee engagement. In sustainability, her interest is in climate change strategy implementation (Morris et al., 2015) and engaged sustainability-related agency. She coordinates the Responsibility research & teaching network at Turku School of Economics. In terms of impact, she is keen to awaken world-changing agency.

Silvia Gaiani is a senior researcher at Ruralia Institute, University of Helsinki, where she is leading a research on Entrepreneurship and Innovation towards Sustainable Food Systems. Before joining Ruralia, Silvia has worked as consultant for FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its headquarters in Rome, Italy and WMO, the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland - where she has contributed to reports, projects writing and workshops organization. Her research and consultancy activities focus on the sustainability of the food supply chain, innovation, entrepreneurship and consumers' studies.

Stefano Ghinoi is Postdoc Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Economics and Management. His research interests lie in the areas of organizational networks, innovation, and policy evaluation. Moreover, he has a strong interest in agri-food sustainability and management. His current researches investigate: a) how intra- and inter-organizational networks support innovative processes and impact economic performance and sustainability\, b) the role of individual and organizational absorptive capacity, c) the influence of knowledge networks on food waste management systems, and d) the relationship between social capital and absorptive capacity.

Steffen Böhm is Professor in Organisation & Sustainability at University of Exeter Business School. His research focuses on political economy & ecology & justice of the food-energy-water-climate-land-labour nexus. He was a co-founder of the open-access journals ephemera: theory & politics in organization and is co-founder and co-editor of the open-access publishing press MayFlyBooks. He has published five books: Repositioning Organization Theory (Palgrave), Against Automobility (Blackwell), Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets (Mayfly), and The Atmosphere Business (Mayfly), and Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities (Routledge). His new book (with Annika Skoglund), Renewable Energy Activism, is forthcoming with Cambridge.

Sylvia Lorek is chair of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany e.V.  She is working on studies and as consultant for national and international organisations und institutes and active in various national, regional and global networks on sustainable consumption. She holds a Ph.D. in consumer economics based on degrees in household economics and nutrition (Oecotrophologie) as well as economics. The combination of these two disciplines provides her with the tools - the individual micro-economic and the societal macroeconomic perspective - for a well-founded analysis of the contexts, in which the scientific and societal discourses about sustainable consumption take place.

Tarja Salmela is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Sciences/Art and Design, Finland. Her research encompasses topics of sleep and dreaming, body and embodiment, ethico-political insights to organizing, and advancement of qualitative methodologies, which she currently combines with her passion to explore and recognize more-than-human agencies and their various entanglements with human nature. With a background in critical organization studies, her multidisciplinary work is guided by feminist theories and locates to the interface of organization studies, tourism, psychoanalysis and design. Her work has been published in Qualitative Inquiry, Management Learning, and Culture and Organization.

Teppo Eskelinen (PhD Jyväskylä 2009) is a political philosopher and social scientist, working currently as Senior Lecturer in development and international co-operation. His main fields of research are critical development theory and political economy broadly defined (economic justice, economic alternatives, etc). He is also a founding member and chair of the Finnish Society for Political Economy Research.Politicising the economy is his perspective to sustainability.

Thomas Smith is postdoc researcher at the University of Leeds, Sustainability Research Institute. He is interested in identifying how to make biodiversity a fundamental part of business thinking and action. His research focusses on understanding the social and ecological factors that influence business perceptions and actions regarding biodiversity. He seeks to define the challenges faced in achieving reform at organisational and systemic levels and find solutions that achieve outcomes that place society and ecology, rather than profits first. 

Tina Nyfors is a PhD student at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests focus on decreasing emissions from consumption by using the concept of ecological sufficiency. She is the co-author of the report 'The sufficiency perspective in climate policy: How to recompose consumption' published by the Finnish Climate Change Panel in 2020. Her background is within sustainability science, human ecology and journalism.

Tiina Wikström is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Her PhD thesis (2020) from the University of Helsinki focused on the creation of ecologue and nature relationships in native cultures. She will present the notion of ecologue and its application possibilities in social services and emphatic design at Harvard University in 2022. Her research interests include social and cultural sustainability, Gross National Happiness (Bhutan), nature wellness, social circular and doughnut economy, empathy and compassion and circles and cycles of holistic sustainability and glocal wellbeing.

Todd LeVasseur is based in Charleston, SC, USA, where he examines and studies the interface of cultural narratives and identities, with a specific focus on those in the domain we label religion, and how these both shape and are shaped by the natural, “more-than-human” world within globalized political ecologies and the onset of climate triage. His work is thoroughly interdisciplinary, while being comparative and historical in scope and method. He utilizes a variety of social scientific and humanistic research methods to engage the overarching research question that guides his scholarly path: how can the human animal, from individual to global scales, learn to actively generate just, regenerative, resilient, and sustainable behaviors and lifeways as we move into the (m)Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Carboncene, if at all? He has published widely on religion and nature/ecology, sustainability in higher education, sustainable agriculture, and the environmental humanities.

Tommi Lehtonen is Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He specializes in social ethics, cultural philosophy and philosophy of management. His current research focuses on the role of attitudes in decision-making, values and ethics of governance, investment ethics, the concept of a point of view, philosophical questions related to comparative research, and the requirements and impediments for cultural understanding.

Viola Hakkarainen is a researcher at Natural Resources Institute Finland and pursues a Ph.D. as an early stage research fellow in Marie Curie ITN network RECOMS (Resourceful and Resilient Communities). Her current research focuses on nature-based cultures, knowledge systems and actor relationships in relation to sustainability transformations and resilient communities in Kvarken archipelago in Finland. She is inspired by co-creation of knowledge and creative research methods. Questions related to science-society interactions and role of scientists in sustainability transformations are close to Viola’s heart. Viola holds a Master’s degree in Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development from Stockholm Resilience Centre, and has been previously studying knowledge exchange in small-scale fisheries in Zanzibar.