George Holmes

George is Associate Professor in Conservation and Society at the University of Leeds. He is interested in issues of biodiversity conservation, as seen from a social, cultural and political perspective. He is also looking at re-wilding initiatives and projects to turn landscapes dominated by human activities into landscapes dominated by natural processes, both in Patagonia and in Europe. […]


Nicola Favretto

Dr Favretto is an interdisciplinary social scientist based at the Sustainability Research Institute. He has a PhD in Environmental Sustainability and experience in mixed-method, multi-level research addressing environmental, economic and policy dimensions of sustainable development across dryland sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. His core competencies include participatory livelihood impact assessments focused on agro-ecosystems, policy and […]


Kathy Hochstetler

Kathy is also Professor of International Development at the LSE and is the on the editorial team of Review of International Political Economy, associate editor of Journal of Politics in … read more »


Torsten Thiele

Torsten’s work focuses on ocean ecosystems governance and blue finance. This includes developing linkages between climate adaptation and marine ecosystems governance and finance. Background Torsten Thiele spent over 20 years … read more »


Giles Atkinson

Giles is professor in Environmental Policy at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is affiliated with Centre for Social and Environmental Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), at the University of East Anglia, as an Honorary Fellow. Background Giles joined the Department of Geography […]


Veerle Heyvaert

Veerle is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press). Background In 1998 to 1999, Veerle was the inaugural Sir Peter North Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College, […]


Sally Russell

Sally Russell has a background in organisational behaviour and organisational change, with a focus on business, sustainability, and the natural environment. Her research focuses on behaviour change for sustainability and examines factors that affect individual, group, and organisational responses to environmental issues. In all areas of her research, Sally works closely with industrial partners to […]


Rosalind Bark

Rosalind is an environmental economist. She is a lecturer in Ecological Economics in the School of Environmental Sciences teaching Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. Previously she was a European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow, in the Sustainability Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the School of Earth and Environment, University of […]


Jonathan Busch

Jonathan joined SRI as a Research Fellow in November 2011, appointed jointly between the School of Earth and Environment and the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure in the School of Civil Engineering. His research is in the fields of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology,  studying the technological, economic and social basis for a transition to sustainable, low carbon […]


Joel Millward-Hopkins

Joel is a Research Fellow in the School of Earth & Environment at the  University of Leeds. Over the past seven years, his research has (consciously) meandered its way from scientific aspects of decentralised renewable energy – which were the focus of his doctorate – to investigate and develop methods of financing low-carbon transitions, of measuring and mitigating […]