Carl Nordlund is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a joint position at the Center for Network Science, and the Department of Political Science. He received his PhD in human ecology from the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund university, in september 2010, with undergraduate studies in human ecology, economic history, development studies, economics, political ecology, environmental justice, programming, mathematics, physics, and indonesian. In his thesis monograph, network-analytical methods were applied to international trade flows of agricultural and fuel commodities, examining would-be relations between structural positionality in trade networks and occurrences of ecological unequal exchange. Outside academia, he has worked for the Swedish EPA, WWF Sweden, TV4, KTH, Swedish Space Corporation etc. His research interest is in social network analysis - methods, applications and research design – focusing on political networks and international relations.
TheEnvironmental and Social Justice Action Research Group is a forum for dialogue, research and collective action to promote and achieve environmental and social justice.
Gerda Jónász is a 4th year PhD candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, active member of the Environmental and Social Justice Action Research Group. She was a visiting scholar at ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on the social aspects of local ecological entrepreneurship in the threatened periurban surroundings in Valencia, Spain.
She holds a BA in Economic Diplomacy and International Management (Budapest Business school) and an MSc in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (joint degree under the MESPOM program of Central European University, Lund University, and the University of Manchester). During her master’s research she conducted field research in Spain and obtained a scholarship to do a comparative study in Canada.
Gerda was affiliated to the 3CSEP research center as a junior consultant in the “Post-Lisbon Strategy background research project”, worked for WWF Hungary as an intern and later volunteer.
Her areas of interest are: rural development, environmental justice and the social aspects of sustainable agriculture.
Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.
