Team Members

Samuel Agblorti

Samuel is a development geographer with a focus on migration (forced and voluntary), refugee integration, and human-nature relations from the perspective of political ecology. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Calgary, Canada, and a certificate in forced migration and refugee issues from York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies. He is an […]

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Victoria Essah

Victoria Essah is a research assistant at the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources Management with a specialization in Agroforestry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Her research interests focus on sustainable management and conservation of natural ecosystems. She is particularly interested in

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Jenia Mukherjee

Jenia’s research interest spans across environmental history, political ecology, and transdisciplinary waters. She is investigating several large-scale global partnership grants, looking at coastal livelihoods in delta ecologies of the global North and South. She is the author of Blue Infrastructures (Springer Nature, 2020), which demonstrates the intertwined relationship between city, nature, and technology in the

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Dexter S. Lo

Dexter is the Founding Director of the XU Engineering Resource Center at Xavier University. He now serves as XU’s Vice President for Social Development. Dexter is a member of the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, which awarded him the Outstanding Achievement Award in the field of Disaster Management. Among his projects is the

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Linda Bana

Linda is experienced with a demonstrated history in extension services, stakeholder engagement, and training related to fisheries management and governance. She has knowledge and interest across a wide range of areas, including sustainable practices, maritime law, building climate resilience in marine ecosystems, and marine conservation. She holds an MSc in Maritime Affairs with a specialization

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Joshua Adotey

Joshua is deeply interested in coastal and ocean processes, particularly how climate change affects natural resources. His primary research centers on carbon stock assessment in coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves. Specializing in coastal zone management, Joshua focuses on the impacts of climate change on coastal livelihoods. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Development Studies

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Kathinka Fossum Evertsen

Kathinka is a sociologist and feminist political ecologist. Her work focuses on knowledge production surrounding questions of human mobilities, gender, aid, and climate change; the politics that shape how these issues are understood and how they intersect; as well as the social effects of the knowledge produced. Her recent work has explored how ‘gender’ is

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Anne Dangerfield

Anne Dangerfield is an earth and environmental scientist focusing on tools and technologies that help assess and mitigate environmental impacts from human activity. Her projects have spanned terrestrial human-wildlife conflict, endangered-species monitoring, animal tracking, and marine industry impacts. She loves data management, data analysis, and a well-organized spreadsheet.  Current Affiliation: Arribada Initiative C.I.C Contact Information:

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Dorina Damsa

Informed by feminist decolonial studies, Dorina’s work examines global inequality regimes, with a focus on the intersections of contemporary legal regimes, gender, and i/mobility. She draws on perspectives from interdisciplinary fields such as sociology of law, legal geography, border criminologies, climate change criminology, and political ecology.  Current Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research,

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Alasdair Davies

Alasdair Davies is the technical director of the Arribada Initiative C.I.C. He has 14 years of experience developing, designing, and deploying conservation technologies globally, working together with Defra—Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs—and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to primarily develop solutions addressing challenges within the humanitarian and wildlife conservation sector(s). Current Affiliation:

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