De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth

Lauren Eastwood is a senior researcher at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, where she leads the policy field of Global Governance of Climate Change and Sustainability. She is also Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. She has gathered ethnographic data over 25 years at more than 50 UN meetings in order to analyze the making of policy pertaining to climate, biological diversity, forests, and Indigenous peoples. She also engages in research on the increasing criminalization of anti-fossil-fuel infrastructure activism.

Kai Heron is a lecturer in political ecology at Lancaster University. He has research interests in the politics of land, agriculture, green transitions, and contemporary political theory. He is a founding member of Abundance, a participatory action cooperative that seeks to democratize the economy by expanding the commons.