University Initiatives on Climate Change Education and Research

Author Biography

Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DTech, DL, DLitt, FSB, FLS, FRGS) holds the Chairs of Climate Change Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He directs the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme, the largest network of universities specifically focusing on research on matters related to sustainable development. Professor Walter Leal Filho has over 30 years experience on sustainable development research and in excess of 800 publications to his credit. Dr. Mihaela Sima is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, where she coordinates the Environment and GIS Department. Her main expertise is in environmental sustainability and quality with a special emphasis on evaluating the impact of human activities on the environment, climate change impacts on different societal fields and climate adaptation as well as climate change education. Dr. Amanda Lange Salvia is a Project Manager and Researcher the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is a Deputy Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals and of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Her background is in Environmental Engineering and her work focuses on the role of universities towards sustainability, the impacts of climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Marina Kovaleva is a Researcher and Project Manager at the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management (FTZ-NK)”, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is a Deputy Head of the Climate Change and Health Unit at the FTZ-NK. Her research work is focuses on climate change-gender interconnections.  Evangelos Manolas was born in Naxos, Greece, in 1961. He has received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Essex (1983), a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury (1985) and a Philosophy Doctorate from the University of Aberdeen (1989). He is Professor of Sociology and Environmental-Forest Education in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece.