dr. C.Y. Aoki Inoue (Cristina)

I do research about global environmental governance/politics and socioenvironmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon since 2001. My current work looks at the interplay of networks of actors, power relations, and governance institutions through a planetary justice perspective. I focus on global underlying drivers of socio-environmental injustices and how local peoples, the forest, rivers, soils, biodiversity are affected by global processes. I am interested in just transformative change/governance, or a safe and just planet for humans and more-than-humans. How to move from predatory development modes to locally based alternatives, or keeping the forest, biodiversity and rivers, whilst respecting local ways of knowing and being, fostering wellbeing through what the forest and rivers offer? Besides, I have also been doing research on the relations between environmental issues and North-South development assistance and South-South cooperation.
At Radboud University, I am an Associate Professor in the Environmental Governance and Politics chair group and I hope to contribute by working on the framework of transformative governance as a lens to do research in the Amazon.
I am part of the Centre for Sustainability Challenges team at RU and I strongly believe that we, as scholars, should try to have wider societal impacts through transdisciplinary and university outreach work.
I am a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance (ESG) network, of the Earth Commission’s Working Group on Transformations and also a voluntary senior researcher of the Center for Global Studies, University of Brasília.
In relation to teaching/education, I have tried to adopt active and contemplative learning approaches. I served as the president and program chair of the Active Learning in International Affairs Section (ALIAS), International Studies Association and have been coordinating the

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