Esther Turnhout
In this time of social ecological polycrisis, supporting transformative change for justice and biodiversity is urgent. In her work, Esther Turnhout examines science-policy society relations with the aim of improving the contributions of science and research to such transformations.
Esther Turnhout is an interdisciplinary social scientist with expertise in crosscutting scholarly fields including political ecology, science and technology studies, and transdisciplinary approaches. Her research and teaching concern topics such as the politics of biodiversity knowledge; science-policy interfaces; the coloniality of environmental research and biodiversity conservation; and inclusion, justice, and pluralism in knowledge making practices. She is the first author of Environmental Expertise: Connecting Science, Policy and Society (Turnhout et al. 2019). Esther has played several active roles in the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), including as an author of the 2019 Global Assessment and the 2024 Transformative Change Assessment.
References
Turnhout et al. 2019
Turnhout, Esther, et al. Environmental Expertise: Connecting Science, Policy and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.