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Mirja Schoderer is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) department at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a faculty member of the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute. Her research focuses on contestations over natural resources, emphasizing water, mining, and biodiversity protection. She examines how socio-natural dynamics shape distributive justice through biophysical, discursive, and institutional interactions. Methodologically, she employs Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), visual ethnography, and action research.
Education: PhD in Water and Mining Conflicts (VU Amsterdam, 2024); MSc Environment and Resource Management (VU Amsterdam, 2017); MA Comparative Literature (Freie Universität Berlin, 2017); BA German Literature (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 2013).
Research Interests: Environmental justice, water conflicts, extraction politics, nature conservation, and critical social theory. Current projects include co-coordinating the Bio-Just project on biodiversity protection’s environmental justice dimensions and leading a Colombia case study. Previously, she researched water governance at IDOS (Germany).
Teaching: Leads courses on Environmental Policy and Sustainability Challenges at undergraduate and graduate levels. Supervises MSc theses. Active in the EnJust Network and contributes to interdisciplinary marine carbon research initiatives.
Key Projects: Bio-Just (2023–2026), investigating ecosystem services and environmental justice linkages. Collaborations span Germany, Brazil, Colombia, and Mongolia.
