Implementing Sustainability and Internationalization in Higher Education

Dr. Bettina Schorr holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universität zu Köln, Germany. She is a lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the program director of trAndeS – Advanced Studies on Inequalities and Sustainable Development. Her work focuses on institution-building in extractive economies, environmental policies and socio-environmental conflicts in the Andean region. She is the author of various research articles and books, including “Andean States and the Resource Curse: Institution Building in Extractive Economies” (2021, with G. Damonte) and “Environmental vs. Economic Concerns in Bolivia: Does Support for Extractivism Affect Environmental Concern? (2024, with C. Marull).Prof. Dr. Bettina Schorr holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universität zu Köln, Germany. She is a lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the program director of trAndeS – Advanced Studies on Inequalities and Sustainable Development. Her work focuses on institution-building in extractive economies, environmental policies and socio-environmental conflicts in the Andean region. She is the author of various research articles and books, including “Andean States and the Resource Curse: Institution Building in Extractive Economies” (2021, with G. Damonte) and “Environmental vs. Economic Concerns in Bolivia: Does Support for Extractivism Affect Environmental Concern? (2024, with C. Marull).Dr. Christian Brandt is Project Coordinator at the Institute of Farm Management, University of Hohenheim. He co-leads the German-Ethiopian CLIFOOD research and training programme, which examines how climate change shapes food security. Trained as a biologist and holding a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from Hohenheim, he focused on compound-specific stable-isotope analysis to quantify soil erosion and has also conducted research on land-use change and nutrient cycling. His work with FAO/IAEA projects and partners in Vietnam and Ethiopia links laboratory innovation with on-farm decision support, and appears in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Geoderma, and Agriculture. In this volume he co-edits and co-authors the chapter detailing CLIFOOD’s lessons for internationally networked graduate education.

• Preface.- Introduction.- Climate Change Effects on Food Security-CLIFOOD: Lessons from the CLIFOOD SDG Graduate School.