Biodiversity - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II / The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America (PDF)

Olaf Kaltmeier is a professor of Iberoamerican history at Universität Bielefeld. Since its foundation in 2008, he has been the director of CALAS - Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is founding director and member of the Executive Board for the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld and director of the collaborative research project »Turning Land into Capital«.
Antoine Acker is an environmental historian and professor at Université de Genève, with a particular interest in international connections and the place of Latin America in the history of the Anthropocene. He directs the AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century project, and co-directs Lost Cities, a collaborative project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
León Enrique Ávila Romero is a full-time professor-researcher in Sustainable Development at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH). He is the leader of the consolidated academic body »Heritage, territory, and development in the southern border of Mexico«, a member of the SNI-CONACyT level I, and an honorary member of the SEI Cocytech.
Regina Horta Duarte has been a full professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil since 1988, and is currently a permanent professor of its Graduate Program in History. Her research focuses on the Brazilian Republic, history and nature, the history of biology, and animal history. She coordinates the Center of Animal History (CEA-UFMG).