Martin Calisto Friant

Environmental governance and sustainability researcher and practitioner combining an interdisciplinary academic background with over six years of work experience throughout the world with a wide range of actors from the public, social, inter-governmental, academic and private sectors.

Research and work areas include: circular economy, post-development theories (such as buen vivir), degrowth, nature-based solutions, urban studies, deliberative democracy and environmental discourse and policy analysis.

Currently PhD candidate on the discourse, theory and practice of the Circular Economy at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University.