Team

Finn Mempel

Alumni

I am a PhD researcher at ICTA-UAB. I hold a MSc in Ecohydrology (Kiel University / University of the Algarve) and a BSc in Environmental and Resource Management (Brandenburg University of Technology).

I am interested in interdisciplinary research with a critical lens. Currently, my research is focused on the historical transformations in the economic geography and social metabolism of soybean production and trade as well as the discursive elements in current deliberation processes on environmental governance of the global soybean complex.

Previously, I have worked on climate change impacts on global precipitation patterns and I have experience in remote sensing, GIS and statistical programming.

Research areas

Environmental governance and conservation

Projects

Operationalising Telecouplings for Solving Sustainability Challenges for Land Use (COUPLED)
January 2018 - January 2022

Publications

Re-MEDIAting distant impacts - how Western media make sense of deforestation in different Brazilian biomes Mempel F, Bidone, F (2022). Environmental Sociology.
Framing the frontier. Tracing issues related to soybean expansion in transnational public spheres Mempel F, Corbera E (2021). Global Environmental Change, 69: 102308.
The ambiguity of transparency in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector of Tanzania Pedersen AF, Nielsen, JØ , Mempel F, Bager, SL, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Corbera E (2021). The Extractive Industries and Society.
Environmental Justice in Telecoupling Research Corbera E, Rodríguez-Labajos B, Mempel F, Busck-Lumholt L.M. (2019). In: C. Friis, J. Ø. Nielsen, Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland.
Increased Occurrence of Record‐Wet and Record‐Dry Months Reflect Changes in Mean Rainfall Lehmann J, Mempel F, Coumou D (2018). Geophysical Research Letters , 45 (24): 13,468-13,476 .