#105 Torsten Krause – It's not about saving the planet, it's about saving ourselves
Torsten Krause is a senior lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. He holds a Bachelor (BSc) in International Business Administration from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and the Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Montpellier, France; and a Masters degree (MSc) in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University. From 2009 to 2013 he conducted his PhD research in the Ecuadorian Amazon studying the social-ecological and economic effects of a national conservation incentive program. Since then he has continued to work with topics around environmental activism, forest governance, deforestation, biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development in Ecuador, Colombia, Nigeria and South Africa. We met at Lund university the 17th of April to talk about activism, how biodiversity loss is linked to the climate crises and many other topics. Please enjoy!