Postdoctoral Researcher
Isabel Díaz Reviriego is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded WEAVE project Plural Values of Urban Foragingscapes in Edible Cities at IRI THESys, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her current research examines how urban foraging practices produce plural values and reconfigure relationships between people, plants, food, and urban environments, with a focus on environmental and epistemic justice. Drawing on sustainability science, feminist political ecology, and biocultural diversity she combines inter- and transdisciplinary research, art-based methods, and knowledge co-production with diverse societal actors.
She holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and degrees in Ecology and Biology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research has spanned socio-ecological transformations, Indigenous and local knowledge, biocultural diversity, environmental governance, gender and justice, with a particular focus on long-term, place-based research in Latin America, specially Bolivia. Before joining IRI THESys, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). She has also contributed to international science–policy processes, including IPBES, and worked as a gender consultant supporting the integration of intersectional perspectives into research and policy initiatives.
Isabel is a member of the Careoperative and a works with Fractal, two academic collectives that foster collaborative and critical approaches to knowledge production.
Research Interests
- Biocultural diversity and more-than-human relations
- Environmental and epistemic justice
- Feminist political ecology
- Justice-oriented sustainability transformations
- Science-policy and environmental governance
- Care, reflexivity and academic practice
Selected Publications
Selected peer-review publications
Tengö, M., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Malmer, P., Alangui, W.V., Pascua, P., Trakansuphakon, P., & Hill, R. 2026. Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70343
Díaz‐Reviriego, I., Torralba, M., Vizuete, B., Ortiz‐Przychodzka, S., Pearson, J., Heindorf,C., … & Oteros‐Rozas, E. 2024. Disentangling gender and social difference for just and transformative biocultural approaches. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10673
Díaz-Reviriego. I., E. Turnhout, S. Beck. 2019. Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Nature Sustainability 2(6):457-464. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0290-6
Care, O., Bernstein, M., Chapman, M., Díaz Reviriego, I., Dressler,G., Felipe-Lucia, MR., Friis, C., Graham S., Haenke, H., Haider LJ., Hernández-Morcillo, M., Hoffmann, H., Kernecker, M., Nicol, P., Piñeiro, C., Pitt H., Schill, C., Seufert ,V., Shu, K., Valencia, V., Zaehringer, JG.. 2021. Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations. Sustainability Science 16: 703–708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
Selected science-policy and practice outputs
Rice, J., Ticktin, T., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Furukawa, T., Gandiwa, E., Lavadinović, V.,Margayan, L., Pascua, P., Sathyapalan, J. Akachuku, C. and Hallosserie, A. (2022). Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the sustainable use of wild species. In: Thematic Assessment Report on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Fromentin, J.M., Emery, M.R., Donaldson, J., Danner, M.C., Hallosserie, A., and Kieling, D. (eds.). IPBES Secretariat, Bonn, Germany.
Díaz-Reviriego, I. & Iniesta Arandia, I. (2026). Toward a gender-responsive CREAF project: A toolkit for project activities. Fractal Collective, prepared for the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS), Climate Resilient East Atlantic Flyway (CREAF).
Social Media
Find Isabel on ResearchGate
Multimedia
Short documentary: My Body, My Territory: Chiquitano Indigenous Women’s Struggles for Their Casa Grande (Ancestral Territory)
Co-produced with Revista Nómadas (Bolivia) through transdisciplinary research with Chiquitano Indigenous women, exploring Indigenous women’s territorial struggles and socio-environmental justice in the Bolivian Chiquitania.
Bodies-Territories of Chiquitania (In Spanish)
Poetry book co-created with Chiquitano Indigenous women leaders in Bolivia, exploring Indigenous women’s territorial struggles through participatory and arts-based research.
Interviews with Chiquitano Indigenous women firefighters during the 2024 wildfires in Bolivia (Revista Nómadas, Bolivia) (In Spanish)
