Esin Düzel

My research examines the social dimensions of sustainability transitions, with a focus on gender, social justice, and inclusive forest and natural resource governance. Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist, I use qualitative, participatory, and multispecies ethnographic methods to study how environmental change and sustainability policies are enacted, contested, and reshaped in everyday practice. A core theme of my work is just and inclusive green transition, particularly how vulnerable or marginalized groups engage with climate, biodiversity, and forest-related policies. Through ethnography, interviews, focus groups, and community-based research, I analyze gendered knowledge, care practices, human–environment relations, and forms of resistance as integral to social resilience and adaptive capacity. My previous research includes forest fire and disaster response studies in the Mediterranean, based on fieldwork with villagers, forest engineers, firefighters, and civil society actors in Turkey. This work explores how local ecological knowledge, institutional practices, and multispecies relations intersect in forest fire preparedness, response, and recovery, offering insights for socially grounded and inclusive forest governance. Methodologically, I specialize in co-creational and multi-stakeholder research, designing participatory processes that connect local communities, public authorities, and researchers, and support the translation of qualitative insights into policy-relevant knowledge.