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Kaya Schwemmlein (1991) is a PhD Candidate in the Doctoral Programme “Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policy” at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa. She is currently developing a thesis titled “A Novel Dynamic Decision Support Framework for Sustainable Food Systems and Social-ecological Development under Climate Change”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Kaya Schwemmlein

Citation names

  • Schwemmlein, Kaya

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7119-0470-6FCB
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3911-4489

Email addresses

  • kaya.schwemmlein@ics.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Arab Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/01 - 2023/07/15
Ongoing
Alterações Climáticas e Políticas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017
Concluded
Serviço Social (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
"Serviço Social, Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Soberania Alimentar" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/09/01 - 2014/06/27
Concluded
Artes e Humanidades (Licenciatura)
Major in Estudos Asiáticos; Cultura e Comunicação
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/09/01 - Current Member of the ATS research group (Ambiente, Território e Sociedade/ Environment, Territory and Society) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current PhD candidate Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Schwemmlein, Kaya. "Understanding Human Rights through La Vía Campesina´s freamwork: Peasants’ Rights and the Future of Food. Food as a Commodity of Climate Adaptation or as Collective Right for Climate Mitigation?". In Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee, 207-227. Milan, Italy, 2018.
Conference paper
  1. Schwemmlein, Kaya; Horstink, Lanka; Encarnação, M.,. "DRP Odemira- Que futuro agro-alimentar perante os desafios socioecológicos?". Paper presented in VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, 2022.
  2. Schwemmlein, Kaya; Wallace, Ross. "What kind of energy transition- When local knowledge meets renewable energy megaprojects in rural Portugal". Paper presented in VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, 2022.
  3. Schwemmlein, Kaya. "A novel dynamic decision support framework for sustainable food systems and social-ecological development under climate change". Paper presented in World PhD Sustainability Students Summit, 2022.
  4. Schwemmlein, Kaya. "Regional Sustainable Farming: a transformation force? The case of Sikkim, India; Ndiob, Senegal; and Kauswagan, The Philippines". 2021.
Conference poster
  1. Schwemmlein, Kaya. "On futures of food: Assessing the adaptation and mitigation potential of diverse agricultural pathways- The small-scale farming vs agroindustry". Paper presented in Dresden Nexus Conference- Circular Economy in a Sustainable Society, 2020.
  2. Schwemmlein, Kaya. "Climate Change and Food Security -Changing agrarian structures". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional sobre Investigação em Alterações Climáticas, 2020.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Perdigão, Rui A. P.; Schwemmlein, Kaya. "Socio-Environmental Food Systems Under Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Perspective". In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals book series (ENUNSDG), edited by Walter Leal Filho; Anabela Marisa Azul; Luciana Brandli; Amanda Lange Salvia; Tony Wall, 2020. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71065-5_149-1.
  2. Schwemmlein, Kaya; Perdigão, Rui A. P.. "Triadic Nexus among Agriculture, Climate Change and Poverty". In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals book series (ENUNSDG), edited by Walter Leal Filho; Anabela Marisa Azul; Luciana Brandli; Amanda Lange Salvia; Pinar Gökcin Özuyar; Tony Wall. Springer, Cham, 2020. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-3-319-69625-6.
    Under revision
Journal article
  1. Lanka Horstink; Kaya Schwemmlein; Miguel F. Encarnação. "Food systems in depressed and contested agro-territories: Participatory Rural Appraisal in Odemira, Portugal". Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1046549.
    10.3389/fsufs.2022.1046549
Online resource
  1. Schwemmlein, Kaya; Horstink, Lanka; Encarnação, M.,. Participatory Rural Appraisal for the municipality of Odemira. 2022. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2022/06/08/participatory- 10 rural-appraisal-for-the-municipality-of-odemira-the-characterisation-of-a-rural- environment.
  2. Schwemmlein, Kaya. Perspetivas Rurais sobre o Futuro dos Sistemas Alimentares. 2020. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2020/06/10/perspetivas-rurais-sobre-o-futuro-dos-sistemas-alimentares/.
Report
  1. Horstink, L., ; Encarnação M.,. 2022. Relatório do projecto Diagnóstico Rural Participativo de Odemira. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/55261.
  2. Encarnação, M., ; Schwemmlein, Kaya. 2022. Caracterização social, económica, ambiental, institucional, geográfica e política de Odemira. https://gaia.org.pt/wpcontent/uploads/sites/8/2022/10/Caracterizaca o-territorio-Odemira-DRP-F.pdf.
  3. Rui A. P. Perdigão; Julia Hall; Kaya Schwemmlein. 2020. Polyadic Dynamic Nexus among Complex Socio-Environmental Systems: from Earth System Dynamics to Sustainable Development.. https://doi.org/10.46337/200819.
    10.46337/200819
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Schwemmlein, Kaya Maria. "Serviço social, desenvolvimento sustentável e soberania alimentar". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15386.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/01/11 Regional Sustainable Farming: a transformation force? The case of Sikkim, India; Ndiob, Senegal; and Kauswagan, The Philippines Fifth Energy and Society Conference
University of Trento (Trento, Italy)
2020/10/29 Oral Presentation. 4th GIATS CRITICAL DEBATE: "EUROPEAN ECOLOGICAL PACT: A NEW PARADIGM TO ACHIEVE CLIMATE NEUTRALITY?"
Research group ATS (Ambiente, Território, Sociedade/ Environment, Territory and Society)
2020/10/08 Panelist in ICS-ULisboa Open Days, organized by the research group ATS (Ambiente, Território, Sociedade/ Environment, Territory and Society )
esearch group ATS (Ambiente, Território, Sociedade/ Environment, Territory and Society)
2020/02 Climate Change and Food Security -Changing agrarian structures I Encontro Nacional sobre Investigação em Alterações Climáticas
FLUL, Lisboa

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2014/12/17 - 2014/12/17 Organization of an open debate on the Vegetarianism at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. (2014/12/17 - 2014/12/17)
Other (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/01/10 - 2013/01/10 Organization and participation in the celebration of World Hindi Day, in a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and the Embassy of India in Lisbon. Participation in the play "Stories of love of D. Pedro and D. Inês + Bollywood". (2013/01/10)
Festival (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/10/22 - Current Festival Coletivo Pela Transformação Sustentável- UMUNDU LX
2021/04/26 - Current PLURALIZANDO O ANTROPOCENO – "China torna-se verde: ambientalismo coercivo para um planeta problemático”
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Fundação de Serralves, Portugal

Sci-Tech Asia, Hong Kong SAR China

Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2021/04/21 - Current Webinar on Earth Democracy and Ecocide
Navdanya, India
2021/04/15 - Current Workshop “PLURALIZANDO O ANTROPOCENO – A Necessidade de Respeitar a Natureza e os seus Limites” PLURALIZANDO O ANTROPOCENO
Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal

Fundação de Serralves, Portugal
2021/04/13 - Current Webinar "Agricultura Urbana na cidade de Lisboa: dinâmicas relacionais, mobilização popular e novas iniciativas"
Grupo de investigação LIFE-Percursos de Vida, Desigualdade e Solidariedade (Gi LIFE) e o grupo de investigação ATS-Ambiente, Território e Sociedade (GiATS), Portugal
2021/04/08 - Current Webinar "Património Etnológico, Ambiente e as práticas turísticas: uma reflexão sobre transformações recentes no Sul em Portugal"
GI Entidades, Culturas e Vulnerabilidades e GI Ambiente, Território e População, Portugal
2020/10/15 - Current Participation in the European "Farm to Fork" Conference, organized by the European Commission.
Conference
Farm to Fork
European Commission, Belgium
2020/10/14 - Current Participation in workshop "What strategies for food justice in Portugal? Debate on the way to the UN Summit on Food Systems" , organized by the center for social studies, University of Coimbra.
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/09/23 - Current Participation in the digital forum "Can tree planting save our planet?", organized by the Global Landscapes Forum.
2020/09 - Current Speaker at the Fifth Energy and Society Conference. Postponed to 10-12 February 2021 .
Conference
Fifth Energy and Society Conference
Università degli Studi di Trento Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Italy
2020/06/16 - Current Participation in "Horizon 2020: European Green Deal Call". Organized by ANI, FCT and Perin.
2020/06/01 - Current Participation in "Microfinance and climate change adaptation: Insights from rural Rwanda". Organized by the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. Microfinance and climate change adaptation: Insights from rural Rwanda
Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
2020/05/27 - Current Participation in the Webinar "Global Perspectives on COVID-19 and Sustainability Transitions". An Initiative of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.
2020/04/23 - Current Participation in the Digital Forum "Food without Farmers". Organiyed by IFOAM and Global Landscapes Forum. Food without Farmers
2020/03/25 - Current Webinar organized by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network titled The Epidemiology and Economics of Coronavirus.
Other
2016/10/16 - Current Participation in the Workshop"Peasants Rights" organized by FIAN (Food First Information and Action Network), LVC (La Vía Campesina) e TNI (Transnational Institute) .
Workshop
(New) GMOs, TNCs and Peasant Rights for Food Sovereignty
Navdanya, India
2021/01/18 - 2021/01/22 Participation in the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2021
Conference
Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2021
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Germany
2020/06/03 - 2020/06/05 Participation with the title "On futures of food: Assessing the adaptation and mitigation potential of diverse agricultural pathways - The small-scale farming vs agroindustry" (poster) in Dresden Nexus Conference, under the theme “Circular Economy in a Sustainable Society”. Organized by United Nations University (UNU-FLORES); Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden); Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban; and Regional Development (IOER). Dresden Nexus Conference
2020/05/06 - 2020/05/08 Participation in the International virtual Conference "Towards low-carbon lifestyles". Organized by Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Towards low-carbon lifestyles
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2018/09/17 - 2018/09/21 Speaker at the Conference "Sustainability, Innovation, Participation, 10 years of Social Service" as panel member in the round table "Coherence in diversity" .
Conference
Sustentabilidade, Inovação, Participação, 10 anos do Serviço Social.
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/10/14 - 2016/10/16 Participation in People’s Assembly for the future of food and the future of the planet, Den Haag.
Conference
The People's Assembly
Navdanya, India
2016/10/15 - 2016/10/15 Participation in the workshop "Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity".
Workshop
Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity.
Navdanya, India
2012/01/10 - 2012/01/10 Organization and participation in the celebration of World Hindi Day, in a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and the Embassy of India in Lisbon.
Festival
Dia Mundial do Hindi
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/01/01 - Current Member of the Reading Group "Food Hub", ICS, University of Lisbon Reading Group