Douwe is a Senior Research Assistant at the EMIC Division at UNU-EHS and a PhD Candidate in Loss and Damage at the University of Bonn. He works on topics as Non-Economic Loss and Damage, Social Inequality, Social and Climate Justice, Capabilities and Intersectionality, predominantly focusing on Bangladesh and Suriname.
Loss and damage related to climate change is his main focus of research. Douwe is particularly interested in how we can address local-level loss and damage whilst simultaneously ensuring social justice. In answering this question, he works with intersectionality theory and focuses on Suriname. In the past, his research focused on so-called ‘non-economic’ loss and damage, local values and the framing of the often intangible and subjective impacts of climate change, with Bangladesh as a case study.