Julien-François GERBER is Researcher in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology at the REEDS-OVSQ where he works on the FP7 EJOLT Project (www.ejolt.org). He is also Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study in New Delhi. He holds a Master of Science (in ecology and evolution) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, a Master of Advanced Studies in Development Studies from the University of Geneva, and Master and a Ph.D. in Ecological Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (supervised by Joan Martinez-Alier). From 2010 to 2012, J.-F. Gerber was Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, Harvard University. He has done fieldwork in Cameroon, Ecuador, and Indonesia. He is interested in socio-ecological economics, political ecology and agrarian and development studies. He has published several articles in journals such as Ecological Economics, Agrarian Change, and Global Environmental Change, and has co-edited two books in integrative heterodox and in ecological economics.