Julia Prakofjewa is a historian who has extensive experience working in cross-border regions. Her research focuses on the dynamics of local ecological knowledge. She is continually expanding her expertise in digital environmental communication and the social and cultural aspects of human-nature relationships. Matteo Sartori is a historian, his research focuses on the evolution of ecological knowledge entangling various disciplines like historical ethnobotany, environmental history of knowledge and ignorance, and perspectives as, among others, migration, decoloniality and global history.