Research carried out by this cluster investigates everyday life and resistance by producers and consumers, national politics and economy, geopolitics, legal regimes and governance frameworks, security, and international affairs in the context of global socio-environmental crises. We adopt an explicitly cross-regional perspective, emphasizing a comparative approach (across spatial, temporal, and institutional contexts) and connectivities across regional and national differences. In doing so, the cluster focuses primarily on natural resource extraction and infrastructure development, food and energy production, nature conservation, and health/wellbeing. Special attention is given to nature-society relations shaped by cross-regional (North-South, South-South), and cross-sectoral (state-civil society) interactions, and tensions between hegemonic models by dominant actors and post-development perspectives put forward by other societal groups.