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Brendan Coolsaet

@bcoolsaet.bsky.social
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All things environmental justice / Research at FNRS / Teaching at UCLouvain & Sciences Po Paris / Director EOS research center / Book: 'Environmental Justice: Key Issues': shorturl.at/Nl3aU (⭐️2nd ed. out soon⭐️) / brendan.coolsaet.eu

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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Steve breaks the news! After the success of the 1st edition, the fully updated 2nd edition of my book *Environmental Justice: Key Issues* will be out soon! 32 chapters laying out the foundations of environmental justice studies. Now in preorder (and at discount rate)!
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 29/09/2026
I'm checking proofs of 2 book chapters today. Looking forward to both collections: 2nd ed of Environmental Justice: Key Issues (edited by @bcoolsaet.bsky.social) & Zoopolitical Thought (edited by @serrinrp.bsky.social & André Krebber). First one can be pre-ordered: www.routledge.com/Environmenta...
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Environmental Justice: Key Issues
Revised and fully updated, Environmental Justice: Key Issues offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarsh...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
But major challenges: too heterogeneous or lack of data, fragmented statistics, no common analytical frameworks -> hinders analytical progress, translation into policy and transformative partnerships with social movements (even when "climate justice" & "environmental racism" increasingly voiced)
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Heavy focus now on policy exposure, ie. distributional consequences of policy and planning, in part a result of activism and claim-making in recent years in the EU (eg. yellow vests); on spatial analysis, some thinking too on how to move from spatial coincidence and proximity to spatial disconnect
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
EJ analysis is now being applied to a wide array of environmental issues (air quality, urban heat, flood risk, storms, coastal erosion, restoration, urban greening, transport, energy etc) and new communities, complexifying (historically dominant) class-based readings and exploring intersections.
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The 1st observation is that lots is happening research-wise, EJ is fast becoming a legitimate framework to study the intertwining of environment & social difference + different scholarly EJ communities have emerged in the last decade or so (EJOLT in Spain, EJJE in France, EnJust in Germany, ...)
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
in the editorial entitled "European spatialities of environmental justice", we reflect on what these articles, and the overall increase of EJ work being produced out of Europe, contribute to the field and highlight some of the challenges in doing so journals.openedition.org/belgeo/94655
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Editorial: European spatialities of environmental justice
This special issue seeks to contribute to the documentation of the spatial distribution of environmental injustices in Europe and explore its spatiality. We thank the contributing authors for their...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our special issue, "Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions", is now finalized and published in the journal Belgeo! It includes 15 articles, in EN or FR, all available in open access: journals.openedition.org/belgeo/81567.... co-edited with Sophie Moreau, Sophie Vanwambeke & Edwin Zaccaï
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'll be in Paris tomorrow for the summer school of the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. I'll talk about how environmental justice went from a "research frontier to a policy solution" and what we can learn from that blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/sdds/summer-...
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Summer School in Science and Policy | Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
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JUST Centre @justcentre.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📢 Do you want to make the theoretical and empirical case for meaningful social inclusion and diverse leadership in UK climate policy and action? We’re delighted to announce a fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentship in the JUST Centre, based at @manchester.ac.uk 👉 Apply now: bit.ly/42gKLIH
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Très heureux d'avoir pu apporter mon petit grain de sel au documentaire Res Nullius de Thomas Jean, qui illustre avec brio les racines communes des dépossessions sociales et environnementales à l'oeuvre à Bruxelles 🇧🇪 (actuellement en salle au cinéma Aventure) www.lesuricate.org/res-nullius-...
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Res Nullius : biodiversité, aménagement du territoire et justice sociale
Un documentaire fort de sa cohérence, qui explique, réjouit et émeut.
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The @frbiodiv.bsky.social's CESAB has opened its 2026 call for synthesis research on biodiversity. 3y projects, funds 1 postdoc + 5 week long team meetings in Montpellier 🇫🇷. All disciplines eligible. Feel free to DM/email for questions. www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/app...
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[Call for proposals FRB-CESAB 2026] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Through its Center for Biodiversity Synthesis and Analysis (CESAB), the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research opens its 2026 call for research proposals, to fund two innovative projects relating...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Amazingly thorough live feed by @duycks.bsky.social on the landmark hearing against French fossil fuel major #Total starting today (including a double reference to French hiphop artist Orelsan 😏). Follow Sébastien for more 🤓
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🔥 ⚖️ #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, 🇫🇷 🧑‍⚖️ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability. 📝 🧵 Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court ⬇️
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I know, right? 🤷🏻 peer-reviewing also stressed that + how they are doubling down on the original message. Apparently one of the reasons why the NCC editors decided to publish the correspondence
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fyi, Zimm and colleagues have also written a response to our piece. You can find it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Client Challenge
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thanks for the shout-out, Lisa! Excited to hear you've used this in class. Did the students like it?
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I'll be at the Blue & Green Justice event in Paris today hosted by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & @cnrs.fr presenting the results of the Just Conservation project (2019-23) in which we reviewed 50 years of data on the role of Indigenous people for conservation: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/evenement...
a poster of the Blue and Green Justice event. The background shows a satellite photo of a tropical shoreline, where the ocean meets the forest, divided by a beach
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Much of that effort was led by the tireless @neildawson.bsky.social and funded by @frbiodiv.bsky.social / Cesab. Publications available in open access from my website brendan.coolsaet.eu
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Brendan Coolsaet – Research Professor
Research Professor – FNRS / UCLouvain
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Xmas came early this year! Grateful to #IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy for their Research and Knowledge Award (including backlit award plaque ✨). It's a collective award for our work on the role of Indigenous people and local communities in conservation 🌿 #selfbrag
A photo of the award plaque and document
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 01/12/2025
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
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The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My people have a call for papers up for #POLLEN2026 on Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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Jean Leymarie @jeanleymarie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ? Mon billet politique ce matin sur @franceculture.fr :
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Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ?
Fin du monde ou fin du mois ? Une enquête du Pacte civique démonte quelques clichés : les plus précaires se préoccupent de l'environnement. Mais demandent aux politiques de les écouter.
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
We also went to great lengths to get this disseminated in the press and got about 40 media outlets to reference it, including big ones like Politico and Le Monde. The timing helped too, as it was published days before the 2021 World Conservation Congress in Marseille
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It's always a bit of a mystery why some papers get picked up more than others. I think this one resonated bc it addresses something that practitioners had been looking at for a while ("why is it that conservation works betters when IPLCs lead it?") but long only had circumstantial evidence for
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels 🇧🇪. The Constitutional Court suspends the postponement of the city's Low Emission Zone, stressing the disproportionate exposure of low-income communities and vulnerable groups www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/174...
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Constitutional Court suspends postponement of Brussels' Low Emission Zone
"This decision is a reminder that the LEZ is an essential tool for reducing pollution, protecting the most vulnerable, and ensuring healthier air for everyone."
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Very proud to see our 2021 paper in Ecology & Society on the role of Indigenous people in conservation is most cited paper of the journal for 2020-24 🔥 masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Send it on the EJList! sympa-1.sipr.ucl.ac.be/listes/info/... (650 subscribers now)
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ejlist - The environmental justice studies mailing list - info
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
L'absence de solutions collectives face au changement climatique nous force dans des engrenages individualisants, amplifiants à la fois les émissions de gaz à effets de serre et les inégalités face au changement climatique. Interview de l'été ☀️ 🥵 dans Moustique mag: www.moustique.be/notre-epoque...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Building on the keynotes, the 2nd session is a roundtable on 'Human Ecology meets Environmental Justice'. We'll be joined by Matthieu Berger (UCLouvain) and Vasna Ramasar (Lund University) to continue and deepen the discussion in a more intimate setting! Join us: www.societyforhumanecology.org
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I'll be chairing 2 important sessions at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) at UMons this week. This first one is a double keynote with @winterchristine.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social! We'll talk about (in)justice, ecology, cities and... sand!
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The next EOS seminar is tomorrow with our in-house leading lady @anansoms.bsky.social presenting her latest book, Spaces for Stories (UCLouvain Press). Join us at 13:30 CEST, on site in LLN or online on Teams: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...
A screenshot of the event of the EOS seminar with An Ansoms on 22 May 2025
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Dear #biodiversity research folks, we at CESAB have 2 new calls out for seed grants 🧔‍♂️🌴 Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities 🤓! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social
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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We argue that European farmers have lots to learn from the long histories of Indigenous struggle for environmental and food justice in Latin America, including political autonomy, food sovereignty, cultural self-recognition, counter-hegemonic knowledge production models and collective stewardship
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In other words, the farming crisis is European coloniality coming home. Today's agri-food system is perhaps the most visible expression of plantations' legacies at the heart of the West (extreme inequalities, modern-day slavery, extractive land usage, globalized trade, racialized violence)
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A system where land, labor, & capital only profit some, where people are denigrated as inferior, based on codification of difference and on the marginalisation of their knowledge and where landscapes & crops are modeled on sameness, where else have we seen this? Right, in the global South...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Farmers in Europe today are faced with falling income, elite capture, volatile markets, reduced public support, rupture with society, increasing suicide rates, eroding rural identity & loss of sovereignty, to name a few, while being perceived as responsible for the demise of the rural countryside
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In a nutshell, we argue that using decolonial theoy can help make sense of today's farming crisis in Europe. It is deeply rooted in the concentration of power and knowledge brought about by agricultural modernization and in its social-environmental consequences
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
📢new paper alert, check it out in the Journal of Rural Studies! Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Led by Lou Lecuyer (@inrae-france.bsky.social): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktvo2eyKF...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This Thursday ! Join us at 13:30 CET in Louvain-la-Neuve (LECL93) or on MS Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... The session will be bilingual FR/EN @pyneron.bsky.social
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New: Compounding Barriers to Environmental Justice. It has long been argued (and clearly demonstrated) that institutionalised racism is a key barrier to EJ. We illustrate 4 distinct, interrelated ways this is manifest: general, political, legal, and cultural. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Compounding barriers to environmental justice
This paper examines how environmental justice (EJ) activists and scholars experience and think about the barriers to beneficial change. It reports findings from an international study that used Q m...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
To join online: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
C'est demain! Rejoignez nous à 13h30 au Collège Leclercq (LECL93) à Louvain-la-Neuve ou sur Teams via teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
with @julianagyeman.bsky.social (Tufts University), @pkashwan.bsky.social (Brandeis University), @danielle-rivera.bsky.social (UC Berkeley), Stacia Ryder (Utah State University), @dschlosberg.bsky.social (University of Sydney), @farhanasultana.com (Syracuse University)
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For the last 4 decades, environmental & climate justice has produced a wealth of frameworks, principles & concepts that are clear and consistent, emerging from both social and scholarly movements. Failing to engage with this replicates forms and practices of injustice and undermines climate policy.
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The piece is a reaction to an article published earlier this year by Caroline Zimm and colleagues in the same journal: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We argue that, paradoxically, papers like this one tend to contribute to the very problem they want to address.
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Justice considerations in climate research - Nature Climate Change
Justice issues are integral to a variety of climate science and policy processes. This Perspective provides a framework, based on philosophical theory, to explain key justice concepts and how they can...
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Probably not as attractive as a paper on how to best cook egg yolk 🐣, but our Correspondence piece on climate justice is out in the February issue of Nature Climate Change @natureportfolio.nature.com trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...
A screenshot of the webpage of the current issue of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Le jeudi 20/2, @dr-pierre-andre.bsky.social et Axel Gosseries (FNRS) présentent leur livre "La justice climatique" (Que Sais-je?, 2024) à EOS: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts.... Rejoignez-nous (sur place/Teams) ! (une collab avec le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Crise Ecologique)
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