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David Schlosberg

@dschlosberg.bsky.social
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Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Helsinki. Environmental, climate, multispecies, and ecological justice; just adaptation and resilience.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Save 30% on #NewBook "Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social & @dschlosberg.bsky.social, which builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human to offer new ways of thinking toward planetary repair. buff.ly/EAmIgbM
Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 16/07/2026
#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - Revisiting Capabilities and Climate Justice: How Climate Turbulence Undermines Capabilities, and How to Design Just Adaptation in Response - cup.org/4vwJhWG - @dschlosberg.bsky.social #FirstView
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social, and @dschlosberg.bsky.social, explores how entities not traditionally recognized as “alive” play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Gjsa8v2
Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The final article from our global study of environmental and climate justice activists and academics is out. Read about this work on strategies and tactics for realising EJ, as well as the other articles from the project, here: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...
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New SEI-led research on strategies for realising environmental justice
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New article on tactics enviro/climate justice activists and academics see as enabling success: a focus on marginalised ontologies, disruptive politics, and methods to lift local knowledges. It's a rough time to post new pubs, but for something positive... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New article on tactics enviro/climate justice activists and academics see as enabling success: a focus on marginalised ontologies, disruptive politics, and methods to lift local knowledges. It's a rough time to post new pubs, but for something positive... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Sydney Environment Institute @seisydney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Dr Rebecca McNaught has delivered the prestigious Iain McCalman Lecture. Drawing on years of embedded research in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Dr McNaught challenges how Australia thinks about #disasters, #resilience and #recovery. 🔗 Now available, podcast or essay: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Sydney people: Our annual McCalman Lecture is almost here. Please register and come along to a fantastic talk on community based responses to disaster and resilience.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In my environmental justice seminar today, we discussed the extent to which research on climate justice is informed by knowledge on justice outside the climate field. This was inspired by @bcoolsaet.bsky.social et al's 2025 response to a piece by Zimm et al from 2024. 1/n
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 27/11/2025
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
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The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
The minister says quick approvals can happen while protecting the environment, but my experience tells me that haste brings unintended consequences
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Postdoc Fellowship: Multispecies Justice. Come work with @danycelermajer.bsky.social and me at @seisydney.bsky.social. We're looking at experiments in more-than-human inclusion in democratic decision making on climate and adaptation. More here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice
Full time, fixed term for 2 years Opportunity to conduct research on Multispecies justice Academic Level B Base Salary from $127,436 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of Social and...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Postdoc Fellowship: Multispecies Justice. Come work with @danycelermajer.bsky.social and me at @seisydney.bsky.social. We're looking at experiments in more-than-human inclusion in democratic decision making on climate and adaptation. More here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice
Full time, fixed term for 2 years Opportunity to conduct research on Multispecies justice Academic Level B Base Salary from $127,436 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of Social and...
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Michele L Barnes @michelelbarnes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out! Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er
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Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment
‘This brilliant volume comprehensively explains how and why social networks are so critical to help society address environmental challenges, including the climate crisis. It significantly extends pre...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Colleagues and I at the @seisydney.bsky.social have written up some reflections on the important ICJ decision on climate and state obligations and its implications for Australia... @proftimstephens.bsky.social @danycelermajer.bsky.social www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...
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SEI statement on the opinion of the International Court of Justice
Sydney Environment Institute members reflect on the implications of the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on climate change, noting the significance of the ruling for climate change po...
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Sydney Environment Institute @seisydney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Sydney Environment Institute's submission to the NSW Net Zero Commission underscores the urgent need for #systemic, #inclusive, and #locally grounded approaches to climate #adaptation. SEI identified 10 priority recommendations, drawing on the #multidisciplinary expertise of its membership.
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SEI Champions Climate Adaptation in Net Zero Commission Submission
The Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the New South Wales Net Zero Commission’s 2025 consultation process. Drawing on the expertise of a multidiscipli...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Postdoc Job: Just Transition. Come work with Amanda Tattersall and me at USYD, along with Jonathan Pickering and Madeline Taylor, on a 2-year project examining issues of justice and community benefit in transmission line regs, planning, siting. Info here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Justice and Electricity Transmission
Part time, 4 days per week, fixed term until June 2028 Research Project, 'Just transmission: advancing coherence in Australia’s electricity policy' Base Salary $127,436 - $151,328 (Level B) pro rata +...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/07/2025
HEY here's a new piece for @crikey.com.au! Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...
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Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial — it's never 'too late' for change
Veteran environmentalist David Suzuki believes the time has passed us to stop climate change. He's wrong.
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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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Sydney Environment Institute @seisydney.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The #invisible #labour of #disaster #recovery: Groundbreaking new #study from University Center for Rural Health documents the vital role of grassroots #women's #leadership in Northern River's recovery from catastrophic 2022 #floods.
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New research reveals hidden backbone of Northern Rivers flood recovery: women’s leadership - University Centre for Rural Health
A groundbreaking new study published in the journal Women's Health is bringing long-overdue recognition to the women who played a pivotal role in the Northern Rivers’ recovery from the catastrophic 20...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New article: Our team's reflections on the use of Q methodology in environmental justice research, and the ways we tried to embed EJ principles in the process - and interpretation of the data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Q methodology and environmental social science: adapting Q for complexity and inclusion in environmental justice research
This paper details an application of Q methodology for a global environmental justice project, a novel use in terms of the scale and complexity of our research agenda. We provide a rationale for ou...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Sydney people: Next Monday the Sydney Environment Institute kicks off a new panel series on Climate Justice. We'll talk about climate turbulence, heat inequity, the housing crisis, Indigenous leadership, community engagement, and more, with a great set of speakers. Register below.
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A powerful polemic by Christine Winter @winterchristine.bsky.social on the lies and violence of the latest colonial apologists. Focused on Aotearoa New Zealand, but clearly applicable, ehem, elsewhere. www.artforum.com/features/epi...
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White Lies
A meditation on the Māori experience of European settler-colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Of course. "Mr. Zeldin’s move effectively ends three decades of work at the E.P.A. to try to ease the pollution that burdens poor and minority communities, which are frequently located near highways, power plants, industrial plants, and other polluting facilities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
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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 · 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/...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
There's a lot of resistance work to be done at the moment, but there's always a need to imagine and implement alternatives. New work from the Multispecies Justice Collective at @seisydney.bsky.social, Institutionalising Multispecies Justice. Free open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
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Institutionalising Multispecies Justice
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Institutionalising Multispecies Justice
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Applications are open for the 2025 Climate Equity and Resilience Summer Institute! This free, 3-week program from @cig-uw.bsky.social is open to current & recent grad students and postdocs from any field w/ demonstrated interest in climate change, resilience, and issues of equity & social justice.
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Apply Now to the 2025 Climate Equity and Resilience Summer Institute | Climate Impacts Group
Applications are now open for the 2025 Climate Equity and Resilience Summer Institute!Read below to learn more about the program, sign up for an information session, and apply by March 17, 2025, with ...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Are you an experienced researcher with a focus on climate justice? The @ccj-ubc.bsky.social is hiring for a senior research manager. Join our team! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...
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Senior Research Manager, UBC Centre for Climate Justice
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level C Job Title Senior Research Manager, UBC Centre for Climate Justice Department Centre for Cli...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Great piece by James Bradley on the implications of climate turbulence: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’
The black summer bushfires heralded the beginning of a time when we realised the world as we knew it was gone. Five years later, we still space for grief, anger and political action
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Brendan Coolsaet @bcoolsaet.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research, in Nature Climate Change: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - w/ @julianagyeman.bsky.social, @pkashwan.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, Stacia Ryder, @dschlosberg.bsky.social & @farhanasultana.com #climatejustice
A screenshot of the article "Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research" on the website of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change
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Amy Turner @amyturner.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I know this is the piece we're all getting excited about today. Reader, I did not love it. Yes, there's been an irreversible, if slow, shift to a clean energy economy. And the coalition has broadened and should do so further. But... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
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Opinion | Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump
Climate purity is a recipe for failure.
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Destenie Nock, PhD @destenie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Started this starter pack with energy justice & climate justice folks. Let me know who I should add to it. go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5 (P.S. yes this is my way of finding my friends that migrated to bluer skies) @costasamaras.com @menrywy.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @sidersadapts.bsky.social
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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Public forum at Sydney Uni on Strategies for a Just and Democratic Climate Economy with @katemac.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social, Dan Sherrell (ACTU), Holly Creenaune (Sunrise Project) and @kurtiveson.bsky.social, presented by @seisydney.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/forum-strate...
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Forum: Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Sydney Environment Institute presents Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy The economy is an increasingly significant terrain of climate politics. The climate debate has moved on from ...
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Claire Mellier @clairemellier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is just the start of this starter pack! I need to include many more people, just let me know if you're one of them! go.bsky.app/LudfrFq
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Brilliant starter pack on adaptation to climate change by @meadekrosby.bsky.social :) go.bsky.app/3G5Eono
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here's a list of the political scientists working on climate I could find on here. Let me know if I missed you! go.bsky.app/C9L9xV
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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Starter pack of social scientists working on climate/environment with a focus on justice-driven policy, behavior, & systems change. *Inclusive of early career scholars.* Recommendations welcome @carlietrott.bsky.social [Collaboratively created; Additions ≠ endorsement.] go.bsky.app/6yrkE6C
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Sydney Environment Institute @seisydney.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
What is the legacy of the Biden Administration’s “once in a lifetime” investment in environmental justice? Join us for a conversation with Professor Kyle Whyte as he shares insights from his work with the Biden Administration, Tribal Nations and #EJ organisations. www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...
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Meeting the moment: lessons from the 'once in a lifetime' investment of the Biden Administration in Environmental Justice
Renowned scholar Kyle Whyte will share his experiences serving the Biden administration, environmental justice organisations, and Tribal nations.
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Sydney Environment Institute @seisydney.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
As the demand for renewable energy rises, so does the need for critical minerals like lithium and cobalt. Don't miss out on our Polycrisis in the Critical Minerals Supply Chain Plenary, part of the 2024 Earth System Governance Forum. Register now: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...
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The polycrisis in the critical minerals supply chain
Speakers from SEI will be featured in this plenary session exploring the complex implications of mining critical minerals for the global energy transition. As demand for minerals like lithium, cobalt,...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Deadline for submitting an application to be an editor is this week! The journal is recruiting one new Editor with expertise in environmental political theory, orthodox and heterodox perspectives, environmental justice, and qualitative methods. environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
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Call for editors – Environmental Politics Journal
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
An overview of some of our recent work on the relationship between climate impacts and democratic practices. www.abc.net.au/religion/aus...
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Australia’s disaster preparations require more local knowledge and better democratic engagement - ABC Religion & Ethics
As Australia faces increasing climate turbulence in the form of heatwaves, bushfires, storms and floods, the communities whose lives are affected find themselves in need of stronger democratic engagem...
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Sydney Environment Institute @seisydney.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Communities in disaster-prone areas are frustrated with consultation processes that lead to little change. Research conducted by SEI highlights the importance of local knowledge and community-led disaster responses. www.abc.net.au/religion/aus...
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Australia’s disaster preparations require more local knowledge and better democratic engagement - ABC Religion & Ethics
As Australia faces increasing climate turbulence in the form of heatwaves, bushfires, storms and floods, the communities whose lives are affected find themselves in need of stronger democratic engagem...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
New article! There's a growing consensus on the importance of critical environmental justice, but some crucial differences in how that is understood by academics and activists in the north and south. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Screenshot of front page, including title 'Critical environmental justice in contemporary scholarship and movements: consensus and plurality of the discourse', authors David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Rebecca Pearse, Hannah Della Bosca & Oli Moraes, and abstract.
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Kirsten Jackson @kirstenjackson.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Register now, for the Sydney Environment Institute's event - Building power within and beyond the university: ideas and actions for climate researchers! Online | Tuesday 24 October 9.00-10.00am (AEDT) @dschlosberg.bsky.social www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...
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Building power within and beyond the university: ideas and actions for climate researchers
Join us for a Grounded Conversations event featuring political theorist Alyssa Battistoni, a leading US scholar and voice in progressive climate debates.
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
In the midst of the growing dread of summer here in Australia, @SEI_Sydney's @danycelermajer lays out the need for collective community action. www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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As temperatures soar and wildfires burn abroad, summer dread is returning to my body | Danielle Celemajer
As the Australian summer approaches, my apprehension is both a daily shock and uncannily normalised – and I know I’m not the only one feeling it
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2023
Values are clearly shifting on human/more-than-human relations (thanks, Gen Z). Political and economic institutions need to follow. @SEI_Sydney ...
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David Schlosberg @dschlosberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
Absolutely brilliant project on community engagement, democracy, and transition from @SydneyPolicyLab @AmandaTatts: To get to net zero, policymakers need to listen to communities. Here's what they can learn from places like Geelong...
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