Episode 14 features David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney.
David is known internationally for his work on environmental, climate, ecological, and multispecies justice, and just approaches to climate adaptation/resilience, as well as issues of environmental action and sustainability in everyday life. Professor Schlosberg’s more applied work includes bringing issues of environmental justice, community experiences, and local knowledges to resilience and adaptation policy at multiple levels.
This talk addresses the increase in climate change turbulence, and how such disruptions are both an injustice and a motivator for a range of democratic responses. The reality of climate turbulence has created converging, overlapping, intersecting crises, increasingly understood as the polycrisis. Beyond such complexity, turbulence is disruptive and unjust in numerous ways – it is about the constant disruption and displacement of connections to place, to immersive and entangled environments – the experience of being unsettled. In response, many communities have developed forms of democratic innovation and experimentation fit to address such turbulence. I examine examples of democratic engagement and practice developed in response to environmental crises, ecological alienation, and climate disasters – from climate assemblies to multispecies transitions.
The Saving the World Webinar Series is presented by the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, the series discusses the intersections between climate change, inequity, and human health. The focus is on actions that enable transformative change away from the harmful consumptogenic system to systems that promote good health, social equity and environmental wellbeing.
Event Speakers
Professor David Schlosberg
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. He is known internationally for his work on environmental, climate, ecological, and multispecies justice, and just approaches to climate adaptation/resilience.
Sharon Friel
Prof Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Prof of Health Equity and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, the School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and co-Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity.
Nicholas Frank
Dr Nicholas Frank is a Laureate Research Fellow with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse in the School of Regulation and Global Governance. Prior to this, he was an Associate Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Nicholas specializes in the political economy of trade and investment governance.