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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': http://frama.link/EJ_book / About me: http://brendan.coolsaet.eu
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 π). Follow SΓ©bastien for more π€
π₯ βοΈ #ππ₯π’π¦πππππ’ππ’π πππ’π¨π§ ππ₯ππ«π: ππ§π π¨π’π§π ππππ«π’π§π in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, π«π· π§ββοΈ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability.
π 𧡠Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court β¬οΈ
I know, right? π€·π» 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
Fyi, Zimm and colleagues have also written a response to our piece. You can find it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks for the shout-out, Lisa! Excited to hear you've used this in class. Did the students like it?
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
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...
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
A photo of the award plaque and document
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 β¨). It's a collective award for our work on the role of Indigenous people and local communities in conservation πΏ #selfbrag
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.
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
Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ?
Mon billet politique ce matin sur @franceculture.fr :
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
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
Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels π§πͺ. 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...
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 π₯ masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social
Send it on the EJList! sympa-1.sipr.ucl.ac.be/listes/info/... (650 subscribers now)
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
L'absence de solutions collectives face au changement climatique nous force dans des engrenages individualisants, amplifiants Γ la fois les Γ©missions de gaz Γ effets de serre et les inΓ©galitΓ©s face au changement climatique. Interview de l'Γ©tΓ© βοΈ π₯΅ dans Moustique mag: www.moustique.be/notre-epoque...
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
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!
A screenshot of the event of the EOS seminar with An Ansoms on 22 May 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...
Dear #biodiversity research folks, we at CESAB have 2 new calls out for seed grants π§ββοΈπ΄ Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities π€! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social
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
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)
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...
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
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
π’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...
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
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....