Professor David Schlosberg
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
Brown House, 97 Talbot Ave., Medford Campus
Most authors who have addressed climate justice focus on conceptions of equity, and in particular inequity between existing human populations or between existing and future generations of human beings. Professor Schlosberg argues that the issue of climate change necessitates a much more broad understanding of climate justice. His thesis is that the capabilities approach, developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum and expanded in key ways, can be applied to a conception of climate justice. This capabilities-based conception of climate justice will be compared to the demands of both the environmental justice and climate justice movements.
David Schlosberg, Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and Director of the Environmental Studies Program, at Northern Arizona University, is known nationally and internationally for his work in environmental political theory, environmental justice, and environmental movements. Schlosberg’s most recent book is Environmentalism in the United States, co-edited with Elizabeth Bomberg. He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society.