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Dr. Helen Kopnina

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#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl

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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

See also www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.10.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

Great reflection, only concern is 'resilience over fragility' as a solution as serves anthropocentric interests (eg climate adaptation) but disregard the fragility of nature, which can be less resilient to the land conversion for agriculture, see also www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.10.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

Positive development if alternative protein can aid natural systems, which can be less resilient to the onslaught of activity like land conversion for agriculture, see also www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.10.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 The primatologist was a

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

01.10.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses | Australian Journal of Environmental Education | Cambridge Core From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses - Volume 40 Issue 3

See also an article on degrowth in education: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

01.10.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses | Australian Journal of Environmental Education | Cambridge Core From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education: Ecopedagogy and Degrowth in Business Studies Courses - Volume 40 Issue 3

Perhaps of interest: some reflections on degrowth in education: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

01.10.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

Biodiversity is ESG’s blind spot. 🌱 TNFD offers a path, but only robust metricsβ€”extinction risk, habitat recovery, species protectionβ€”can turn disclosure into real ecological action. πŸŒπŸ¦‹ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

22.09.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals Building on the Millennium Development Goals, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) were established. Despite the willingness of many ed...

Perhaps we can go beyond education fucused on sustaining industrial & economic development, which is unsustainable? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Ways forward: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... or link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... or bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

22.09.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals Building on the Millennium Development Goals, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) were established. Despite the willingness of many ed...

Perhaps we can go beyond eductaion sustaining industrial & economic development, which is unsustainable? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Ways forward: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... or link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... or bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

22.09.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A #OneHealth approach committed to the health of our planet, non-human animals and human animals is powerful.

A #OneHealth approach that is only concerned with non-human animal "health" so we human animals can continue to safely exploit them, has made a terrible error.

@sentientism.bsky.social

22.09.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solving climate change requires changing our food systems Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threatβ€”irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to

We often blame β€œinequality” alone for hunger, but let’s not ignore scale: 8 billion apex predators, shape ecosystems whether rich or poor, vegans less so in terms of land use. Food security isn’t just yields but also numbers & diet academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

22.09.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

See also www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Scientists issue warning after discovering concerning phenomenon in trees: 'Simply not keeping up' A new report is revealing troubling news about the Amazon forests and their ability to adapt to our changing climate.

Trees cannot keep up with #climatechange 🌍

www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/ama...

18.09.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Does waste equal food? | 3 | Examining the feasibility of circular eco This chapter discusses closed-loop systems Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) and circular economy, exposing greenwashing practices but also underlining hopeful strategies

Careful not to perpetuate the myth of absolute decoupling, there is also a crucial difference between organic (bio) and technical cycles, for example, see this work on greenwashing in the food industry that pretends to be circular www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

18.09.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stories from the Field: an interview with May and Yasmine (Global Rewilding Alliance) We talk with May Scott and Yasmine Grignard from the Global Rewilding Alliance.

🌍 "Rewilding is as much about people as it is about nature and wildlife." πŸ«‚

#RewildingSuccesses has published its second interview!
#StoriesFromTheField #Rewilding #RewildingHope

rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2025/08/26/s...

@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@scotrewilding.bsky.social
@rewilding.org

26.08.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preservation - An Ecocentric Story
YouTube video by The Ecological Citizen Preservation - An Ecocentric Story

πŸ—£οΈ NEW TO THE ECOLOGICAL CITIZEN YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Ecocentric Stories

πŸ§ͺ Preservation by Joe Gray πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬
youtube.com/watch?v=Rfoc...

#EcologicalLiterature #SpeculativeFiction #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction

17.09.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solving climate change requires changing our food systems Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threatβ€”irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to

Indeed, as land conversion for agriculture is the largest cause of biodiversity loss, and methane contributes to global warming, radical changes in food production are needed. See new article, Solving climate change requires changing our food systems academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

17.09.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

Perhaps next step could be ecocentric biodiversity finance considering the scale of global ecosystem decline www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

16.09.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œEnjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realise they were the big things”
- Kurt Vonnegut

15.09.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Bridging ESG and the Circular Economy: Advancing corporate sustainability through the updated R-Hierarchy and Circularity Scoring Model | Visions for Sustainability

See a reflection on how the R hierarcy of #circulareconomy can be supplemented by the R of #Regeneration and #Rewilding: ojs.unito.it/index.php/vi...

15.09.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…

see related paper: The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.09.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services on JSTOR HELEN KOPNINA ΒΉΒ², Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services, Environmental Conservation, Vol. 44, No. 1, Thematic section. Forest Ecosystem Services (MARCH 2017), pp. 24-33

Commodification of forests, the good and the bad www.jstor.org/stable/26320...

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By fostering interdisciplinary research, the special issue aims to offer ways for managers to upskill their sustainability leadership (SL). It will do this by exploring how sustainability leadership capacity can be developed by managers through addressing the three interrelated knowledge gaps

09.09.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Developing Management Capability in Sustainability Leadership This Special Issue addresses the research question: How can the development of sustainability leadership among managers create a virtuous cycle for a viable future? We explore how effective leadership...

Call for Papers for the Special Issue in Journal of Management Development: Developing Management Capability in Sustainability Leadership www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

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Some people have also left the party because of some things that have been recently said

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We are in awe 🀯 Over 100,000 citizens have already sent a message to the European Commission, sharing why they oppose the weakening of EU nature laws.

If you care about nature & support strong EU environmental laws, now is the moment to speak up!

Send your message! πŸ‘‰ www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

05.09.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books. ScienceDirect is the world's leading source for scientific, technical, and medical research. Explore journals, books and articles.

Reaching the #KMGBF requires more than understanding of where biodiversity hotspots are but a clear identification and resolution of social and economic barriers to solutions of addressing biodiversity loss Source: ScienceDirect.com share.google/hnvU0LW6cRi6...

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Requiem for the weeds: Reflections in Amsterdam city park Human and plant relationships are described within the rich tradition of multispecies ethnography, ethnobotany, and political ecology. In theorizing t…

Pleased to be invited to give a talk at the @Botanical Society of Scotland and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Garden, Edinburgh on 15th JANUARY 2026. The lecture Requiem for the weeds will be based on publications www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

31.08.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Strangely while animals for human food and ourselves comprise a staggering 96% of biomass today, we don't consider them invasive fauna

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Perhaps of interest related to Asian elephant sanctuaries: brill.com/view/journal...

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