Brendan Coolsaet

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 🔥 masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social

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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!

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 à la fois les émissions de gaz à effets de serre et les inégalités face au changement climatique. Interview de l'été ☀️ 🥵 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...

[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...

Dear #biodiversity research folks, we at CESAB have 2 new calls out for seed grants 🧔‍♂️🌴 Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities 🤓! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social

For the first time in its 600-year history Leuven University’s next Rector will be a woman | VRT NWS: news Tine Baelmans and Severine Vermeire have made it through to the second round of the process to elect a new Rector at the country’s old university, KU Leuven. This means that soon for the first time in...

For the first time in history, 6 of the 10 Belgian universities (the biggest ones!) will be run by women (starting next year). I dunno about you, but in today's world seemingly dominated by conservative backlashes, this feels like such a comforting evolution

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

📢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

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...

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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To join online: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)

C'est demain! Rejoignez nous à 13h30 au Collège Leclercq (LECL93) à Louvain-la-Neuve ou sur Teams via teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

with @julianagyeman.bsky.social (Tufts University), @pkashwan.bsky.social (Brandeis University), @danielle-rivera.bsky.social (UC Berkeley), Stacia Ryder (Utah State University), @dschlosberg.bsky.social (University of Sydney), @farhanasultana.com (Syracuse University)

For the last 4 decades, environmental & climate justice has produced a wealth of frameworks, principles & concepts that are clear and consistent, emerging from both social and scholarly movements. Failing to engage with this replicates forms and practices of injustice and undermines climate policy.

Justice considerations in climate research - Nature Climate Change Justice issues are integral to a variety of climate science and policy processes. This Perspective provides a framework, based on philosophical theory, to explain key justice concepts and how they can...

The piece is a reaction to an article published earlier this year by Caroline Zimm and colleagues in the same journal: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We argue that, paradoxically, papers like this one tend to contribute to the very problem they want to address.

A screenshot of the webpage of the current issue of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change

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/...

Le jeudi 20/2, @dr-pierre-andre.bsky.social et Axel Gosseries (FNRS) présentent leur livre "La justice climatique" (Que Sais-je?, 2024) à EOS: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts.... Rejoignez-nous (sur place/Teams) ! (une collab avec le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Crise Ecologique)

You can download it on my website: brendan.coolsaet.eu !

Justice considerations in climate research - Nature Climate Change Justice issues are integral to a variety of climate science and policy processes. This Perspective provides a framework, based on philosophical theory, to explain key justice concepts and how they can...

This Correspondence is a reaction to an article published earlier this year in Nature Climate Change doi.org/10.1038/s415... @natureportfolio.bsky.social

A screenshot of the article "Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research" on the website of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change

🚨 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

C'est vendredi ! (On commence à 13h30, pas 14h)