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Brendan Coolsaet

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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

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Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

01.10.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1121    ๐Ÿ” 579    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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Les pauvres pensent-ils ร  la planรจteย ? Fin du monde ou fin du moisย ? Une enquรชte du Pacte civique dรฉmonte quelques clichรฉsย : les plus prรฉcaires se prรฉoccupent de l'environnement. Mais demandent aux politiques de les รฉcouter.

Les pauvres pensent-ils ร  la planรจte ?

Mon billet politique ce matin sur @franceculture.fr :

23.09.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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

14.09.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

14.09.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Constitutional Court suspends postponement of Brussels' Low Emission Zone "This decision is a reminder that the LEZ is an essential tool for reducing pollution, protecting the most vulnerable, and ensuring healthier air for everyone."

Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช. 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...

11.09.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ๐Ÿ”ฅ masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social

30.07.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ejlist - The environmental justice studies mailing list - info

Send it on the EJList! sympa-1.sipr.ucl.ac.be/listes/info/... (650 subscribers now)

14.07.2025 06:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

12.07.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 139    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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L'absence de solutions collectives face au changement climatique nous force dans des engrenages individualisants, amplifiants ร  la fois les รฉmissions de gaz ร  effets de serre et les inรฉgalitรฉs face au changement climatique. Interview de l'รฉtรฉ โ˜€๏ธ ๐Ÿฅต dans Moustique mag: www.moustique.be/notre-epoque...

07.07.2025 08:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

16.06.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

16.06.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the event of the EOS seminar with An Ansoms on 22 May 2025

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...

21.05.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversitรฉ 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 ๐Ÿง”โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŒด Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities ๐Ÿค“! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social

21.05.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For the first time in its 600-year history Leuven Universityโ€™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 countryโ€™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

15.05.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

14.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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)

14.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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...

14.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

14.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

14.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขnew 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...

14.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

24.03.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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....

05.03.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Join conversation

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

06.03.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 cover๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’… Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)

05.03.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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

19.02.2025 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

13.02.2025 09:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 347    ๐Ÿ” 375    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

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)

13.02.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

13.02.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

13.02.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the webpage of the current issue of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change

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 ๐Ÿฃ, 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/...

13.02.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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