LSE Geography & Environment

🔜 On Thursday 5 Feb we welcome Siddharth Menon (LSE) to the Human Geography Seminar Series.

If you wish to attend the seminar, please email geog.research@lse.ac.uk

🔴 zurl.co/VAOhx

🔜 On Tuesday 3 Feb we welcome Max Liboiron, Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, to the Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series.

If you wish to attend the seminar, please email geog.research@lse.ac.uk

🔴 zurl.co/7JLCR

We’re launching the G&E Junior Applied Economics Seminar - a monthly, PhD-led seminar series focused on economic geography, environmental economics & innovation.

🎤 Our first speaker is Nicholas P. Sweeney on 5 Feb.

📩 Interested? Email H.J.Hesse@lse.ac.uk or S.Finizio@lse.ac.uk

It's a pleasure to welcome Prof Don Mitchell to give a seminar in @lsegeography.bsky.social on 2 Feb, discussing today’s gig economy and “independent contractor” model of urban labour growing out of earlier agricultural labour struggles. If you'd like to attend, pls email geog.research[at]lse.ac.uk

New publication from Morgan Olive-Carmellini, PhD candidate in Human Geography and Urban Studies.

Morgan’s first article is out now, exploring how police socialisation shapes racial identities, based on ethnographic research with the Military Police of São Paulo.

🔴 zurl.co/e1l4r

🔜 On Thursday 5 Feb we welcome Carlo Menon (OECD) to the Economic Geography and Spatial Economics Seminar Series.

If you wish to attend the seminar, please email geog.research@lse.ac.uk

🔴 zurl.co/lXbBt

Creative Reuse of Cities Explore how cities can evolve sustainably through creative reuse, balancing progress and preservation while protecting history, character and community identity.

Join us at Creative Reuse of Cities, a public lecture with architect Ondrej Chybik, as we explore how reusing existing urban spaces can shape sustainable and vibrant futures.

📅 Thursday 19 February | 6.30-8pm
📍 LSE

zurl.co/NQrbW

📄 New paper by @drtels.bsky.social, Felicia Liu, John Holden, and Vernon Yian.


The authors explore how framing environmental disasters as “seasons” - such as Southeast Asia’s “haze season” - normalises air pollution and shapes whether it persists or is mitigated.

🔴 zurl.co/SbXiP

Coming up this term - open to all, please join us! Sponsored by @lsegeography.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social and @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Here is the line-up for the Human Geography seminar series in @lsegeography.bsky.social for the winter term this year. We start with @kbrickell.bsky.social on 22-January, followed by our very own Siddharth Menon on 5-Feb.

Can natural capital be replaced? How the weak versus strong sustainability divide will shape our common future | Eric Neumayer Eric Neumayer will discuss how the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital lies at the heart of the controversy.

📢 LSE Public Lecture - Can natural capital be replaced?

Dive into the debate on weak vs strong sustainability with Prof Eric Neumayer and explore whether natural capital can truly be substituted by other forms of capital. 🌍

🗓 10 Feb 2026 | 🕡 6.30–8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre & Online
👉 zurl.co/vSltz

We’re launching the G&E Junior Applied Economics Seminar - a monthly, PhD-led seminar series focused on economic geography, environmental economics & innovation.

🎤 Our first speaker is Nicholas P. Sweeney on 5 Feb.

📩 Interested? Email H.J.Hesse@lse.ac.uk or S.Finizio@lse.ac.uk

🌆 How can cities evolve without losing their soul? Join us for Creative Reuse of Cities - a public lecture exploring sustainable urban transformation through creative reuse of existing spaces.

Speakers: Ondrej Chybik, Hyun Bang Shin

👉 Register to attend zurl.co/FzjkI

Yesterday saw @lsegeography.bsky.social's Away Day. Speed-date-style introductions helped learn more about each other’s work, followed by three sessions reflecting on how we operate as a department and how we can improve (plus a quiz after lunch). It was great to reconnect after the winter break

Can natural capital be replaced? How the weak versus strong sustainability divide will shape our common future | Eric Neumayer Eric Neumayer will discuss how the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital lies at the heart of the controversy.

📢 LSE Public Lecture - Can natural capital be replaced?

Dive into the debate on weak vs strong sustainability with Prof Eric Neumayer and explore whether natural capital can truly be substituted by other forms of capital. 🌍

🗓 10 Feb 2026 | 🕡 6.30–8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre & Online
👉 zurl.co/vSltz

Sociology of Hope | Book launch at LSE Join us for our book talk, 'Sociology of Hope' | Wednesday 21 January 2026 | 6.30pm to 8pm | Online (via Zoom)

🌍 Upcoming event | Sociology of hope

In his new book, sociologist Adrián Scribano presents a theory connecting hope to classical sociological traditions, revolutions, utopia, social change, collective action, and more.

📅 Wed 21 Jan 2026
⏰ 6.30pm
📍 Online

🔜 On Thursday 22 Jan we welcome Katherine Brickell (King's College London) to the Human Geography Seminar Series.

If you wish to attend the seminar, please email geog.research@lse.ac.uk

🔴 zurl.co/VAOhx

9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics Information about the LSE Department of Geography and Environment's Environmental Economics Workshop.

📢 Call for Papers! The 9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Econ. will be held in London June 8-9
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social

🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...

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