Our special issue, "Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions", is now finalized and published in the journal Belgeo! It includes 15 articles, in EN or FR, all available in open access: journals.openedition.org/belgeo/81567.... co-edited with Sophie Moreau, Sophie Vanwambeke & Edwin Zaccaï
Brendan Coolsaet
@bcoolsaet.bsky.social
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 (⭐️2nd ed. coming in 2026⭐️) / http://brendan.coolsaet.eu
I'll be in Paris tomorrow for the summer school of the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. I'll talk about how environmental justice went from a "research frontier to a policy solution" and what we can learn from that blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/sdds/summer-...
Summer School in Science and Policy | Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
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📢 Do you want to make the theoretical and empirical case for meaningful social inclusion and diverse leadership in UK climate policy and action? We’re delighted to announce a fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentship in the JUST Centre, based at @manchester.ac.uk 👉 Apply now: bit.ly/42gKLIH
Très heureux d'avoir pu apporter mon petit grain de sel au documentaire Res Nullius de Thomas Jean, qui illustre avec brio les racines communes des dépossessions sociales et environnementales à l'oeuvre à Bruxelles 🇧🇪 (actuellement en salle au cinéma Aventure) www.lesuricate.org/res-nullius-...
Res Nullius : biodiversité, aménagement du territoire et justice sociale
Un documentaire fort de sa cohérence, qui explique, réjouit et émeut.
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The @frbiodiv.bsky.social's CESAB has opened its 2026 call for synthesis research on biodiversity. 3y projects, funds 1 postdoc + 5 week long team meetings in Montpellier 🇫🇷. All disciplines eligible. Feel free to DM/email for questions. www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/app...
[Call for proposals FRB-CESAB 2026] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Through its Center for Biodiversity Synthesis and Analysis (CESAB), the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research opens its 2026 call for research proposals, to fund two innovative projects relating...
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Amazingly thorough live feed by @duycks.bsky.social on the landmark hearing against French fossil fuel major #Total starting today (including a double reference to French hiphop artist Orelsan 😏). Follow Sébastien for more 🤓
🔥 ⚖️ #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, 🇫🇷 🧑⚖️ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability. 📝 🧵 Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court ⬇️
🔥 ⚖️ #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐎𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 in historic case against TotalEnergies, today & tomorrow, 🇫🇷 🧑⚖️ French court holds landmark hearing that could redefine corporate climate accountability. 📝 🧵 Live reporting from Paris Judicial Court ⬇️
Thanks for the shout-out, Lisa! Excited to hear you've used this in class. Did the students like it?
In my environmental justice seminar today, we discussed the extent to which research on climate justice is informed by knowledge on justice outside the climate field. This was inspired by @bcoolsaet.bsky.social et al's 2025 response to a piece by Zimm et al from 2024. 1/n
I'll be at the Blue & Green Justice event in Paris today hosted by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & @cnrs.fr presenting the results of the Just Conservation project (2019-23) in which we reviewed 50 years of data on the role of Indigenous people for conservation: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/evenement...
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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My people have a call for papers up for #POLLEN2026 on Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ? Mon billet politique ce matin sur @franceculture.fr :
Les pauvres pensent-ils à la planète ?
Fin du monde ou fin du mois ? Une enquête du Pacte civique démonte quelques clichés : les plus précaires se préoccupent de l'environnement. Mais demandent aux politiques de les écouter.
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Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels 🇧🇪. 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...
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."
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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 🔥 masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social
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
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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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...
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!
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...
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
[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...
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📢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
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)
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....
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...
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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 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...
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)
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)
🚨 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)
Nous lançons un tout nouveau centre de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales de l'environnement à l'#UCLouvain ! 👀🤓🌻 Rejoignez-nous pour le séminaire inaugural d'EOS avec Eloi Laurent (Sciences Po/Stanford) le 6 décembre prochain. Inscriptions: ttps://forms.office.com/e/5KbpErzZPe #HelloESR
186 académiques s'opposent au Projet du gouvernement Degryse sur la hausse des frais d'inscription pour les étudiants non-européens en Belgique, dénonçant l’impact sur la diversité et la précarité des étudiants des Suds (1/2) www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
"Nous appelons à maintenir la tradition d'accessibilité et d'ouverture de l'enseignement supérieur aux étudiants internationaux"
Académiques attachés au maintien d'un modèle d'enseignement supérieur accessible, interculturel et riche de sa diversité, nous dénonçons le projet du gouvernement Degryse d'augmenter les frais d'inscr...
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