Skip to content
  1. Events
  2. Environment/Sustainability

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Geography Colloquium: Loretta Lees, Boston University

Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice In this talk, Professor Lees will discuss Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice co-authored with Elanor Warwick (RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley, 2022). She will evaluate the geographical/spatial concept of Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing […]

Suing Polluters in the Public Interest

The lecture will be presented by Josh Kratka, Senior Attorney of the National Environmental Law Center, Boston MA. The National Environmental Law Center (NELC) is a non-profit public interest litigation center founded in 1990 to enforce anti-pollution laws and promote long-term solutions to the nation's pressing environmental problems. Download flyer

Geography Speaker: Wiranta Ginting, Asia Floor Wage Alliance

Building Worker's Power: Asia Floor Wage Alliance Wiranta Ginting is an organizer and labor rights educator, who has worked with trade unions, small grassroots NGOs and worker-led organizing programs in South-East Asia for twenty years. He leads workplace and community campaigns for decent work and living wages in global fashion supply chains. Currently, he is […]

Geography Colloquium: Andrea Marston, Rutgers University

Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia In an era of increased state involvement in natural resource governance, members of Bolivia’s “mining cooperatives” are commonly described as thieves of national wealth. Nevertheless, these small-scale miners won significant influence in Bolivia’s radically restructured Plurinational State, in which the rights of both Indigenous peoples […]

Geography Speaker: Jennifer Taylor, The Brooklyn Strategist

Building worker’s power: Workers united at Brooklyn Strategist  Jennifer Taylor is a worker-organizer at the board game cafe Brooklyn Strategist. In late 2023, workers at Brooklyn Strategist joined those at three Hex & Co. locations as well as Uncommons to successfully demand union recognition. All of these workers have affiliated with Workers' United, the union […]

Geography Colloquium: Kimberley Davis, United States Department of Agriculture

Conifer forest resilience to changing climate and fire regimes in the western US The combination of increasing area burned at high severity and warmer, drier post-fire conditions is making forests in the western United States vulnerable to ecological transformation. Dr. Kimberley Davis will examine how the interactive impacts of changing climate and wildfire activity are […]

Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change

Despite the importance of weather modification in the context of climate change, it has not attracted much recent attention from social scientists. Emily Yeh will provide a wide-ranging and hopefully fun overview of weather modification in the US, China, and the United Arab Emirates through a geographical lens.