David Schlosberg

David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney.His main theoretical interests are inenvironmental politics, environmental movements, and political theory, and in particular the intersection of the three with his groundbreaking and highly-cited work on environmental, ecological, and multispecies justice.His other theoretical interests are in climate justice, climate adaptation and resilience, and environmental movements and the practices of everyday life.Professor Schlosberg’smore applied work includes justice in adaptation and resilience planning, the social impacts of climate change, and community-based food movements and policy.

He is the author or co-author of numerous books, includingDefining Environmental Justice(Oxford, 2007) andSustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life(Oxford 2019); he is co-editor of bothThe Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society(Oxford 2011), andThe Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory(Oxford 2016). His articles are on the top-ten cited list of the journalsContemporary Political Theory, Environmental Politics, Ethics and International Affairs, Global Environmental Politics,andWIREs Climate Change.Professor Schlosberg has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, Australian National University, Princeton University, University of Washington, UC Santa Cruz, and University of Manchester, among others.

Research interests

• Environmental Political Thought
• Environmental Politics
• Environmental and Climate Justice, Ecological and Multispecies Justice
• Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, and Transition
• Environmental Movements
• Sustainable Materialism
• Contemporary Political Theory