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Professor David Schlosberg
B.A. (Honors), University of California Santa Cruz, PhD, MS, University of Oregon
Director, Sydney Environment Institute
Professor of Environmental Politics
Professor of Environmental Politics
Phone
+61 2 9351 7743
Address
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Environment Institute
Member of Sydney Policy Lab
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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.
- 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
Available for MS and PhD Supervision
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| For Colony and Empire: The Lifeways and Lifeworlds of Ants as Paradox and Paradigm of Terrestrial Resilience | Hannah DELLA BOSCA |
| Banu: An Alternative Way for Atoni Meto to deal with climate change. A comparative study on Atoni Meto knowledge and practice in West Timor, Indonesia and Oecusse, Timor Leste | Yohanes USBOBO |
Selected publications
Sustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Political Animals and Animal Politics
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Climate-Challenged Society
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
(Oxford University Press, 2011)
Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Activism and Advocacy
(Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis, 2008)
Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
The Environmental Politics Reader: Debating The Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader - Second Edition
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
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Publications
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Books
- Schlosberg, D., Craven, L. (2019). Sustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Dryzek, J., Norgaard, R., Schlosberg, D. (2013). Climate-Challenged Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Schlosberg, D. (2007). Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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Edited Books
- Gabrielson, T., Hall, C., Meyer, J., Schlosberg, D. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Wissenburg, M., Schlosberg, D. (2014). Political Animals and Animal Politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Dryzek, J., Norgaard, R., Schlosberg, D. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
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Book Chapters
- Celermajer, D., Chang, D., Schlosberg, D., Winter, C. (2024). Liberalism and the More-Than-Human. In Duncan Ivison (Eds.), The Research Handbook on Liberalism, (pp. 308-330). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
- Celermajer, D., Schlosberg, D. (2023). On Ignorance, Imagination and Adaptation. In Peter Christoff (Eds.), The Fires Next Time, (pp. 257-277). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
- Schlosberg, D. (2023). Turbulence, Converging Crises, and Environmental Justice. In Peter Dauvergne and Leah Shipton (Eds.), Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent Era. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.
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Journals
- Schlosberg, D., Rickards, R., Pearse, H., Della Bosca, H., Moraes, O. (2024). Critical Environmental Justice in Contemporary Scholarship and Movements: Consensus and Plurality of the Discourse. Environmental Politics, in press. [More Information]
- McDonald, M., Park, S., Anantharajah, K., Burke, A., Celermajer, D., Evans, M., Eckersley, R., Gulliver, R., McNaught, R., Morgan, W., Schlosberg, D. (2024). Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History. [More Information]
- Rockström, J., Kim, R., Lenton, T., Lenzi, D., Nakicenovic, N., Neumann, B., Schuppert, F., Winkelmann, R., Bosselmann, K., Folke, C., Schlosberg, D., et al (2024). The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(5), e2301531121. [More Information]
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Report
- Naderpajouh, N., Zolghadr, A., Habibi Moshfegh, P., Pakizeh, A., Schlosberg, D., Opdyke, A., Howard, A., Morgan, S., Van Ogtrop, F., Matous, P., Bailie, J., Hadigheh, S., Zhang, H., Crock, M., Vervoort, R. (2024). Community Risk Assessment: Connecting technical knowledge with local and Indigenous knowledge. Sydney Environment Institute.
- Webster, S., Pittaway, E., Gillies-palmer, Z., Schlosberg, D., Matous, P., Longman, J., Howard, A., Bailie, J., Viney, G., Verlie, B., Celermajer, D., Naderpajouh, N., Rawsthorne, M., Iveson, K., Troy, J., et al (2024). Empowering Communities, Harnessing Local Knowledges: Self-Organising Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Webster, S., Pittaway, E., Gillies-palmer, Z., Schlosberg, D., Longman, J., Howard, A., Rawsthorne, M., Viney, G., Verlie, B., Celermajer, D., Bailie, J., Matous, P., Naderpajouh, N., Troy, J., et al (2024). Stories are the Toolkit: Community-led Disaster Response, Recovery and Adaptation.
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Research Reports
- Craven, L., Schlosberg, D., Mann, A. (2018). Food & Cities: The role of cities for achieving the sustainable development goals | 5.6 Sydney: Addressing the SDGs through Food Business Incubation: FoodLab Sydney, (pp. 145 - 151). Parma, Italy: Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) and the Milan Food Policy Office.
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2024
- Naderpajouh, N., Zolghadr, A., Habibi Moshfegh, P., Pakizeh, A., Schlosberg, D., Opdyke, A., Howard, A., Morgan, S., Van Ogtrop, F., Matous, P., Bailie, J., Hadigheh, S., Zhang, H., Crock, M., Vervoort, R. (2024). Community Risk Assessment: Connecting technical knowledge with local and Indigenous knowledge. Sydney Environment Institute.
- Schlosberg, D., Rickards, R., Pearse, H., Della Bosca, H., Moraes, O. (2024). Critical Environmental Justice in Contemporary Scholarship and Movements: Consensus and Plurality of the Discourse. Environmental Politics, in press. [More Information]
- McDonald, M., Park, S., Anantharajah, K., Burke, A., Celermajer, D., Evans, M., Eckersley, R., Gulliver, R., McNaught, R., Morgan, W., Schlosberg, D. (2024). Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History. [More Information]
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2023
- Celermajer, D., Schlosberg, D., Wadiwel, D., Winter, C. (2023). A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 2050. Political Theory, 51(1), 39-53. [More Information]
- Longman, J., Braddon, M., Verlie, B., Schlosberg, D., Hampshire, L., Hawke, C., Noonan, A., Saurman, E. (2023). Building Resilience to the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change in Rural Australia. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 12, 1-8. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2023). Communities in action: grounded imaginaries in practice. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 156, 107-109.
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2022
- Biermann, F., Koomen, J., Gupta, A., Ali, S., Conca, K., Hajer, M., Kashwan, P., Kotze, L., Leach, M., Messner, D., Schlosberg, D., et al (2022). Solar Geoengineering The Case for an International Non-Use Agreement. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. [More Information]
2021
- Elkharouf, O., Cox, K., Schlosberg, D., Mann, A., Perroni, E. (2021). In the land of the "fair go": global food policy lessons beyond the charity model. Local Environment, 26(10), 1192-1204. [More Information]
- Tschakert, P., Schlosberg, D., Celermajer, D., Rickards, L., Winter, C., Thaler, M., Stewart-Harawira, M., Verlie, B. (2021). Multispecies justice: Climate-just futures with, for and beyond humans. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(2), e699. [More Information]
- Celermajer, D., Schlosberg, D., Rickards, L., Stewart-Harawira, M., Thaler, M., Tschakert, P., Verlie, B., Winter, C. (2021). Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics. Environmental Politics, 30, 119-140. [More Information]
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2020
- Pickering, J., Backstrand, K., Schlosberg, D. (2020). Between environmental and ecological democracy: theory and practice at the democracy-environment nexus. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 22(1), 1-15. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D., Della Bosca, H., Craven, L. (2020). Disaster, Place, and Justice: Experiencing the Disruption of Shock Events. In Anna Lukasiewicz, Claudia Baldwin (Eds.), Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours, (pp. 239-259). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2020). From postmaterialism to sustainable materialism: the environmental politics of practice-based movements. Environmental Politics, 34(1), 9216-112. [More Information]
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2019
- Schlosberg, D. (2019). Disruption, community, and resilient governance: Environmental justice in the Anthropocene. In Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Tine De Moor, Christian Rohr, Heinzpeter Znoj (Eds.), The Commons in a Glocal World: Global Connections and Local Responses, (pp. 54-71). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2019). Further uses for the luxury/subsistence distinction: Impacts, ceilings, and adaptation. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 21(2), 295-302. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D., Backstrand, K., Pickering, J. (2019). Reconciling Ecological and Democratic Values: Recent Perspectives on Ecological Democracy. Environmental Values, 28(1), 1-8. [More Information]
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2018
- Boylan, S., Beyer, K., Schlosberg, D., Mortimer, A., Hime, N., Scalley, B., Alders, R., Corvalan, C., Capon, A. (2018). A conceptual framework for climate change, health and wellbeing in NSW, Australia. Public Health Research and Practice, 28(4), 1-6. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2018). Environmental (In)justice. In Noel Castree, Mike Hulme, and James Proctor (Eds.), Companion to Environmental Studies, (pp. 629-634). London: Routledge. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D., Rickards, L., Byrne, J. (2018). Environmental Justice and Attachment to Place: Australian Cases. In Not known (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice, (pp. 591-602). TBC. [More Information]
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2017
- Schlosberg, D., Collins, L., Niemeyer, S. (2017). Adaptation Policy and Community Discourse: Risk, Vulnerability, and Just Transformation. Environmental Politics, 26(3), 413-437. [More Information]
2016
- Schlosberg, D. (2016). Environmental Management for the Anthropocene. In Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, David Schlosberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, (pp. 193-208). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Gabrielson, T., Hall, C., Meyer, J., Schlosberg, D. (2016). Introducing Environmental Political Theory. In Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, David Schlosberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, (pp. 3-14). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D., Coles, R. (2016). The new environmentalism of everyday life: Sustainability, material flows and movements. Contemporary Political Theory, 15(2), 160-181. [More Information]
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2015
- Schlosberg, D., Collins, L., Niemeyer, S. (2015). City of Sydney Resident's Panel on Climate Adaptation.
2014
- Castree, N., Adams, W., Barry, J., Brockington, D., Büscher, B., Corbera, E., Demeritt, D., Duffy, R., Felt, U., Neves, K., Schlosberg, D., et al (2014). Changing the intellectual climate. Nature Climate Change, 4(9), 763-768. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2014). Ecological Justice for the Anthropocene. In Marcel Wissenburg, David Schlosberg (Eds.), Political Animals and Animal Politics, (pp. 75-89). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D., Collins, L. (2014). From environmental to climate justice: climate change and the discourse of environmental justice. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 5(3), 359-374. [More Information]
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2013
- Dryzek, J., Norgaard, R., Schlosberg, D. (2013). Climate-Challenged Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Schlosberg, D. (2013). Political Challenges of the Climate-Changed Society. PS: Political Science and Politics, 46(1), 13-17. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2013). Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 37-55. [More Information]
2012
- Schlosberg, D. (2012). Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy. Ethics and International Affairs, 26(4), 445-461. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2012). Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change. In Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Eds.), Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future, (pp. 165-183). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. [More Information]
2011
- Dryzek, J., Norgaard, R., Schlosberg, D. (2011). Climate Change and Society: Approaches and Responses. In John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard and David Schlosberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, (pp. 3-17). New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Dryzek, J., Norgaard, R., Schlosberg, D. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
2010
- Schlosberg, D., Carruthers, D. (2010). Indigenous Struggles, Environmental Justice, and Community Capabilities. Global Environmental Politics, 10(4), 12-35. [More Information]
2009
- Schlosberg, D., Zavestoski, S., Shulman, S. (2009). Deliberation in E-Rulemaking? The Problem of Mass Participation. In Todd Davies, Seeta Pena Gangadharan (Eds.), Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, (pp. 133-148). San Francisco, United States: CSLI Publications.
2008
- Schlosberg, D., Rinfret, S. (2008). Ecological Modernisation, American Style. In Elizabeth Bomberg, David Schlosberg (Eds.), Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Activism and Advocacy. United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D., Rinfret, S. (2008). Ecological modernisation, American style. Environmental Politics, 17(2), 254-275. [More Information]
- Bomberg, E., Schlosberg, D. (2008). Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Activism and Advocacy. United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
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2007
- Schlosberg, D. (2007). Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
- Schlosberg, D., Zavestoski, S., Shulman, S. (2007). Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 4(1), 37-55. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2007). Reconceiving Environmental Justice: Global Movements and Political Theories. In Ian Lowe, Jouni Paavola (Eds.), Environmental Values in a Globalizing World: Nature, Justice and Governance. United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
2006
- Zavestoski, S., Shulman, S., Schlosberg, D. (2006). Democracy and the Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking. Science, Technology and Human Values, 31(4), 383-408. [More Information]
- Schlosberg, D. (2006). The Pluralist Imagination. In John S. Dryzek; Bonnie Honig; Anne Phillips (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Schlosberg, D., Shulman, S., Zavestoski, S. (2006). Virtual Environmental Citizenship: Web-Based Public Participation in Rule Making in the United States. In Andrew Dobson, Derek Bell (Eds.), Environmental Citizenship, (pp. 207-236). United States: MIT Press.
2005
- Schlosberg, D. (2005). Environmental and Ecological Justice: Theory and Practice in the United States. In John Barry, Robyn Eckersley (Eds.), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis, (pp. 97-116). United States: MIT Press.
- Schlosberg, D. (2005). Networks and Mobile Arrangements: Organizational Innovation in the U.S. Environmental Justice Movement. In John S. Dryzek, David Schlosberg (Eds.), The Environmental Politics Reader: Debating The Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader - Second Edition. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
- Dryzek, J., Schlosberg, D. (2005). The Environmental Politics Reader: Debating The Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader - Second Edition. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2004
- Schlosberg, D. (2004). Reconceiving Environmental Justice: Global Movements And Political Theories. Environmental Politics, 13(3), 517-540. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2023
- Direct Air Capture and the initiation of a national alliance on carbon drawdown, D'Alessandro D, Moore K, Schlosberg D, Tattersall A, Wenger S, Wright C, University of Sydney/Industry Collaboration Program
2022
- FoodLab Sydney, Schlosberg D, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Research Impact Award
- Self-organising systems to minimise future disaster risk, Schlosberg D, Resilience NSW/Disaster Risk Reduction Fund State Risk Reduction stream
- Developing systems and capacities to protect animals in catastrophic fires, Celermajer D, Schlosberg D, Verlie B, Department of Industry, Science and Resources/Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants Program
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