Speaker:
David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney

David Schlosberg will be speaking at the Political Theory Workshop on Thursday, October 10 on his new book, Climate-Challenged Society (Oxford University Press), which is co-authored with John Dryzek and Richard Norgaard.

Their book provides an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change.

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, head of the Sydney Network on Climate Change and Society, and founding co-Director of the new Sydney Environment Institute. He is the author of Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature (Oxford University Press, 2007), the co-author of Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, Britain, Germany, and Norway (Oxford University Press, 2003), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Oxford University Press, 2011), Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Action and Advocacy (Routledge, 2008) and Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader (Oxford University Press, 1998 and 2005).