Environmental Policy & Law

Professor Camila Bustos, scholar in environmental law and human rights, is one of four new faculty members joining the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

New report by Camila Bustos' organization reveals extent of UK law firms’ involvement with fossil fuel companies.

he InCommon Podcast interviewed Mehana, exploring how she came to write her book Kaiȧulu: Gathering Tides, and the themes and stories the book illuminates.

Senate Candidate. Seamstress. Park Ranger. Gardener. Activist. Filmmaker. Law Enforcement Officer. Reverend. Switzer Fellow Michelle Estelle Lewis ties together these seemingly disparate identities with the threads of faith, justice and environmental stewardship.

The webinar explored how the current war is affecting Ukraine’s forests, the social-environmental history and present day effects of war and climate change on these forest-steppe ecosystems and the people that live there.

Abstract: One of political ecology's main strengths is its emphasis on critique, and, through critique, its ability to better understand nature-society relations. Recently, calls have been made from within the sub-discipline – and from the social sciences more broadly – to move beyond critique, to engage nature-society relations more experimentally. Experimental approaches to nature-society relations invite new techniques and methods to study issues as they emerge, as opposed to those that have already happened.

Climate Policy Lab, directed by Kelly Gallagher, has released the Global Public Energy RD&D Expenditures Database, a comprehensive database covering public expenditures in energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) for countries that have declared an interest in and commitment to innovation in clean energy technologies.

LSCA reports that elite schools are sending lawyers into careers like oil and gas law at a rate that is over three times the average.