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Environmental Politics and Justice


We research how political and economic inequalities shape and are influenced by environmental factors, leading to unequal vulnerabilities and distributions in climate change and its adaptation. Our expertise includes environmental security, justice, and climate adaptation strategies.

We conduct research to understand how historical and contemporary political and economic inequality both shape and are shaped by nature and by unequal global geographies of empire, development, and racial capitalism. This includes investigating how existing inequalities shape the unequal vulnerability to climate change, as well as the unequal distribution of risks and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Under this broad topic, we have expertise in a wide range of areas including environmental security, urban and agrarian environmental justice, waste, and climate change adaptation. 

Key research areas

env injustice

Environmental Justice 

Experts 



political ecology

Political Ecology 

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social life climate change

Social Life of Climate Change 

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Related research centres and units

Our experts work closely with LSE's world-leading research centres. These include:

Related research seminars

We organise expert-led research seminars that take place throughout the year. Many are open to the public. These include: