Climate Justice and Territory
Join Patrik Baard (University of Oslo) in a discussion of how justice relates to territory, and how climate change as well as the means by which to mitigate climate change, can lead to injustices.
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Time: Wednesday 18 October. 10:15-12:00
Place: Room U121, Clock Building NMBU
Climate change will have large-scale territorial impacts. Join Patrik Baard in a discussion of the many justice-related challenges that these impacts raise.
In this context, territory is understood as a normative concept that describes a delimited space under some agent’s jurisdiction, where the agent is a politically organized collective, and where the rights over that place secure a relevant degree of self-determination for that collective.
Due to this definition, a main injustice connected to loss of territory is the loss, undermining, or lack of possibility to exercise one’s collective right to self-determination, which requires a degree of control over the place.
Patrik Baard will give an overview of both central justice claims, how justice relate to territory, and how climate change as well as the means by which to mitigate climate change, can lead to injustices.
About the speaker
Patrik Baard is a Postdoctoral Fellow within philosophy at the University of Oslo's Department of Philosophy, Classics, Huistory of Art and Ideas. He is currently working on applying normative concepts such as rights to the environment. He previous research has included themes within justice and climate change, energy justice scenarios, and biodiversity. He is the author of Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation (Routledge, 2022).
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Open seminar, no registration required. Organised by the Centre for Landscape Democracy (CLaD).