Ep. 25, Duality of Environmental Justice Conference

Listen as professor William P. Barnett and Stanford student Charlotte Kramer host a discussion with professor Roldopho Dirzo, Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives in Environmental Justice, Bing Prof in Environmental Science, and Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment discuss the takeaways from an academic conference held at Stanford GSB on March 18-19 2024.
Historically disenfranchised communities have been on the frontlines of the challenges of the Anthropocene, with disproportionality in two major dimensions. On the one hand, global environmental change - the combined negative effects of land use change, over-exploitation, pollution, and climate change - has a disproportionately negative impact on the sectors of society that contribute the least to it. On the other hand, those communities that have historically been suppressed and marginalized also receive the lesser share of nature’s ecosystem services - the once bountiful resources of Mother Earth’s life-supporting systems. This conference examined the variety of mechanisms that underlie such duality and provided a forum to discuss how the development of a strong environmental justice culture and scholarship can help us to close the gap knowledge-to-action to create ethical, just, and resilient solutions for local, regional, and global sustainability.
The Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Research Conference Series is hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Season 2, episode 25, recorded March 18, 2023
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