Environment and society

Climate change now makes daily impacts on all our lives, but societies have always been engaged with natural environments. Human societies are shaped by environments, and vice versa. Research centres on this eco-social nexus: how can urgent issues of human-environmental impacts — like climate change, loss of biodiversity, genetic modification and nuclear power and waste generation — be engaged with social justice and with cultural diversity?

The convenor is Professor Heather Goodall.

Projects include:

  • Research and action in the ‘movement of movements’
  • Climate Action Research Group
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.