Month: August 2022

Janaka Jayawickrama shares with us his empirical experiences of humanitarian crises and responses to environmental hazards in the sixth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Janaka Jayawickrama’s work on community wellbeing has influenced the global humanitarian and development system and changed response policies … Continue reading Humanitarian crises and responses to environmental hazards

Paul Hudson shares with us his epistemological perspective of economics and emergencies in the fifth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene’ Paul Hudson is a generalist researcher in the fields of climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, and nature-based solutions, looking at the … Continue reading Economics and emergencies epistemological perspective

Mariana Vale shares with us her epistemological perspective of emergency and crisis in environmental science and ecology in the fourth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Mariana Vale’s research focuses on the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the tropics, with a … Continue reading Environmental science and ecology epistemological perspective

Peter Coventry shares with us his epistemological perspectives of emergency and crisis in public health in the third blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Peter Coventry’s work examines the relationship between green and blue spaces and health and wellbeing. Peter joined us in … Continue reading Public health epistemological perspective

Sarah Bezan shares with us her epistemological perspectives of the culture of emergency and crisis in this next blog in the series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene’ Sarah Bezan’s work examines the entangled social and ecological dimensions of species loss and revival in contemporary settler colonial … Continue reading Cultural epistemological perspectives

IGDC Co-Director Piran White introduces this Blog series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ In this blog series we will hear from the panellists that took part in our webinar entitled ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene’ which was made up of three sessions discussing: … Continue reading Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene: An introduction