News | 11th March 2025
Social equity and care for the Earth: Tensions and Synergies
A seminar at the Oxford Department for International Development led by Séverine Deneulin explored how social equity and care for the Earth can be addressed jointly at a micro-territorial level, drawing on case studies from Latin America.
From Indigenous leadership to cross-sector coalitions, Latin America offers key lessons on linking social equity with environmental care. Dr Séverine Deneulin, Director of International Development at the Laudato Si' Research Institute, joined Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea on the 11th of March for the "Climate Change and the Challenges of Development" series at the Oxford Department of International Development.
Based on research recently published in a special issue of Oxford Development Studies, the seminar explored the conditions under which concerns for social equity and care for the earth can be addressed jointly at a micro-territorial level, drawing on case studies from Latin America. Case studies included environmental risk exposure in the Riachuelo River Basin in Buenos Aires, environmental governance over the Rio Lempa watershed at the Salvadoran-Honduran-Guatemalan border, water use in Central and Patagonian Chile with regard to agriculture and dams, conservation of the Amazon forest at the triple border between Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, and forest and biodiversity conservation in Southern Mexico.
You can read Dr Deneulin's words on the special issue, as well as the issue itself, by clicking below:
