Dr. Helen Kopnina
@helenkopnina.bsky.social
#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl .. more
#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl
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Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals
Building on the Millennium Development Goals, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) were established. Despite the willingness of many ed...
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Why is Education for Sustainable Development Goals #SDSs not enough to equip students to achieve #Sustainability and what can be done better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dr. Helen Kopnina: Requiem for the Weeds
Dr Kopnina, Helen (PhD Cambridge University, 2002) is currently employed at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Date: Thursday 15 January 2…
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Brilliant to see #BUC2026 growing! Plant literacy matters as biodiversity crisis deepens. We need to revalue what we're losing - the common, the overlooked, the "weeds" botsoc.scot/2025/12/31/r... #PlantBlindness #Biodiversity @camplantsci.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting
Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…
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as long as the #EUClimatePact also considers future of all planetary citizens, e.g. intrinsic value of #biodiveristy see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Rob Marchant, Helen Kopnina
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 More #BUC2026 teams! Aberdeen - 2025 champions, Cambridge 2024 champions, Eden Project several times semifinalists, Edge Hill teams from start 2016, Essex new this year, Edinburgh another Scottish team! Welcome to all!! @camplantsci.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The inclusion of biodiversity into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework: A strategic integration of ecocentric extinction accounting
Traditional Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have primarily focused on promoting sustainable finance, positive screening, and susta…
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#Hope matters. Research shows genuine climate action requires moving beyond individual behavior change to systemic accountability, like ecocentric extinction accounting in corporate ESG frameworks.
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#ClimateAction #Biodiversity #ESG
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#ClimateAction #Biodiversity #ESG
It was a pleasure today to present at an invited Ignite Talk at AIESEP Research Association Specialist Seminar Future Matters: Reimagining Physical Education
for a Changing World.
Lausanne, Switzerland.
#HigherEducation #SustainabilityEducation #PhysicalEducation #EnvironmentalEducation
for a Changing World.
Lausanne, Switzerland.
#HigherEducation #SustainabilityEducation #PhysicalEducation #EnvironmentalEducation
#ai #academic #bias #academic #academicculture #researchers #academicculture #research #highereducation #criticalthinking #northumbriauniversity #sustainability #environmentalscience | Helen Kopnina
On AI Bias: A Reflection
I recently asked Claude (an AI assistant recommended by my university https://lnkd.in/eJvDfTQ4) to reflect on bias after our exchange about a research paper. I'd noticed Claud...
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a longer reflection on bias and Ai can be found here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I asked Claude (my uni's recommended #AI tool) to reflect on bias after noticing ideological patterns. Training data reflects taboos. When we make topics "problematic," AI learns those boundaries too. How do we catch ourselves responding to assumptions? #AcademicCulture #CriticalThinking #HigherEd
Happy to share our new article "Integrating critical thinking about #SDGs: Making #Biodiversity matter for business students" doi.org/10.1177/0973...
With Teresa Roca & Karim Sorour #CorporateResponsibility #BusinessEducation #Sustainability #HigherEducation #EnvironmentalEducation
With Teresa Roca & Karim Sorour #CorporateResponsibility #BusinessEducation #Sustainability #HigherEducation #EnvironmentalEducation
INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.
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INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"
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not many #SDG approaches address population & economic growth, consistently avoiding root causes of ecological overshoot. Real #sustainability means challenging the growth paradigm, not just managing symptoms.
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#SDGs #Degrowth #UrbanDevelopment #EcologicalLimits
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#SDGs #Degrowth #UrbanDevelopment #EcologicalLimits
Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel
As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political contex...
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Fascinating pushback against Jason Hickel's claim that #degrowth is just a "gateway" to #ecosocialism. Liegey, Nelson & Leahy open important debate about movement autonomy #politicalstrategy in #climatecrisis era.
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#ecosocialism #postcapitalism #sustainability
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#ecosocialism #postcapitalism #sustainability
Reposted by Helen Kopnina
🌱 🌍 Defenders of the #Earth, Vol 9 No 1 is live!
Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
#ColonialPerception #JaneGoodall #Indigeneity #ConservationPolitics #PhenomenologyOfNature #IndigenousLandManagement #AnimalEthics #AnimalNarratives #LiminalEcology #EcoCulturalCriticism
Access it here: ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...
#ColonialPerception #JaneGoodall #Indigeneity #ConservationPolitics #PhenomenologyOfNature #IndigenousLandManagement #AnimalEthics #AnimalNarratives #LiminalEcology #EcoCulturalCriticism
This perspective seems polarizing. Categorizing an entire user base as 'Nazi porn' supports 'Manchurian' subversion narratives. It replaces nuanced debate with a totalizing moral ultimatum. 'Us or against us' rhetoric actively erodes the shared reality required for a healthy democratic discourse.
We need #Ecoliteracy fostering #CriticalThinking about #Degrowth, #CircularEconomy & #Education for #Biodiversity
Why remain critical of #SDGs? Our earlier work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Alternatives disucssed in BERJ: doi.org/10.1002/berj...
Why remain critical of #SDGs? Our earlier work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Alternatives disucssed in BERJ: doi.org/10.1002/berj...
<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies and investors to publish data on the....
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🌱 How can #BusinessEducation address the #BiodiversityCrisis?
#BusinessSchools have a "biodiversity blind spot".
We argue for #Ecopedagogy & #Ecoliteracy that foster #CriticalThinking about #Degrowth, #CircularEconomy & #EnvironmentalEducation. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#BusinessSchools have a "biodiversity blind spot".
We argue for #Ecopedagogy & #Ecoliteracy that foster #CriticalThinking about #Degrowth, #CircularEconomy & #EnvironmentalEducation. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Helen Kopnina, Aaron Sojourner, Susan Strasser
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Requiem for the weeds
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A great illustration for presentation Requiem for the weeds | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghhttps://www.rbge.org.uk/membership/members-events/requiem-for-the-weeds/
Requiem for the Weeds by Dr Helen Kopnina
YouTube video by Botanical Society of Scotland
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🌿"Requiem for the Weeds" at @thebotanics.bsky.social
When did dandelions become worthless but tulips worthy of admiration? Time to reimagine urban space beyond human utility. 🌱
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhO...
#Biodiversity #UrbanNature #Sustainability #ClimateAction #UrbanEcology #Green
When did dandelions become worthless but tulips worthy of admiration? Time to reimagine urban space beyond human utility. 🌱
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhO...
#Biodiversity #UrbanNature #Sustainability #ClimateAction #UrbanEcology #Green
A decade on, this research showed how commericial–NGO partnerships can raise #environmentalawareness reinforcing #consumerism. As #greenwashing #CSR grows, the tension between #environmentaleducation & growth-driven #sustainableconsumption hasn’t gone. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Revisiting our 2014 paper with the late Prof. Frans Meijers on #EducationForSustainableDevelopment challenges how ESD often overlooks deep #EnvironmentalEthics and teacher identity in practice. @unesco.org look beyond #SDGs for transformative #Sustainability education. doi.org/10.1108/IJSH...
Vehicular air pollution and asthma: implications for education for health and environmental sustainability
Studies show a direct relationship between occurrence of asthma and increases of particulate matter in the air. Private transportation is found to be a significant contributor to this problem. The ...
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Why is transport policy still failing our lungs? 🚗💨My research on #Asthma and #CarCulture argues we can't solve respiratory health with #VehicularDependency
#EnvironmentalEducation can bridge gaps between #PublicHealth #Sustainability #AirPollution #UrbanPlanning doi.org/10.1080/1354...
#EnvironmentalEducation can bridge gaps between #PublicHealth #Sustainability #AirPollution #UrbanPlanning doi.org/10.1080/1354...
The "six-seven" meme that plagued classrooms in 2025 spread like #EducationForSustainableDevelopment. When kids mindlessly repeat nonsense, we call it #brainrot. When #HigherEducation adopts #SDG we call it innovation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A decade on, this 2015 article still challenges us: can #EnvironmentalEducation stay neutral in a #Neoliberal world? It calls for a radical re-orientation of #EducationForSustainability away from mere token #Pluralism and toward meaningful #Sustainability
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Equally important is to understand how anthropocentric SDGs to little to address the root causes of biodiversity loss
Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services on JSTOR
HELEN KOPNINA ¹², Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services, Environmental Conservation, Vol. 44, No. 1, Thematic section. Forest Ecosystem Services (MARCH 2017), pp. 24-33
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See also Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services www.jstor.org/stable/26320...
Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services on JSTOR
HELEN KOPNINA ¹², Commodification of natural resources and forest ecosystem services, Environmental Conservation, Vol. 44, No. 1, Thematic section. Forest Ecosystem Services (MARCH 2017), pp. 24-33
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Good to see forest represented as a living being, not just as a source of natural resources and ecosystem services www.jstor.org/stable/26320...