Climate Justice and the University

This powerful book inspires the transformative change that the world needs. Jennie Stephens convincingly shows that institutions of higher education can and should play a leading role in advancing climate justice. A hopeful vision for a better future!

If you are tired of obfuscating jargon, techie sales gimmicks, and business-as-usual approaches to higher education, then this book is a must-read! It is a powerful portal into another world of possibilities.

Climate Justice and the University offers critical and inspirational insights on why and how all universities should commit to more radically transformative education for the betterment of people and the planet. It is an essential read for everyone who wants to reassess, reimagine, and co-create improved educational systems and trajectories to enhance climate justice for all.

...Presents a compelling case for a profound and necessary reorientation of the higher education sector through a climate justice lens. Jennie Stephens invites readers to consider how higher education institutions could be reclaimed to better prepare society for the future ahead and restructured for the common good—to support and accelerate the transformative social, political, and economic changes required to maintain a society with human well-being and planetary health at its core.

Through engrossing narrative and sharp analysis, Jennie Stephens mines her decades of experience amid the promise of higher education to advance a bold new vision of purpose in what she calls the climate justice university. In calling on higher education to live up to its best ecological self, Climate Justice and the University compels us to understand that courage is required. Stephens's brilliance shows us that courage has arrived.