Dr Mike Joy is a senior lecturer at Massey University's Institute of Agriculture and Environment where he researches and teaches in ecology and environmental science. He is the inaugural recipient in 2017 of the universities' Critic and Conscience of Society Award for his environmental advocacy.
It was a massive privilege last month to join the conference Environmental Justice 2017 - Looking Back, Looking Forward, hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, where Mike gave a great talk about environmental injustice and freshwater.
This post links to the follow-on blog series. Recommended.
My report published today, with thanks to the New Zealand Law Foundation, looks at environmental law and injustice in Aotearoa through a lens of environmental justice. It’s called Finding Ecological Justice in New Zealand.
Mike received the inaugural Critic and Conscience of Society Award for his work in drawing attention to the issue of water quality, and was interviewed by Wallace Chapman on Sunday Morning here.
Five things you can do in five minutes to help.
