Nathan Badry

Nathan Badry

Doctoral Candidate
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University

My work is focused on environmental governance. Governance can be conceptualised in a variety of different ways, but fundamentally governance is about representation. How are decisions made and who gets to make them? How are power and responsibility exercised? Which citizens or stakeholders have a say, and which are silenced? Environmental justice is a lens that can be used to help unpack these questions, and can be especially important in research settings where these kinds of questions do not always get the attention they deserve. Much of my work is conducted in partnership with indigenous peoples in Canada, many of whom have been and continue to be subject to disproportionate levels of environmental injustice. Environmental justice helps keep me from losing sight of the really important questions.