with Professor Helen Kopnina, Northumbria University (UK) - Inaugural Haydn Washington Memorial Public Lecture
Join us for AELA's Inaugural 'Haydn Washington Lecture', honoring our dear friend and colleague, Haydn, who passed away in December 2022. To find out about the legacy of Haydn's ecological economics and earth ethics work please visit this website. Professor Kopnina is an internationally recognised researcher and writer based at Northumbria University. She collaborated with Haydn for many years. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion about the role of ethics within our economic systems.
PROFESSOR HELEN KOPNINA
Dr. Helen Kopnina (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2002) is employed at Northumbria University and leading the Sustainable Business program, integrating world-leading research with impactful teaching. Her research focuses on environmental education and links biodiversity to business. With over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 17 (co)authored or (co)edited books with international collaborators, she challenges traditional boundaries through an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to academic discourse, education, and corporate sustainability strategies. Her work, published in top-tier journals across education sciences natural sciences and business/management, has gained a growing influence, as shown by her current Scopus H-index of 51. Her research has influenced curricula and pedagogical strategies across institutions. Many of her highly cited publications focus on critiques and ways forward from Education for Sustainable Development Goals. Her research on environmental education, particularly in ecopedagogy and ecoliteracy, plays a very significant role in shaping her teaching and empowering graduates to work in highly skilled professions through transformative and inclusive experiential learning. She participates in scientific committees including the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Her wide networks and editorial work reflect her global impact on shaping sustainability education and research.
ABOUT EARTH ECONOMICS WEEK 2025
The current globalised economic system - driven by extractivism, expansion and material growth - is destroying the living world. Over the past 50 years, a range of important alternative economic systems have been proposed to replace 'neo-classical' or 'growth' economics - including Steady State, Doughnut, Wellbeing and Degrowth Economics. But what difference have they made? Are our economic systems changing? What approaches are working? Join us for a week of important discussions about our economic systems, the alternatives that are possible and what we can do to shift away from the extractivism that is destroying the living world.
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HOSTS OF EARTH ECONOMICS WEEK 2025
New Economy Network Australia (NENA), The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), and Future Dreaming Australia