12:00pm Just sustainabilities: re-imagining e/quality, living within limits Julian Agyeman, Tufts University Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Speaker Information Julian Agyeman is an environmental social scientist whose expertise and current research interests are in the complex and embedded relations between humans and the environment, whether mediated by governmental institutions or social movements, and the effects of this on public policy and planning processes and outcomes, particularly in relation to notions of justice and equity. He is co-founder, and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal ‘Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.’ With over 150 publications, his recent books include 'Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class and Sustainability' (MIT Press 2011) ‘Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and Practice’ (Zed Books 2013) and Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities (Routledge 2014). Abstract In his keynote, Julian will first outline the concept of 'just sustainabilities' He will argue that integrating social needs and welfare, offers us a more ‘just,’ rounded, and equity-focused definition of sustainability and sustainable development, while not negating the very real environmental threats we face. He will define it as ‘the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems.’ He will then look at examples of just sustainabilities in practice in the real world focusing on ideas about 'fair shares' resource distribution globally; planning for intercultural cities; achieving wellbeing and happiness; the potential in the new sharing economy and finally the concept of 'spatial justice' and how it complements the more established concept of social justice.