Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange

Speaker: Dr. Kati Orru is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Sustainability at the University of Tartu. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions.

Title of the talk: Interactions of human and environmental well-being

Time: Thursday, 04 March 2021 at 14.15

Place: Virtual seminar in Zoom

Summary: The presentation gives an overview of the studies carried out by the environmental sociology team and partners. I give some insights to our studies on the human-environment interactions from the perspectives of health, social inclusion and safety. I focus on study results regarding challenges like climate crisis, energy crisis and air pollution from the historical as well as current perspectives.