dr. A.K. Poole (Alexandria)

My primary research interests are developing urban environmental ethics, comparative environmental philosophy, and sustainability discourse at the intersection of technology and values. I incorporate post-colonial, environmental ethics, critical race theory and feminist critiques into my teaching and research.

Keywords: environmental ethics, urban sustainability, biocultural conservation, applied ethics, nature-based solutions

Selected Publications:

Poole, Alexandria K. "Education as a driver of extinction of experience or conservation of biocultural heritage." In Field Environmental Philosophy: Education for Biocultural Conservation, pp. 247-262. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-23368-5_15 

Tauro, A., Ojeda, J., Caviness, T., Moses, K.P., Moreno-Terrazas, R., Wright, T., Zhu, D., Poole, A.K., Massardo, F. and Rozzi, R., 2021. Field environmental philosophy: a biocultural ethic approach to education and ecotourism for sustainability. Sustainability, 13(8) https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084526

Rozzi, R., Massardo, F. and Poole, A., The “3Hs”(Habitats, Habits, co-in-Habitants) of the Biocultural Ethic: A “philosophical lens” to address global changes in the Anthropocene. Global Changes: Ethics, Politics and Environment in the Contemporary Technological World, 2020. pp.153-170.

Poole, A. “Environmental Philosophy and the City,” Meagher, Sharon M., Samantha Noll, and Joseph S. Biehl. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City. Routledge, 2019. pp. 335-352.

Poole, A. “Where is Goal #18? The Need for Biocultural Heritage within the UN Sustainable Development Goals,” Environmental Values, Volume 27, Number 1, February 2018, pp. 55-80(26)

Website: https://www.alexandriakpoole.com/

Expertise

• Social Sciences

  • Ecological Research
  • Science and Society
  • USA
  • Education
  • Environmental Education
  • Chile

• Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Environmental Ethics
  • Cultural Diversity

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Programme Coordinator for new minor in Environmental Values and Sustainable Transformations (EVST)

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Courses academic year 2026/2027

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

RuRban Futures Collective

Resonate

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Resonate

Resilience through Nature-Based Therapies

RESONATE: Building individual and community resilience through nature-based therapies. RESONATE is a Horizon Europe project that will bring together a consortium of world leaders in nature-based therapy (NbT) research, practice, policy, and innovation with stakeholders in the health, environmental, economic, and societal sectors. The 4-year project started in June 2023. The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizons Europe Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101081420 and co-funded by the UK Research and Innovation grant award No. 10063874. 

Dr. Alexandria K. Poole serves as Environmental Ethicist on the International Expert Advisory Board

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University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4111
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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