Ravelijn

dr. M. Bourban (Michel)

Assistant Professor
BMS-TPS-PHIL
Ravelijn 4206
m.bourban@utwente.nl
+31534891947
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My research line, “Extending Justice and Citizenship”, aims at clarifying the demands of justice and citizenship in our aera of global environmental changes. It also investigates how these demands can guide just institutional reforms, steer responsible technological innovation, and encourage pro-environmental behaviour.

I am the PI of the Planetary Justice and Energy Transition Technologies project, which strengthens the normative foundations of the planetary justice framework and applies this framework to the energy transition. I am also co-leading a work package in the Horizon Re4Green project, which provides a framework for research and innovation to address overlapping issues in environmental ethics, climate ethics, and research ethics in the context of the European Green Deal. I am also co-coordinator of the Nature and Sustainability research line of the NWO ESDiT project, which develops a comprehensive philosophical understanding of technologies that are socially and conceptually disruptive.

Personal website: https://www.michelbourban.com/

Recent publications:

- Bourban, Michel (2025) “Rethinking Climate Justice: Toward Ecological Limitarianism”, Ethics, Policy & Environment (online first): 1–18.

- Bourban, Michel. 2025. "Taking Population Seriously in the IPAT Equation: Ethical and Political Implications of Planetary Boundaries", in Ruuska, Toni and Nyfors, Tina (eds.), Sufficiency: From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness, Leiden/Boston: Brill: 197–225 

- Bourban, Michel (2024) "Eco-Anxiety: A Philosophical Approach", in Allegrante, John P., Hoinkes, Ulrich, Schapira, Michael I. and Struve, Karen  (eds.), Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 55–69.

- Bourban, Michel (2023) "Mitigation Duties", in Pellegrino, Gianfranco and Di Paola, Marcello (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, Cham: Springer: 1–39.

- Bourban, Michel (2023) "Eco-Anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness", in Kassiola, Joel J. and Luke, Timothy W. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: 65–88.

Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Climate
    • Nationality
    • Climate Change
    • Approach
    • Adaptation
    • Theory

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

    • Justice
    • Finance

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Publications

2025

Taking Population Seriously in the IPAT Equation: Ethical and Political Implications of Planetary Boundaries (2025)In Sufficiency: From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness (pp. 197–225) (International Comparative Social Studies; Vol. 62). Brill. Bourban, M.https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004746404_011Rethinking Climate Justice: Toward Ecological Limitarianism (2025)Ethics, Policy and Environment (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Bourban, M.https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2025.2574219Innovation Ethics (2025)In Handbook of Innovation - Perspectives from the Social Sciences (pp. 1-20). Springer. Bourban, M. & Rochel, J.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25143-6_17-1Justice climatique (2025)l'Encyclopédie philosophique. Bourban, M., André, P. & Voiron, I.https://encyclo-philo.fr/item/1751

2024

Eco-Anxiety: A Philosophical Approach (2024)In Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs (pp. 55-69). Johns Hopkins University Press. Bourban, M.

2023

Une démocratie libérale peut-elle faire face au changement climatique ? Penser la question écologique dans un cadre rawlsien (2023)Studia Philosophica, 82, 97–109. Bourban, M. & Desmons, O.https://doi.org/10.24894/StPh-fr.2023.82008Climate Ethics (2023)In Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans Between Heritage and Future (pp. 551–556). Springer. Bourban, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_87Ecological Citizenship (2023)In Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans Between Heritage and Future (pp. 1023–1027). Springer. Bourban, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_168Mitigation Duties (2023)In Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change (pp. 1-39) (Handbooks in Philosophy book series). Springer. Bourban, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16960-2_52-1Ecological cosmopolitan citizenship (2023)Future Humanities, 1(1), 1-21. Bourban, M.https://doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.5

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Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4206
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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