Dr. Linda Westman

Linda is a Research Associate at the Urban Institute. Linda’s research focuses on environmental politics, including dimensions such as urban climate governance, transformations, and justice. She currently manages a work package of the ERC-funded project LO-ACT (https://www.loactproject.com/), which examines urban climate imaginaries in international policy and climate innovation in ordinary cities in the Global South.

Together with Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda recently published Urban sustainability and justice: Just sustainabilities and environmental planning (ZEB Books), which examines sustainability and justice in cities with an emphasis on postcolonial and feminist scholarship.