Praxis, Ethics & Outcomes From Doing Science and Human Rights in a Nuclear World

Barbara Rose Johnston discusses the linkages between the environment and human rights. She has served as a scientific advisor in a number of international, national, and community-based forums, including the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal, where her research on the biomedical, psychosocial, cultural, and environmental impacts of the United States nuclear weapons testing program and the history and consequences of a classified human radiation experimentation program informed tribunal proceedings, supported judgments, and prompted a subsequent United Nations Human Rights Council investigation. An award-winning author, she has published definitive works that shape the interdisciplinary field of political ecology and demonstrate the power of a science and human rights approach in action-research.