Dr Haydn Washington

Dr. Haydn Washington is an adjunct lecturer at UNSW. He has a forty year history as an environmental scientist, writer and activist. He has a degree in ecology, a Masters of Science in eco-toxicology (heavy metal pollution), a Dip. Ed., and a Ph.D. 'The Wilderness Knot' in Social Ecology (2007). Haydn was worked in CSIRO, as Director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, as an environmental consultant, and as a Director of Sustainability in Local Government. He is the Co-Director of the NSW Chapter of the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy. Haydn has written several books on environmental issues, the most recent being ‘Demystifying Sustainability’ (2015), ‘A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature’ (2019), ‘What can I do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?’ (2020) and ‘Ecoreciprocity: Giving Back to Nature’ (2021). He is lead editor of ‘A Future Beyond Growth’ (2016), ‘Positive Steps to a Steady State Economy’ (2017) and ‘Ecological Economics: Solutions for the Future’ (2020). Haydn is also keenly interested in geodiversity, especially the pagoda rock formations of the western Blue Mountains.

Expertise and research interests:

• Environmental science
  
• Plant Ecology
• Climate change denial
• Wilderness conservation and philosophy
• Sense of wonder towards nature
• Human dependence on nature
• Sustainability
• Solving environmental problems
• Ecocentrism and ecological ethics