Professor Schlosberg's general interests are in environmental politics and political theory.  He teaches courses on Environmental Political Thought, Environmental Movements, the relationship between Environmental Science and Politics, as well as Modern and Contemporary Political Thought.

His environmental research focuses mainly on environmental and climate justice, environmental democracy and participation, and the political theory, tactics, and organization of environmental and environmental justice movements; his theoretical research deals with issues of pluralization, difference, justice, and discursive democracy in contemporary theory and political life.

Professor Schlosberg has held visiting positions as a Lecturer in Political Theory at the London School of Economics (2000-01), a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Fellow in Social and Political Theory at the Australian National University (2003-04), and as Barron Visiting Professor in Environment and Humanities in the Princeton Environmental Institute and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University (Spring 2009). His work has also been supported by the National Science Foundation.

Current work includes the application of the capabilities approach to justice theory to conceptions and practices of ecological justice, indigenous environmental justice, and climate justice. Schlosberg is also co-editing, with John Dryzek and Richard Norgaard, the Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, to be published in 2011.