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A GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: The EJAtlas

Descrizione del progetto

Mappare l’ingiustizia ambientale a livello globale

I conflitti ambientali si stanno moltiplicando in tutto il mondo, una situazione che mette in evidenza l’urgente necessità di garantire giustizia dinanzi ai danni ecologici. In questo contesto, il progetto EnvJustice, finanziato dal CER, ha sviluppato l’Atlante della giustizia ambientale (EJAtlas, da Environmental Justice Atlas). Questo database globale, che ha già mappato oltre 1 500 conflitti e ha l’ambizioso programma di arrivare a 4 000 entro la fine del 2023, attinge alle conoscenze di attivisti e accademici per documentare dispute in oltre 100 diversi ambiti. Il documento illustra le risorse in gioco, gli attori coinvolti, gli impatti, le forme di mobilitazione e i risultati, adottando un approccio globale che consente di effettuare analisi volte a sviluppare una teoria generale dei conflitti di distribuzione ecologica. Inoltre, il progetto esplorerà l’efficacia delle proteste dal basso rispetto alle forme istituzionali di contestazione.

Obiettivo

"The Environmental Justice Atlas (www.ejatlas.org) is a global database built by us, drawing on activist and academic knowledge. It maps 1500 conflicts. To improve geographical and thematic coverage it will grow to 3000 by 2019. It systematizes conflicts across 100+ fields documenting the commodities at stake, the actors involved, impacts, forms of mobilizations and outcomes allowing analyses that will lead to a general theory of ecological distribution conflicts.
We shall research the links between changes in social metabolism and resource extraction conflicts at the “commodity frontiers”. Also other questions in political ecology and social movement theory such as the effectiveness of direct action by grassroots protesters compared to institutional forms of contention. Does the involvement of different actors, e.g. indigenous groups, relate to different conflict outcomes? How often does the IUCN ally itself to ""the environmentalism of the poor""? Do mobilizations and outcomes vary across sectors (mining, hydroelectric dams, waste incinerators) according to project differences in economic and biophysical dimensions, environmental and health risks? Are conflicts on point resources (mining, oil extraction) regularly different from conflicts in agriculture? Can we track networked resistances against Western companies, compared to those from China or other countries?
Resistance to environmental damage has brought into being many local and some international EJOs pushing for alternative social transformations. We shall study the Vocabulary of Environmental Justice they deploy: climate justice, water justice, food sovereignty, biopiracy, sacrifice zones, and other terms specific to countries: Chinese “cancer villages”, Indian “sand mafias”, Brazilian “green deserts” (eucalyptus plantations). Finally, are there signs of an alliance between the Global Environmental Justice Movement and the small European movement for “prosperity without growth”, décroissance, Post-Wachstum?"

Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Istituzione ospitante

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 910 811,00
Indirizzo
EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V
08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
Spagna

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Regione
Este Cataluña Barcelona
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 910 811,00

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