The main overall achievements are:
a) The recruitment of a scientific team with 5 doctoral students (3 of whom financed by EnvJustice) and 6 post-docs (all of them financed by EnvJustice).
b) The increase in the number of new ecological distribution conflicts (EDCs) recorded in the EJAtlas (3550 in November 2021).
c) The scientific publications (more than 60) and conference papers by members of the EnvJustice.
d) The summer schools on Degrowth and Environmental Justice at ICTA UAB from 2017 to 2021 (See
https://summerschool.degrowth.org/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)).
e) The start of a Master Degree in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice in September 2018 (See
https://master.degrowth.org(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)).
f) The dissemination of the work of EnvJustice through participation in academic conferences on ecological economics, political ecology, environmental justice and degrowth (such as ESEE; LASA; POLLEN; ISEE and Degrowth); our webpage and other media in several languages, including regular columns in The Ecologist.
See also
http://envjustice.org/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)1) The Environmental Justice Atlas (EJ Atlas;
http://ejatlas.org/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie))
The EJAtlas is by November 2021 a large, purposive, expert-elicited sample of 3550 visible, previously reported EDCs from around the world collected and displayed on an open online digital platform, with expanding but still uneven geographical and thematic coverage (See Figure 2). In summary, the achievements of the EjAtlas include:
a) Total number of cases: from 1650 cases recorded in May 2016 (just before the EnvJustice project started on June 2016) to 3550 in November 2021, with new collaborations;
b) Technical development of the EJAtlas (e.g. new filter functions, improvement of cartographic and GIS tools);
c) Increasing user statistics (e.g. hits per day; see
http://ejatlas.org/)(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie);
d) Cases analyzed in academic papers (e.g. comparative analyses); e.g. Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview, by Scheidel et al 2020. Global Environmental Change, 63.
e) Three special issues: 1) ”The EJAtlas: Ecological Distribution Conflicts as Forces for Sustainability” (Sustainability Science; 2018); 2) “Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India” (Ecology, Economy and Society; 2019) and 3) "Degrowth and Environmental Justice" (Ecological Economics, 2019).
f) More than 7 Featured Maps (
https://www.ejatlas.org/featured(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). The lastest: “Mapping the mining impacts of the energy transition in the Americas" was launched in November 2021 with communities and NGOs. See:
https://www.ejatlas.org/featured/met_america(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)2) The vocabulary of the global movement for environmental justice. We have identified and collected slogans, iconography, cultural expressions from across the world on many languages.
3) The alliance between degrowth and the environmental justice movement. Different activities have taken place to explore this possible alliance: three summer schools, a special issue for the journal Ecological Economics, international degrowth conferences, knowledge transfer and policy-work.