A GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: The EJAtlas

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Peer reviewed articles (58)

Understanding activist perceptions of environmental justice success in mining resistance movements

Author(s): Begüm Özkaynak, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos, Burçay Erus
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(1), 2021, Page(s) 413-422, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2020.12.008

Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts

Author(s): Antonio Bontempi, Daniela Del Bene, Louisa Jane Di Felice
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2021, ISSN 0167-4544
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04946-6

Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects

Author(s): Leah Temper, Sofia Avila, Daniela Del Bene, Jennifer Gobby, Nicolas Kosoy, Philippe Le Billon, Joan Martinez-Alier, Patricia Perkins, Brototi Roy, Arnim Scheidel, Mariana Walter
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, 15/12, 2020, Page(s) 123004, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc197

Is there a global environmental justice movement?

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier, Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel
Published in: Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(3), 2016, Page(s) 731-755, ISSN 0306-6150
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2016.1141198

Nuclear supply chain and environmental justice struggles in Soviet and Post-Soviet countries

Author(s): Ksenija Hanacek, Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Post-Communist Economies, 2021, ISSN 1463-1377
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2021.1943917

(Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico

Author(s): Sofia Avila, Yannick Deniau, Alevgul H Sorman, James McCarthy
Published in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2021, ISSN 2514-8494
Publisher: SAGE journals
DOI: 10.1177/25148486211060657

Gendered geographies of violence: a multiple case study analysis of murdered women environmental defenders

Author(s): Dalena Tran, Joan Martinez-Alier, Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorria
Published in: Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1), 2020, Page(s) 1189-1212, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
DOI: 10.2458/v27i1.23760

Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt

Author(s): Alf Hornborg, Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Journal of Political Ecology, 23(1), 2016, Page(s) 328-333, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
DOI: 10.2458/v23i1.20220

"""Garbage is Gold”: Waste-based Commodity Frontiers, Modes of Valorization and Ecological Distribution Conflicts"

Author(s): Seth Schindler, Federico Demaria
Published in: CAPITALISM NATURE SOCIALISM, 2019, ISSN 1045-5752
Publisher: Guilford Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2019.1694553

On thin ice - The Arctic commodity extraction frontier and environmental conflicts

Author(s): Ksenija Hanaček, Markus Kröger, Arnim Scheidel, Facundo Rojas, Joan Martínez Alier
Published in: Ecological economics, 191, 2022, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107247

Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Local Environment, 2, 2021, ISSN 1354-9839
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1983795

The role of working-class communities and the slow violence of toxic pollution in environmental health conflicts: a global perspective

Author(s): Grettel Navas, Giacomo D'Alisa, Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Global environmental change, 73, 2022, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102474

Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

Author(s): Brototi Roy, Anke Schaffartzik
Published in: Ecological Economics, 180, 2021, Page(s) 106871, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106871

Geographies of degrowth : nowtopias, resurgences and the decolonization of imaginaries and places

Author(s): Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis, Karen Bakker
Published in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2019, Page(s) 431-450, ISSN 2514-8486
Publisher: Sage journals
DOI: 10.1177/2514848619869689

Learning and Teaching Through the Online Environmental Justice Atlas: From Empowering Activists to Motivating Students

Author(s): Mariana Walter, Lena Weber, Leah Temper
Published in: New directions for Teaching and Learning, 161, 2020, Page(s) 101-121, ISSN 1536-0768
Publisher: wiley
DOI: 10.1002/tl.20376

Blocking Pipelines, Unsettling Environmental Justice: From Rights of Nature to Responsibility to Territory

Author(s): Leah Temper
Published in: Local Environment, 24, 2019, ISSN 1354-9839
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2018.1536698

A comparative study of women environmental defenders’ antiviolent success strategies

Author(s): Dalena Tran
Published in: Geoforum, 126, 2021, Page(s) 126-138, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.024

Mining struggles in Argentina. The keys of a successful story of mobilisation

Author(s): Mariana Walter, Lucrecia Wagner
Published in: Extractive Industries and Society, 8 (4), 2021, Page(s) 100940, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100940

A global environmental justice movement: mapping ecological distributionconflicts

Author(s): Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Disjuntiva-Crítica de les Ciències Socials, 2020, Page(s) 83-128, ISSN 2659-7071
Publisher: University of Alicante
DOI: 10.14198/disjuntiva2020.1.2.6

Conceptualizing sand extractivism: Deconstructing an emerging resource frontier

Author(s): Arpita Bisht
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(2), 2021, Page(s) 100904, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100904

Community mining consultations in Latin America (2002–2012): The contested emergence of a hybrid institution for participation

Author(s): Mariana Walter, Leire Urkidi
Published in: Geoforum, 84, 2017, Page(s) 265-279, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.09.007

‘If there's no evidence, there's no victim’: undone science and political organisation in marginalising women as victims of DBCP in Nicaragua

Author(s): Grettel Navas
Published in: The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022, ISSN 0306-6150
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.2024517

Mapping ecological distribution conflicts: The EJAtlas

Author(s): Joan Martinez Alier
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(4), 2021, Page(s) 100883, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.02.003

Contesting energy transitions: wind power and conflicts in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Author(s): Sofia Avila-Calero
Published in: Journal of Political Ecology, 24/1, 2017, Page(s) 992, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
DOI: 10.2458/v24i1.20979

Discursive Synergies for a ‘Great Transformation’ Towards Sustainability: Pragmatic Contributions to a Necessary Dialogue Between Human Development, Degrowth, and Buen Vivir

Author(s): Adrián E. Beling, Julien Vanhulst, Federico Demaria, Violeta Rabi, Ana E. Carballo, Jérôme Pelenc
Published in: Ecological Economics, 144, 2018, Page(s) 304-313, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.08.025

Violence and visibility in oil palm and sugarcane conflicts: the case of Polochic Valley, Guatemala

Author(s): Sara Mingorría
Published in: The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2017, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0306-6150
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2017.1293046

The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: paths to the pluriverse

Author(s): Federico Demaria, Ashish Kothari
Published in: Third World Quarterly, 38/12, 2017, Page(s) 2588-2599, ISSN 0143-6597
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1350821

Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework

Author(s): Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2018, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0519-0

Ecological distribution conflicts and sustainability: lessons from the post-socialist European semi-periphery

Author(s): Jovanka Špirić
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2018, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0505-6

Trends in social metabolism and environmental conflicts in four Andean countries from 1970 to 2013

Author(s): Mario Pérez-Rincón, Julieth Vargas-Morales, Zulma Crespo-Marín
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2018, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0510-9

The map of conflicts related to environmental injustice and health in Brazil

Author(s): Diogo Ferreira da Rocha, Marcelo Firpo Porto, Tania Pacheco, Jean Pierre Leroy
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2018, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0494-5

‘We have a right to breathe clean air’: the emerging environmental justice movement against waste incineration in cement kilns in Spain

Author(s): Amaranta Herrero, Mariel Vilella
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2018, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-017-0473-x

The price of an apology: justice, compensation and rectification

Author(s): John O’Neill
Published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41/4, 2017, Page(s) 1043-1059, ISSN 0309-166X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bew047

Valuation Languages Along the Coal Chain From Colombia to the Netherlands and to Turkey

Author(s): Andrea Cardoso
Published in: Ecological Economics, 146, 2018, Page(s) 44-59, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.09.012

Anthropocene: Victims, Narrators, and Revolutionaries

Author(s): Marco Armiero, Massimo De Angelis
Published in: South Atlantic Quarterly, 116/2, 2017, Page(s) 345-362, ISSN 0038-2876
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-3829445

Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt

Author(s): Alf Hornborg, Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Journal of Political Ecology, 2016, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology

Changing social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India and South America

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Leah Temper and Mariana Walter
Published in: Journal of Political Ecology, 2016, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology

Commercial and biophysical deficits in South America, 1990–2013

Author(s): Pablo Samaniego, María Cristina Vallejo, Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Ecological Economics, 133, 2017, Page(s) 62-73, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.11.012

Network effects in environmental justice struggles: An investigation of conflicts between mining companies and civil society organizations from a network perspective

Author(s): Cem Iskender Aydin, Begum Ozkaynak, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos, Taylan Yenilmez
Published in: PLOS ONE, 12/7, 2017, Page(s) e0180494, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180494

Health as dignity: political ecology, epistemology and challenges to environmental justice movements

Author(s): Marcelo Firpo Porto, Diogo Rocha Ferreira, Renan Finamore
Published in: Journal of Political Ecology, 24/1, 2017, Page(s) 110, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
DOI: 10.2458/v24i1.20786

More dams, more violence? A global analysis on resistances and repression around conflictive dams through co-produced knowledge

Author(s): Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper
Published in: Sustainability Science, 13/3, 2018, Page(s) 617-633, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-018-0558-1

Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts

Author(s): Sofia Avila
Published in: Sustainability Science, 13/3, 2018, Page(s) 599-616, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-018-0547-4

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability

Author(s): Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Sustainability Science, 13/3, 2018, Page(s) 573-584, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-018-0563-4

Violence in environmental conflicts: the need for a multidimensional approach

Author(s): Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorria, Bernardo Aguilar-González
Published in: Sustainability Science, 13/3, 2018, Page(s) 649-660, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-018-0551-8

Mapping and Analyzing Ecological Distribution Conflicts in Andean Countries

Author(s): Mario Pérez-Rincón, Julieth Vargas-Morales, Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Ecological Economics, 157, 2019, Page(s) 80-91, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.004

Socio-ecological distribution conflicts in the mining sector in Guatemala (2005–2013): Deep rooted injustice and weak environmental governance

Author(s): Bernardo Aguilar-González, Grettel Navas, Carole Brun, Andrea Aguilar-Umaña, Paloma Cerdán
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 5/3, 2018, Page(s) 240-254, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2018.02.002

Ecological distribution conflicts in India : some insights on the role of violence

Author(s): Martínez Alier, Joan; Roy, Brototi
Published in: Ecology, Economy and Society - The INSEE Journal, Vol. 2, issue 1 (Jan. 2019) , p. 27-30, ISSN 2581-6152, 9, 2019, Page(s) 27-30, ISSN 2581-6152
Publisher: INSEE

Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South

Author(s): Giuseppina Siciliano, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Juan Liu, Frauke Urban
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 37, 2019, Page(s) 20-27, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.003

A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements

Author(s): Arnim Scheidel, Anke Schaffartzik
Published in: Ecological Economics, 161, 2019, Page(s) 330-333, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.023

Environmental justice movements in India : an analysis of the multiple manifestations of violence

Author(s): Brototi Roy, Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Ecology, economy and society–the INSEE Journal, 2019, ISSN 2581-6152
Publisher: Springer

Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements

Author(s): Bengi Akbulut, Federico Demaria, Julien-François Gerber, Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Ecological Economics, 165, 2019, Page(s) 106418, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106418

Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions

Author(s): Mary Menton, Carlos Larrea, Sara Latorre, Joan Martinez-Alier, Mika Peck, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter
Published in: Sustainability Science, 15/6, 2020, Page(s) 1621-1636, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00789-8

Commons grabbing and agribusiness: Violence, resistance and social mobilization

Author(s): Jampel Dell'Angelo, Grettel Navas, Marga Witteman, Giacomo D'Alisa, Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper
Published in: Ecological Economics, 184, 2021, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107004

‘We are the oceans, we are the people!’: fisher people’s struggles for blue justice

Author(s): Irmak Ertör
Published in: The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2021, ISSN 0306-6150
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1999932

Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

Author(s): Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorría, Federico Demaria, Sofía Avila, Brototi Roy, Irmak Ertör, Leah Temper, Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Global Environmental Change, 63, 2020, Page(s) 102104, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102104

Expansion Involving Agrarian Communities in Central Mexico

Author(s): Victoria Ruiz Rincon, Joan Martinez Alier, Sara Mingorría
Published in: Sustaintability, 11(23), 2019, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su11236545

Environmental justice and corporate social irresponsibility: the case of the mining company Vale S.A

Author(s): Beatriz Macchione Saes, Daniela Del Bene, Raquel Neyra, Lucrecia Wagner, Joan Martínez-Alier
Published in: Revista Ambiente e Sociedade, 24, 2021, ISSN 1414-753X
Publisher: Nucleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais
DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20210014vu2021l4id

Realities beyond reporting: women environmental defenders in South Africa

Author(s): Dalena, Tran
Published in: Feminist Media Studies, 2022, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1468-0777
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2045335

Thesis dissertations (5)

Decarbonizing the South : space, justice and politics at the renewable energy frontiers

Author(s): Sofia Avila Calero
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Koyla Kahini. The Political Ecology of Coal in India

Author(s): Brottoti Roy
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona

Violence(s) and social resistance in a toxic world : a multiscale analysis of environmental health justice struggles

Author(s): Grettel Navas
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Hydropower and ecological conflicts : from resistance to transformations

Author(s): Daniela DelBene
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Social metabolism, cost-shifting and conflicts. The struggles and services of informal waste recyclers in India.

Author(s): Federico Demaria
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Book chapters (8)

Environment, Labour and Health: The Ecological-Social Debts of China’s Economic Development,

Author(s): Juan Liu
Published in: Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies, 2021, ISSN 978-3-030-71909-8978-3-030-71908-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71909-8

Global Environmental Justice and the Environmentalism of the Poor.

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, 2016, ISBN 9780-199685271
Publisher: Oxford University Press

A guide to environmental justice movements and the language of ecological distribution conflicts.

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society, 2017, ISBN 9781-138931510
Publisher: Routledge

Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India and Latin America.

Author(s): Martinez-Alier, J., Temper, L., Walter, M., Demaria, F.
Published in: Green Economy Reader. Lectures in Ecological Economics and Sustainability., 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-38919-6
Publisher: Springer

(2017): ‘Degrowth’ – vom aktivistischen Slogan zur sozialen Bewegung. In: Peters, Stefan / Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen (eds.). Frankfurt (Main): Campus, 223-246.

Author(s): Demaria, F., Schneider, F., Sekulova, F., Martínez-Alier, J.
Published in: Umwelt und Entwicklung in globaler Perspektive: Resourcen – Konflikte – Degrowth., 2017, ISBN 9783-593505121
Publisher: Campus

Ecological Distribution Conflicts and the Vocabulary of Environmental Justice

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Ecology, Economy and Society, 2018, Page(s) 187-204, ISBN 978-981-10-5674-1
Publisher: Springer

Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India and Latin America

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Federico Demaria
Published in: Green Economy Reader - Lectures in Ecological Economics and Sustainability, 6, 2017, Page(s) 311-332, ISBN 978-3-319-38917-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38919-6_14

Ecological Distribution Conflicts and the Vocabulary of Environmental Justice

Author(s): Joan Martinez-Alier
Published in: Ecology, Economy and Society - Essays in Honour of Kanchan Chopra, 2018, Page(s) 187-204, ISBN 978-981-10-5674-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5675-8_11

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

"Reply to Orihuela et al's ""Extractivism of the poor"""

Author(s): Joan Martínez Alier, Raquel Neyra, Mario Pérez Rincón
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 101065, 2022, ISSN 2214-7918
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2022.101065