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How the environmental justice movement transforms our world
It had cost them 22 years of resistance, 100 days of street mobilisation and 13 deaths from police fire. But on 28 May, a very controversial copper plant in India …
Greenpeace declares victory as Belgian bank KBC ends its coal investments
On Thursday, the entrance to the headquarters of KBC bank in Brussels was taken by environmental activists concerned about the financial and climatic risks of coal investments in the Czech …
It’s not just drug dealers that need to worry about inspiration Trump took from Duterte
By Nick Meynen.The battle between autocratic leaders and the global movement for environmental justice heats up.Killing drug dealers through the courts, as US President Donald Trump has just proposed, is …
ISEE conference, Puebla, Mexico, September 2018. Call for papers on the special session(s): Geographies of Environmental (in)Justice
By Sofia Avila and Joan Martínez-Alier (EnvJustice-ICTA-UAB). Over the last decades, movements asking for Environmental Justice have multiplied throughout the world. The spatial and symbolic expansion of these struggles is expressed …
EnvJustice congratulates Hali Healy on her PhD thesis “The Political Ecology of Transdisciplinary Research: From Co-optation to Unintended Consequences?”
By Joan Martinez-Alier Hali Healy started to work from London with the ICTA UAB in 2008. In 2013 she was co-editor of our collective book from the CEECEC project, “Ecological …
A Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice
Making sense by democracy, non-violence, and convivialityJune 24th – July 6th July 2018Barcelona (Spain)/Cerbère (France)The world we see today around us seems increasingly reactionary and conservative. The rise of right …
Vacancy: CSC/UAB Joint Scholarships for PhD Study
Vacancy announcement is in Chinese and English:国家留学基金委/西班牙巴塞罗那自治大学联合资助攻读学位博士研究生招生公告（CSC/UAB Joint Scholarships for PhD Study） 一、招生信息：Doctoral ProgramEnvironmental Science and Technology Department/InstituteInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)Research line of …
Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework
Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? A new paper from Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria and Joan Martínez-Alier addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, …
Environment, Pollution and Health – is China different?
By Mariko Karlsson. If “cancer villages” and pollution related deaths are common in China, it’s not due to ignorance – but due to the lack of power. Political ecologists at …
Blockadia map reveals global scale of anti-fossil fuel movement
By Alice Owen and Daria Rivin.As world leaders were flying out to Germany to negotiate climate action at COP23, activists begin blockading a nearby coal mine as part of a …
