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New Research: Airport projects responsible for human rights violations and ecological destruction around the world
Interactive map documents 80 cases of airport-related injustices and resistance Feature Map: https://ejatlas.org/featured/airport-conflict-around-the-world All across the globe airport projects are generating serious conflicts and social and environmental impacts: land acquisition, displacement of …
Awful Cabo Delgado’s Attacks: exposing Mozambique’s Gas Development Project
Resources to understand the current situation: Awful attacks in Palma, Cabo Delgado province (Mozambique) that began the 24th of March, exposed failure for Total’s onshore development of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Read …
U.S. Lawyer Steven Donziger Speaks from House Arrest in NYC After Suing Chevron for Amazon Oil Spills
Full original interview available at Democracy Now! Interview by Amy Goodman. 10 years ago, Ecuador’s Supreme Court ordered Chevron to pay $18 billion on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian Indigenous people. The oil …
Mapping ecological distribution conflicts: The EJAtlas
By Joan Martinez-Alier Abstract This article describes the origins of the terms “environmental justice” and “environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous” since the 1980s. In 2012 the collection of “ecological distribution …
Issues Of The Environment: Commemorating 30 Years Of The Environmental Justice Movement
Original article available at WEMU. By DAVID FAIR • FEB 17, 2021 The concept of environmental justice can be traced back to the 1970’s. But, it wasn’t until the 1990’s when themovement …
Post-doctoral call to join EJ Team at ICTA-UAB
Open CallBEATRIU DE PINOS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP at ICTA-UABICTA-UAB would like to invite post-doctoral researchers to apply to the Beatriu de Pinós programme (BP 2020) of the Catalan Agency for Management of …
EnvJustice condemns recent arrest of young climate activist Disha Ravi by Indian authorities
The Indian government is eroding the democratic rights of its citizens and undermining the ecological and social concerns of its people.In a show of force, the Delhi police unjustifiably put …
Losing Ground: A series of interviews on conservation conflicts in India
In this series of 3 interviews with The Bastion, our researcher Eleonora Fanari with the Kalpavrisk team – India, discuss their findings in our most recent thematic map. The interviews touch …
Gendered geographies of violence: a multiple case study analysis of murdered women environmental defenders
By Dalena Le Tran, Joan Martinez-Alier, Grettel Navas, Sara MingorriaAbstractThis study illustrates how, despite the diversity of women environmental defenders and their movements around the world, there are near-universal patterns …
Seven main collective articles from the EJAtlas & EnvJustice project
1) Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas, by L Temper, D Del Bene, J Martinez-Alier. 2015. Journal of Political Ecology 22 (1), 255-278. https://doi.org/10.2458/v22i1.211082) Is …
