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Environmentalism under Fire
By Burag Gurden. Similar writings by Burag Gurden have recently been published in the Ecologist and several other blogs and media. This article refers to all writings by the same …
The EnvJustice project advisory board
A five-year ERC Advanced Grant to analyze the Global Environmental Justice Movement was awarded in March 2016 to Joan Martinez-Alier, ICTA-UAB. The project started in June 2016, a website was …
Outstanding Participation of EnvJustice team in the 12th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics in Budapest
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and especially the researchers from the EnvJustice project are playing an important role in the 12th Conference of the European Society for …
Call for papers: Special issue on Degrowth and Environmental justice
Proposal submission deadline: 10th July 2017 Guest editors: Bengi Akbulut (1), Federico Demaria (2), Julien-François Gerber (3), Joan Martínez-Alier (2)1 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada2 Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, …
Poland’s primeval forest is under serious attack
By Nick Meynen. Polish activists have this week chained themselves up to machines used to cut a 9000-year-old forest in a bid to stop the destruction of trees for what …
Is sand the new oil? The global battle for sand is getting ugly
[LONGREAD]By Nick Meynen. Dubai is a fairytale world. Back in 1995 a jeep brought me to a region where you do not want to run out of fuel: Rub’ al …
Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene
By Grettel Navas. On 24 and 25 April 2017, the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (Colorado State University) held a most fruitful “Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene” conference. It …
Niyamgiri hills defender awarded with Goldman Environmental Prize
By Nick Meynen. Two men coming all the way from the Indian jungle admired the most sacred site of London: St. Paul’s Cathedral. They checked the rock quality, deemed it perfect …
To end ecocide we must end femicide
By Camila Rolando Mazzuca & Brototi Roy. March 8 is World Women Day, but 3 March is another good moment to reflect on the role of women in society. On …
The true cost of shrimp
By Brototi Roy. Global trade of the luxury commodity that shrimp is ignores the true human and environmental impact.Watching villagers standing waist deep in the brackish water of the Sundarbans …
