Resources
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
By Bengi Abkulut, Federico Demaria, Julien-François Gerber, Joan MartÃnez-Alier.AbstractEnvironmental destructions, overconsumption and overdevelopment are felt by an increasing number of people. Voices for ‘prosperity without growth’ have strengthened and environmental conflicts …
Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South
By Giuseppina Siciliano, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Juan Liu, Frauke Urban. AbstractChinese investments in large hydropower dams have rapidly increased all over the world in the last 20 years. …
Hydropower and Ecological Conflicts. From resistance to transformations
By: Daniela Del Bene.Supervisors: Prof. Joan MartÃnez Alier, Dr. Beatriz RodrÃguez Labajos. Tutor: Prof. Louis LemkowAbstract Hydropower is undergoing a new construction boom globally and is increasingly promoted as a …
Social metabolism, cost-shifting and conflicts. The struggles and services of informal waste recyclers in India
By: Federico Demaria. Supervisors: Dr. Giorgos Kallis, Dr. Joan Martinez Alier, Dr. Giuseppe Munda AbstractThis thesis contributes to our understanding of social metabolism, and more precisely waste in social metabolism. …
Cambios en el metabolismo social y la generación de conflictos socioambientales en el Perú
By: Neyra Soupplet, RaquelSupervisors: Bergua Amores, Jose Angel (dir.), Martìnez Alier, Joan (dir.) Abstract Los numerosos conflictos socio ambientales que vive el Perú son particularmente sangrientos y violentos. Para …
A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements
By Arnim Scheidel and Anke Schaffartzik.AbstractDegrowth and environmental justice movements share overarching aims of sustainability and justice and pursue them through radical social change and resistances. Both movements are diverse …
Environmental Justice Movements in India: An analysis of the multiple manifestations of violence.
By Brototi Roy and Joan Martinez-Alier.AbstractWith each passing year, defending land and water, livelihoods and cultures appears to become more violent. Against the alarming number of murders of environmental activists …
Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India. Some Insights on the Role of Violence
By Joan Martinez-Alier and Brototi Roy.The term Ecological Distribution Conflicts(EDCs) was coined about 20 years ago by ecological economists (Martinez-Alier and O‟Connor 1996) to describe social conflicts born from the …
A ‘political fungology’ of China’s booming banana sector
By Robin Thiers, Juan Liu, Grettel Navas, Arnim Scheidel, Haifei MouAbstractChina’s commercial Cavendish banana production revolves around the mobilization of land, capital and labour, as well as the management of …
Political ecology in China
In past times, China’s presence in the world did not have the current environmental impact. Nowadays, China extracts 4,000 million tons of coal per year, three tons per person. This …
