Skip to Main content

Resources

New Book “Contested Waste: Environmental conflicts and waste picker resistance in the Global South”

New book by Federico Demaria, Daniele Vico, Lucía Fernández Gabard to be out in July 2025 Pre-order from July 4th HERE. Description Contested Waste’ examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the …

NEW: “From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa”

Article by Roberto Cantoni, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Elia Apostolopoulou, Julien-François Gerber, Patrick Bond, Joan Martinez-Alier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107015 Accessible at the Journal of World Development, Volume 193. Abstract Africa stands out as the continent where the legacies of colonialism and the ongoing dynamics of neo- and post-colonialism …

NEW: “Driving ecologically unequal exchange: A global analysis of multinational corporations’ role in environmental conflicts”

By Marcel Llavero-Pasquina Available at the Journal of Global Environmental Change, Volume 92 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103006 Abstract Multinational corporations are being confronted by activists and scholars over their involvement in environmental conflicts and human rights violations. …

NEW: “Environmentalism of the Poor and Climate Action” 

ARTICLE by Joan Martínez-Alier, Balzan prize 2020 and Holberg prize 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197762097.013.0015 Get access to the article HERE. Abstract For over 100 years, there have been protests against coal mining for its displacement …

New Article: “Place-based leadership and environmental conflicts in the European Union”

Article by Ignazio Cabras, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Katia Picaud-Bello & Gabriel Weber Open Access at Regional Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2486644 ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between place-based leadership and environmental conflicts. Focusing on France, we examine the …

“Solar Capitalism: Accumulation Strategies and Socio-Ecological Futures” by Avila-Calero

Article by Sofia Avila-Calero. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01662-2 Abstract This overview article proposes the concept of Solar Capitalism to contribute to the emerging political economies and ecologies of energy transition. Solar Capitalism is here defined as …

Zijin: A Growing Metal Mining Chinese Transnational Firm

By Joan Martinez-Alier and Marcel Llavero-Pasquina Par of the Commodity Frontiers Journal, N. 7, free acces HERE. Abstract This article follows on previous EJAtlas work on the Vale company, Impregilo-Salini, and Total Energies, …

Book Chapter: “Contested airport lands in the Global South”

By Sneha Sharma, Irit Ittner, Isaac Khambule, Sara Mingorría, Hanna Geschewski Chapter from the book “Contested Airport Land” ABSTRACT With the acceleration of airport construction and expansion in low- and middle-income countries, a multi-disciplinary scholarship that relates …

The Politics of ‘Green’ Extraction Frontiers: Mapping Metals and Mineral Mining Conflicts Related to the Energy Transition in the Americas

Article by Mariana Walter, Yannick Deniau, and Viviana Herrera Vargas DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205241305963 Abstract We document how the extraction of metals and minerals, deemed critical for green growth and its energy transition, is expanding and being resisted in the …

Book Chapter: “Unburnable Coal and Unlabelled Climate Activism in China”

By Bowen Gu and Juan Liu Chapter found at the book The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism ABSTRACT China burns half of the coal produced in the world. As of 2022, coal …


Archive