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China has a plan – Peak Coal and the new Silk Road

This Article is written by Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria and has been by the Ecologist on 25th July.China’s contribution to global climate change will increase from oil and …

Arnim Scheidel

Arnim is a Ramón y Cajal senior research fellow at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain, and Adjunct Professor at the College of …

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 …

Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt. Introduction to the special section. J. of Political Ecology,

 By Alf Hornborg and J. Martinez-Alier.AbstractThis article introduces a Special Section on Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), an underlying source of most of the environmental distribution conflicts in our time. The …

Changing social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India and South America

By Joan Martinez-Alier, F. Demaria, Leah Temper, M. WalterAbstractFirstly, we present some environmental conflicts gathered in 2016 in the EJAtlas, selecting a few that have implied deaths of environmental defenders …

Commercial and biophysical deficits in South America, 1990–2013

By P. Samaniego, M.C. Vallejo, J. Martinez-AlierAbstractThis article analyses the Physical Trade Balances (PTB) of five South American economies since 1990. Both exports and imports (measured in tonnes) increased but …

Network effects in environmental justice struggles: An investigation of conflicts between mining companies and civil society organizations from a network perspective

By Cem Iskender Aydin, Begum Ozkaynak , Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos, Taylan YenilmezAbstractThis paper examines conflicts that occur between mining companies and civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world and offers an …

Violence and visibility in oil palm and sugarcane conflicts: the case of Polochic Valley, Guatemala

By Sara Mingorría. Environmental Science and Technology Institute of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA- UAB) Abstract. Over the last two decades, the expansion of oil palm and sugarcane plantations in …

Nick Meynen

Nick Meynen holds master and other degrees in physical geography, conflict & development and research journalism. He works 4 days a week as policy officer on environmental and economic justice …

Brototi Roy

Brototi Roy is a political ecologist and ecological economist working on environmental and climate justice with a focus on coal in the global south. She currently holds a Margarita Salas …


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