Resources
Apiculture vs. Transgenic-soybean in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Monsanto Co. applied in February 2012 to upgrade its Mexican soybean plantations, occupying around 250 thousand ha, from the status of ‘pilot program‘ to ‘commercial’. Some 26% of these are …
Opposition to gold mining at Bergama, Turkey
For much of the 1990s, the tourist town of Bergama was the epicentre of Turkey’s most effective and visible environmental social movement against a multinational mining corporation aiming to establish …
The Angostura Mining Project in the Paramo of Santurban, Colombia
The Angostura Project is located 67 kilometres (41 miles) northeast of Bucaramanga, the capital of Santander. Santander boasts several areas with gold resources, thus there are different kinds of mining …
Accumulation by dispossession
The transition to capitalism has often been preceded by land appropriation by large private landowners and/or by the state, through different kinds of ‘enclosure movements’, physical as well as legal. …
Entropy
A simple way to grasp the fundamental meaning of entropy is to consider that all processes of change are irreversible. Examples include natural processes, such as the growing of a …
Multicriteria evaluation for enhanced Environmental Justice
Decision processes exclusively focussing on monetary aspects face increasing criticism andresistance. The public feels that in this way, important impacts and values are neglected. Values like land rights, human life, aesthetics, cultural significance, sacredness, biodiversity, etc. cannot be adequately …
Guide to Multicriteria Evaluation for Environmental Justice Organisations
Ejolt report 8:Â Guide to Multicriteria Evaluation for Environmental Justice Organisations The low resolution report can be downloaded here. The high resolution report can be downloaded here. Abstract This introduction to multicriteria evaluation methods for …
Environmental governance
Governance is what authorities do. It refers to the practical management of power and policy. Governance may be exercised by a government (nation state), a corporation (business entity), through customary …
Complexity
Complexity is a condition of systems composed of many interconnected parts, where the behaviour of the whole system cannot be fully understood by simply analysing the behaviour of its components. …
Keystone species
The science of Conservation Biology tries to find reasons why biodiversity should be preserved. Biodiversity is the variety of life at three levels: ecosystems, species and genes. Here we focus …
The project ENVJUSTICE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695446)