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Latest News: Joan Martinez-Alier Named 2023 Holberg Prize Laureate
The Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology—named Joan Martinez-Alier as its 2023 Laureate.                    Joan Martinez-Alier …
Abisaà Pérez Romero – In Memoriam
Con profundo dolor lamentamos la muerte de Abisaà Pérez Romero, colega, reportero y y estudiante de último grado de la carrera de Comunicación y Cultura la Universidad Autónoma de la …
New Research: Airport projects responsible for human rights violations and ecological destruction around the world
Interactive map documents 80 cases of airport-related injustices and resistance Feature Map: https://ejatlas.org/featured/airport-conflict-around-the-world All across the globe airport projects are generating serious conflicts and social and environmental impacts: land acquisition, displacement of …
Global Atlas of Environmental Justice re-launches website tracking ecological conflicts globally
New platform integrates geo-spatial data to present conflicts in context and expands its coverage The EJOLT project launches today a new phase of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, an interactive …
Unveiling uranium and nuclear power myths
[BRUSSELS 19 November 2014]Â Two new reports expose the various myths used to hide the real impacts of uranium mining and to push for a nuclear renaissance in Europe. An international …
When to count the damage? Economic tools for evaluating liabilities in environmental justice struggles
[BRUSSELS, 20 October 2014] MEDIA RELEASE. The health and environmental implications of fossil fuel exploitation, nuclear waste or mining-related pollution are some of the more well-known effects of the increasing energy …
Map of most influential environmental justice conflicts in the US is released this week
[BRUSSELS, 25 June 2014] The 40 most influential environmental justice conflicts in recent American history are now included in a Global Atlas of Environmental Justice. The U.S. cases were compiled …
Global Atlas of environmental conflicts launched in Brussels
[BRUSSELS, 19 March 2014] The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project launches today its Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, a visually attractive and interactive online mapping platform detailing …
The SpOILed Industry. Environmental Justice strategies in the world of oil.
Chevron in Ecuador and Shell in Nigeria: Transnational Corporations, particularly those in the oil sector, operate around the world and are responsible for some of the most serious environmental damages, but yet they seem …
Unburnable fuels. How to keep the oil in the soil
Today, a global coalition of economists and activists release a 200p report on a variety of initiatives to leave “unburnable” fuels in the soil. The EU funded EJOLT network studied …
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)