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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 …

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 …

New Research – Participatory Security as Form of Control: Kaziranga National Park, India

Fanari, Eleonora – Ph.D. Candidate, Institute de Ciència y Tecnologia Ambientals Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Barcelona, Spain. Abstract ‘More security, more conservation’ is the mantra utilised by the Indian forest service …

Available now: “We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds

By: Ksenija Hanaček, Dalena Tran, Arielle Landau, Teresa Sanz, May Aye Thiri, Grettel Navas, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Mariana Walter, Aida Lopez, Brototi Roy, Eleonora Fanari & Joan Martinez-Alier Abstract This article analyzes the global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. To do so, …

Standing in Solidarity: Defending Free Speech and Environmental Justice in Serbia

Support to activists in Serbia who receive anonymous death threats As EnvJustice and the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) project, we strongly support the following statement, in relation to the death threats …