Tag: Global South
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 …
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 …
How waste pickers in the global South are being sidelined by new policies
By Nina Clausager, Max Stoisser, Federico Demaria and Marcos Todt. The world is producing more and more waste, with serious health and environmental consequences. In urban areas, domestic waste is accumulating …
Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South
By Giuseppina Siciliano, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Juan Liu, Frauke Urban. AbstractChinese investments in large hydropower dams have rapidly increased all over the world in the last 20 years. …
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)