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Resistance as governance: Transformative strategies forged on the frontlines of extractivism in Canada

By Jen Gobby, Leah Temper, Matthew Burket and Nicolas von Ellenrieder. From the journal The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021. Article based on the analysis of cases from the EJAtlas. Abstract Attempts in Canada …

conflict, environmental justice, governance, Indigenous resistance, social movements, transformation

A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements

By Arnim Scheidel and Anke Schaffartzik.AbstractDegrowth and environmental justice movements share overarching aims of sustainability and justice and pursue them through radical social change and resistances. Both movements are diverse …

Alliance, justice, Social metabolism, social movements, Socio-ecological transitions, sustainability

From boomerangs to minefields and catapults: dynamics of trans-local resistance to land-grabs

By Leah TemperAbstractThis paper explores the political processes that activists engaged in contesting land grabbing have triggered to connect claims across borders and to international institutions, regimes and processes. Through a …

advocacy, certification, contention, Financialization, politics of scale, social movements, transnational activism

Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework

Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? A new paper from Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria and Joan Martínez-Alier addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, …

environmental justice, Environmental Justice Atlas, Grassroots politics, Social metabolism, social movements, Sustainability transitions

Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework

By Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Joan Martínez-AlierAbstractCan ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and …

environmental justice, Environmental Justice Atlas, Grassroots politics, Social metabolism, social movements, Sustainability transitions

The map of conflicts related to environmental injustice and health in Brazil

By Diogo Ferreira da Rocha, Marcelo Firpo Porto, Tania Pacheco, Jean Pierre LeroyAbstractThis article discusses the experience of the map of conflicts related to environmental injustices and health in Brazil and its potential contribution to international movements for …

Collective health, environmental conflicts, environmental justice, maps, social movements

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 …

environmental justice, mining conflicts, Network effects, social movements, Social network analysis

Make human rights truly universal. Legal Perspectives and Policy Recommendations on Claims for Ecological- and Climate Debt

The universality of human rights has been clear from the outset, but governments have tended to limit recognition of their obligations to their own territory. This reductionism has led to …

climate debt, ecological debt, environmental justice, global constitutionalism, global social metabolism, human rights, International law, social movements

International law and ecological debt

Ejolt report 11: International law and ecological debt The low resolution report can be downloaded here. The high resolution report can be downloaded here. Abstract Under the paradigm of sustainable development, contemporary international law …

climate debt, colonialism, counter-hegemonic claims, ecological debt, environmental justice, global constitutionalism, global social metabolism, human rights, social movements, sustainable development, third world approaches to international law, trans-civilisational approaches to international law

EnvJustice

EnvJustice is a research project to study and contribute to the Global Environmental Justice Movement

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