Tag: sustainability
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, …
“Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice” – Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar
By Joan Martínez-Alier & Goutam Karmakar https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2389983 ABSTRACT Joan Martínez-Alier and Goutam Karmakar engage in a conversation where they examine the discourses of the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene, political ecology, and the Entropocene, exploring …
A century of Italian dams: did they serve environmental justice?
New research unpacks the sustainability disclosures of the Italian construction company WeBuild (formerly Salini Impregilo) Picture | The Gibe III dam, Ethiopia. Credits: © Fausto Podavini, ‘Omo Change’ project ‘We build value’. …
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview
By Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorría, Federico Demaria, Sofía Avila, Brototi Roy, Irmak Ertör, Leah Temper, Joan Martínez-AlierAbstract.Recent research and policies recognize the importance …
Who promotes sustainability? Five theses on the relationships between the degrowth and the environmental justice movements
By Bengi Abkulut, Federico Demaria, Julien-François Gerber, Joan Martínez-Alier.AbstractEnvironmental destructions, overconsumption and overdevelopment are felt by an increasing number of people. Voices for ‘prosperity without growth’ have strengthened and environmental conflicts …
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability
By Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene, Joan Martinez-Alier IntroductionThe environmental movement may be “the most comprehensive and influential movement of our time” (Castells 1997: 67), representing for the ‘post-industrial’ age what the …
The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: paths to the pluriverse
By Federico Demaria & Ashish Kothari AbstractThis article lays out both a critique of the oxymoron ‘sustainable development’, and the potential and nuances of a Post-Development agenda. We present ecological swaraj …
Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene
By Grettel Navas. On 24 and 25 April 2017, the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (Colorado State University) held a most fruitful “Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene” conference. It …
Revisiting the Image of Limited Good. On Sustainability, Thermodynamics, and the Illusion of Creating Wealth
By Paul Trawick and Alf Hornborg. Abstract Two worldviews are now contending for cultural dominance: the open-system model long promoted by economists, here called the “image of unlimited good,” and a more …
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)