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New: PFAS and the Pollution Trap: Contested Knowledge in Environmental Justice Struggles
By Layla Lomé van der Donk and Marcel Llavero-Pasquina. Read the full article at the Environmental Science & Policy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104281 Abstract Emerging evidence on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination hotspots has put these persistent …
Article: “Development as multidimensional environmental impoverishment”
By Joan Martínez-Alie and Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos Abstract Poverty is multidimensional. Economic growth often implies environmental impoverishment and hence diminished options to choose valuable lives. People who are deprived of access to land, clean water and …
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 …
NEW: “From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa”
Article by Roberto Cantoni, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Elia Apostolopoulou, Julien-François Gerber, Patrick Bond, Joan Martinez-Alier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107015 Accessible at the Journal of World Development, Volume 193. Abstract Africa stands out as the continent where the legacies of colonialism and the ongoing dynamics of neo- and post-colonialism …
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 …
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)