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Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts
By Sofia Avila. Abstract Wind power is expanding globally. Simultaneously, a growing number of conflicts against large-scale wind farms are emerging in multiple locations around the world. As these processes occur, …
Sri Lanka: a political ecology of socio-environmental conflicts and development projects
By Paola Bianca Camisani. Abstract By analyzing 26 cases in the EJ Atlas for Sri Lanka, their causes, the impacts, the social actors involved, the forms of mobilization, and the main …
Who gets the HANPP (Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production) ? Biomass distribution and the bio -economy in the Tana Delta, Kenya
By Leah Temper AbstractThe Tana Delta, on the east coast of Kenya near Somalia, comprises riverine mangrove forests, wetlands and rangelands and is home to a range of indigenous pastoralist, farmer …
Political ecology of water conflicts
By Beatriz RodrÃguez-Labajos, Joan MartÃnez-Alier AbstractThis article reviews methodologies, types, and political implications of water conflicts from a political ecology perspective. The political ecology of water studies the conflicts on water …
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 …
Louis Lemkow
Louis Lemkow holds a BA in Sociology (University of Essex, UK) and Geography (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), a MSc in Environmental Resources (University of Salford, UK) and a PhD in …
Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis is an environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology. He is ICREA Research Professor at ICTA UAB. Before coming to Barcelona, he was a Marie Curie …
Inside and beyond the Petro-State frontiers: geography of environmental conflicts in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
By Emiliano Teran-Mantovani.Venezuela is well known for its century-old oil economy, which has significantly shaped its social fabrics, territories, and eco-systems. Since 1999, the Bolivarian Revolution has led to important transformations …
Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework
By Arnim Scheidel, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, Joan MartÃnez-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 …
Irmak Ertör
Irmak Ertör is a post-doc researcher in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). She holds a BS in Economics and an MA in Modern …
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)