Scientific Papers
The price of an apology: justice, compensation and rectification
By John O’Neill, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester AbstractQuestions about monetary compensation for environmental damage have been at the centre of debates on the defensibility …
China has a plan – Peak Coal and the new Silk Road
This Article is written by Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria and has been by the Ecologist on 25th July.China’s contribution to global climate change will increase from oil and …
Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt. Introduction to the special section. J. of Political Ecology,
By Alf Hornborg and J. Martinez-Alier.AbstractThis article introduces a Special Section on Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), an underlying source of most of the environmental distribution conflicts in our time. The …
Changing social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India and South America
By Joan Martinez-Alier, F. Demaria, Leah Temper, M. WalterAbstractFirstly, we present some environmental conflicts gathered in 2016 in the EJAtlas, selecting a few that have implied deaths of environmental defenders …
Commercial and biophysical deficits in South America, 1990–2013
By P. Samaniego, M.C. Vallejo, J. Martinez-AlierAbstractThis article analyses the Physical Trade Balances (PTB) of five South American economies since 1990. Both exports and imports (measured in tonnes) increased but …
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 RodrÃguez-Labajos, Taylan YenilmezAbstractThis paper examines conflicts that occur between mining companies and civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world and offers an …
Violence and visibility in oil palm and sugarcane conflicts: the case of Polochic Valley, Guatemala
By Sara MingorrÃa. Environmental Science and Technology Institute of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA- UAB)Â Abstract. Over the last two decades, the expansion of oil palm and sugarcane plantations in …
Health as dignity: political ecology, epistemology and challenges to environmental justice movements
By Marcelo Firpo Porto (1), Diogo Rocha Ferreira and Renan FinamoreNational School of Public Health / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil(1) Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed AbstractThe article discusses …
Evolution of the environmental justice movement: activism, formalization and differentiation
By Alejandro Colsa Perez, Bernadette Grafton, Paul Mohai (1), Rebecca Hardin, Katy Hintzen and Sara Orvis School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 440 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI …
Transforming knowledge creation for environmental and epistemic justice;
By Leah Temper and Daniela Del Bene. Abstract Environmental Justice is both a field of study and a social movement. This dialectical relationship between theory and praxis constitutes the basis of its …
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)