Tag: environmental justice
New: “From Fukushima to fossil fuels: Carbon emissions, climate narratives, and grassroots movements in Japan’s energy transition”
By May Aye Thiri, Mihály Tamás Borsi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103520 Abstract The Fukushima Nuclear Accident triggered an energy predicament in Japan, necessitating initiatives to decarbonise and denuclearise its energy landscape. This shift has intensified reliance on fossil fuels, …
Read Now: “Black gold and green BRI–A grounded analysis of Chinese investment in coal-fired power plants in Indonesia”
By Bowen Gu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101411 Highlights First countrywide analysis of socio-environmental conflicts over coal-fired power plants with Chinese investment. Demonstrates how the politics from below shapes BRI energy infrastructure investment in practice. Analyzes the uneven development of CFPPs in …
New Analysis: “Black gold and green BRI–A grounded analysis of Chinese investment in coal-fired power plants in Indonesia”
By Bowen Gu Highlights First countrywide analysis of socio-environmental conflicts over coal-fired power plants with Chinese investment. Demonstrates how the politics from below shapes BRI energy infrastructure investment in practice. Analyzes the uneven development of CFPPs in …
New Article: “The political ecology of oil and gas corporations: TotalEnergies and post-colonial exploitation to concentrate energy in industrial economies”
By Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Grettel Navas, Roberto Cantoni, Joan Martínez-Alier Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chile, Chile Highlights TotalEnergies function is to extract and concentrate energy in industrial cores. Oil and gas …
The political ecology of oil and gas corporations: the case of TotalEnergies
Browse the conflicts in the EJAtlas linked to the French oil major TotalEnergies analyzed in the research article entitled: “The political ecology of oil and gas companies: TotalEnergies and post-colonial …
Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice
Research based on the Environmental Justice Atlas – www.ejatlas.org Available at Global Environmental Change journal – ScienceDirect Authors: Antonio Bontempi, Pietro Venturi, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Quim Zaldo-Aubanell, Roser Maneja Zaragoza Abstract When are protected areas drivers of environmental injustices and conflict, and …
Discrediting carbon credits
Big Oil going carbon neutral? Here is how carbon offsets impact local and indigenous communities. Authors: Nathaniel Rugh and Marcel Llavero-Pasquina Full article published at: https://theecologist.org/2023/aug/18/discrediting-carbon-credits Fossil fuel companies are increasingly using carbon …
The EJAtlas and the Making of the World Movement for Environmental Justice. A “Sociology of Absences”?
Author: Joan Martínez-Alier Published at the University of Toronto Press, at the The Tocqueville Review. Find it here: https://doi.org/10.3138/ttr.44.1.25 Abstract The EJAtlas is an archive of environmental conflicts. It is a collective endeavor. …
The 2023 Holberg Lecture, by Joan Martinez-Alier: ‘Land, Water, Air and Freedom’
2023 Laureate Joan Martinez-Alier ‘s Holberg Lecture, ‘Land, Water, Air and Freedom’, is published in full in the Holberg Prize’s website and Youtube with a full description. Find it also …
Latest News: Joan Martinez-Alier Named 2023 Holberg Prize Laureate
The Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology—named Joan Martinez-Alier as its 2023 Laureate. Joan Martinez-Alier …
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)