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Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts, and Valuation Languages
Ecological Economics, 2010This special issue brings together ecological economics and political ecological analyses to a greater extent than has been done before (M'Gonigle, 1999; Sneddon et al., 2006; Gerber et al., 2009). It sheds light on resource extraction and waste disposal conflicts in the context of a changing global social metabolism.
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Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Indicators of Sustainability
International Journal of Political Economy, 2004(2004). Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Indicators of Sustainability. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 13-30.
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Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts in India and Latin America
2016This chapter draws on results of the project entitled EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) focused on the analysis of ecological distribution conflicts across the world. We include comparative data on India and Latin America (and also for some variables on Africa and Europe) exploring the links between increases in the ...
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Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts, and Languages of Valuation
Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2009Thirty-five years after the start of the Chipko movement in 1973, twenty years after the death of Chico Mendes in December 1988 in Brazil as the victim of a “tragedy of enclosures,” thirteen years ...
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Regional Environmental Change, 2014
Motivated by an inconclusive debate over implications of resource scarcity for violent conflict, and common reliance on national data and linear models, we investigate the relationship between socio-ecological vul- nerability and armed conflict in global drylands on a sub- national level. Our study emanates from a global typology of smallholder farmers'
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Motivated by an inconclusive debate over implications of resource scarcity for violent conflict, and common reliance on national data and linear models, we investigate the relationship between socio-ecological vul- nerability and armed conflict in global drylands on a sub- national level. Our study emanates from a global typology of smallholder farmers'
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A decolonial approach to ecological distribution conflicts and the Maya Train in Mexico
Latin American PerspectivesA neoliberal development model, frequently at odds with the values of the local Mayan biocultural heritage, has historically prompted the conversion of forests and small-scale agricultural land, mainly in the Yucatan Peninsula. This study analyzes ethnographic data collected in two localities in the peninsula that will be impacted by the Maya Train ...
Mauricio Feliciano López-Barreto +7 more
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Sustainability Science, 2017
Understanding how ecological distribution conflicts (EDCs) have changed through the transition from socialism to capitalism in the European semi-periphery can provide valuable lessons for global efforts towards sustainability. This article traces the social, political and economic origins of EDCs, and evaluates the outcomes of the 74 most illustrative ...
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Understanding how ecological distribution conflicts (EDCs) have changed through the transition from socialism to capitalism in the European semi-periphery can provide valuable lessons for global efforts towards sustainability. This article traces the social, political and economic origins of EDCs, and evaluates the outcomes of the 74 most illustrative ...
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Environmental impoverishment, ecological distribution conflicts and multi-dimensional poverty
The word “development” is synonymous to economic growth in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8. We know however that after Amartya Sen’s 1999 book “Development as Freedom”, development did not mean increased income per capita but a decrease in poverty and a wide exercising of capabilities and of freedom of choice.Joan Martínez-Alier +2 more
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