Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas
Journal of Political Ecology, 2015 This article highlights the need for collaborative research on ecological conflicts within a global perspective. As the social metabolism of our industrial economy increases, intensifying extractive activities and the production of waste, the related ...
Joan Martinez-Alier +2 more
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Coastal sand mining of heavy mineral sands: Contestations, resistance, and ecological distribution conflicts at HMS extraction frontiers across the world. [PDF]
J Ind Ecol, 2023 Abstract Coastal sand mining for metals involves extraction of heavy mineral sands (HMS), which are sedimentary deposits of dense minerals that accumulate in coastal environments. HMS are localized concentrations of ores such as ilmenite, rutile, leucoxene, and iron, which are sources of metals such as titanium, zircon, iron, sillimanite/kyanite ...
Bisht A, Martinez-Alier J.
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Mapping ecological distribution conflicts: The EJAtlas
The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021 Abstract This article describes the origins of the terms “environmental justice” and “environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous” since the 1980s. In 2012 the collection of “ecological distribution conflicts” (EDC) in an Atlas of Environmental Justice (the EJAtlas) started. The EJAtlas reached 3350 entries by January 2021.
Joan Martinez-Alier
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Critical Mapping for Researching and Acting Upon Environmental Conflicts – The Case of the EJAtlas
Studies in Ecological Economics, 2023 AbstractIn this chapter, we revise the trajectory and relevance of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) as one of the main research projects and outcomes of the Barcelona Research Group in Environmental Justice Studies and Political Ecology.
Daniela Del Bene, Sofia Avila
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The EJAtlas: An Unexpected Pedagogical Tool to Teach and Learn About Environmental Social Sciences
Studies in Ecological Economics, 2023 AbstractThis chapter examines how the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas), an online platform that was initially developed by ICTA-UAB—during the EJOLT international project—to make visible and systematize contemporary struggles against environmental injustice worldwide is becoming an attractive interactive tool to teach and learn about Environmental
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The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability [PDF]
Sustainability Science, 2018 Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015 ...
Arnim Scheidel +2 more
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Turismo como vetor de conflitos ambientais: análise global a partir do EjAtlas
Polis (Santiago)Environmental conflicts arise from the appropriation or attempted domination of space by certain agents, projecting undesirable results from one social practice onto another, raising questions about the arbitrary nature of the hegemonic meanings attributed to the territory.
Sandra Dalila Corbari +1 more
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Revue De Geographie AlpineBergregionen werden zunehmend als umkämpfte sozialökologische Räume anerkannt, in denen sich globale Entwicklungsstrategien, Umweltbelange und lokale Lebensweisen überschneiden.
Giorgia Scognamiglio +2 more
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Revue De Geographie AlpineMountain regions are increasingly recognized as contested socio-ecological spaces where global development agendas, environmental concerns, and local livelihoods intersect.
Giorgia Scognamiglio +2 more
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Introduction: comparative political ecology – the EJAtlas, geographical and thematic perspectives
, 2023 Joan Martinez-Alier
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