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Environmental justice and corporate social irresponsibility: the case of the mining company Vale S.A
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2021 After the Vale’s tailings dam failure in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais) in early 2019, a group of researchers and activists from around the world produced a thematic map in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) including 30 cases of ...
Beatriz Macchione Saes +4 more
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2021 This study illustrates how, despite the diversity of women environmental defenders and their movements around the world, there are near-universal patterns of violence threatening their survival.
Dalena Le Tran +3 more
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Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2023 L’articolo indaga la categoria geografico-economica delle Global Production Networks (GPNs), soprattutto con riferimento alla sua capacità di cogliere gli aspetti critici del rapporto tra capitale multinazionale e sviluppo regionale.
Roberta Gemmiti +3 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022 The crude oil spill on the Brazilian coast in 2019 is considered the largest environmental disaster of this nature in the country. It had important repercussions on the environment and on the living and health conditions of the population, particularly ...
MARIANA OLÍVIA S. DOS SANTOS +4 more
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Courts as an arena for socioenvironmental change: Lessons from the Argentine courts
European Law Journal, Volume 29, Issue 3-6, Page 294-311, May-November 2023., 2023 Abstract Trends in the Argentine courts indicate a judicial preference towards flexibility in light of possibly serious environmental consequences, particularly in relation to mining. Through a liberal interpretation of constitutional provisions where collective environmental rights are threatened, the courts have expanded access to justice, leading ...
Asmaa Khadim
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Struggles for just conservation: an analysis of India's biodiversity conservation conflicts
Journal of Political Ecology, 2022 The protection of the Earth's remaining biodiversity continues to be a debate of global importance as well as a source of contestation. In this context, the Indian government started with its post-colonial forest conservation from the 1970s, by ushering ...
Eleonora Fanari
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 638-656, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Although companies recognize the importance of social responsibility and community engagement, conflicts between companies and communities have been noticeably increasing. To better understand the role of institutional environments in company–community conflicts, we analyze two mining conflicts—Minera Yanacocha's Minas Conga extension project ...
Chang Hoon Oh +2 more
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Conflicts and socioenvironmental injustice in the Acaú-Goiana Extractive Reserve [PDF]
Ambiente & SociedadeThe article analyzed the sugarcane-derived socioenvironmental conflicts and injustice in the Acaú-Goiana Extractive Reserve, Pernambuco, Brazil. A descriptive case study was conducted with rural workers based on social cartography and documents, analyzed
Aline de Souza Souto +4 more
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Changing social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India and South America
Journal of Political Ecology, 2016 Firstly, we present some environmental conflicts gathered in 2016 in the EJAtlas, selecting a few that have implied deaths of environmental defenders around the world including India and South America.
Joan Martinez-Alier +3 more
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Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2019 In the last two decades conflicts due to biodiversity conservation projects have been rising all over the world. This is due to the interest at the global level towards environmental protection, which is often implemented at the expense of communities ...
Eleonora Fanari
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