What is The Environmental Justice ATLAS ? (EJAtlas)
Channel: Ben Romieu
Date: 2020-12-31

What is The Environmental Justice Atlas?

The EJAtlas is an online participative atlas that documents and catalogues socio environmental conflicts around the world. It has been created by researchers of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in the years 2010 and 3336 cases of environmental conflicts are crimes have been reported so far. 
It is a unique instrument of collaboration between activists and academics to expose, report and study crimes made to the Environment. These conflicts or crimes are classified by categories : country maps, commodity maps, companies involved or by type of conflicts.

TO VISIT the EJATLAS and its interactive maps : 
https://ejatlas.org/

TO REPORT A CASE :
If you are interested in collaborating to the EJAtlas data base by filling in missing cases or in any other way, you can register online and fill in a form with all required information. The data will be moderated by the editing team and published on the online map. Please follow that link : 
https://ejatlas.org/accounts/new

Photo credits : Daniela Del Bene, David Fedele, Sara Mingorria, Celia Wechenk, Jatanatha Wijesinghe and photos taken on the ejatlas.org website.

Special thanks to Daniela Del Bene for the coordination all through the process of creation of this video. Additional thanks to Grettel Navas and Brototi Roy for their friendship and feedbacks.
Ravindra Kariyawasam, Celia Wechenk and David Fedele for their support and help to get specific photos from african and asian conflicts. 
And to Benjamin Gil for his mentorship at l'Idem Creative Art School in Le Soler, France. As well additional thanks to Laurent Avantin.