Is There a Global Movement for Environmental Justice? Prof Martinez-Alier, SOAS
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2017-05-12

This Development Studies seminar titled "Is There a Global Movement for Environmental Justice?" was given by Professor Joan Martinez-Alier (Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) on 24 November 2015 at SOAS University of London.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/

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I think we can show there is such a movement for environmental justice, relying for evidence on the Environmental Justice Atlas (www.ejatlas.org), a database drawing on activist and academic knowledge. In the EJAtlas we have collected 1500 cases (June 2015), we must improve and increase thematic and geographical coverage in the next few years. EJAtlas systematizes conflicts across 100+ fields documenting the commodities at stake, the social actors involved; environmental, social and health impacts, forms of mobilizations, outcomes. It should allow spatial analysis showing links between changes in social metabolism and resource extraction conflicts at the ‘commodity frontiers’.