Tag: environmental justice
NEW ONLINE COURSE: “Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice”
EJOLT is running an online course “Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice”, taught through civil society organisation (CSO) case studies across a broad range of topics…
Killed while fighting for environmental justice
By Joan Martinez-Alier One of EJOLT’s main tasks is to collect and map a large inventory (not less than 2000 cases) of environmental conflicts. Some…
Rio+20: a failure to face our challenges and injustices
This morning, all the nine major groups within the UN system had a hard time to find anything positive coming out of Rio+20. Kiara Worth,…
No Green Economy without Environmental Justice!
Twenty years after the Rio UNCED conference, our world is still deteriorating. The costs of inaction are accumulating: social, environmental and – least of all…
EJOLT Report 4: Legal avenues for EJOs to claim environmental liability
From oil drilling disasters at the equator to climate change effects on the North Pole and from uranium mining in the desert to the dumping…
Legal avenues for EJOs to claim environmental liability
Ejolt Report 4: Legal avenues for EJOs to claim environmental liability EJOLT Report 4. Abstract Questions of global justice raise within transnational relations in the…
Socio-ecological transitions and ecological justice
By Joan Martinez-Alier. Twenty years after Rio, the victories of Sustainable Development and, now, the Green Economy, are more noticeable in the field of rhetoric…
Online course: Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice
EJOLT is running an online course “Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice”, taught through civil society organisation (CSO) case studies across a broad range of topics…
Gold in Greece: corporations create civil war
By Federico Demaria, Giorgios Kallis and Nick Meynen. A battle centered on gold mines in the north of Greece is turning violent. Because of the economical…
