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The ‘Environmentalism of the Poor’ revisited: Territory and place in disconnected glocal struggles by Anguelovski, Isabelle, Martínez Alier, Joan

“…In 2002, the year it was published, The Environmentalism of the Poor was one of the first books examining in a multidisciplinary perspective three parallel…”
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Coastal sand mining of heavy mineral sands: Contestations, resistance, and ecological distribution conflicts at HMS extraction frontiers across the world by Bisht, Arpita, Martinez‐Alier, Joan

“…Coastal sand mining for metals involves extraction of heavy mineral sands (HMS), which are sedimentary deposits of dense minerals that accumulate in coastal…”
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A socio-metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation by Haberl, Helmut, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Martinez-Alier, Joan, Winiwarter, Verena

“…Over the last two million years, humans have colonized almost the entire biosphere on Earth, thereby creating socio‐ecological systems in which fundamental…”
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Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions by Menton, Mary, Larrea, Carlos, Latorre, Sara, Martinez-Alier, Joan, Peck, Mika, Temper, Leah, Walter, Mariana

“…Through their synergies, trade-offs, and contradictions, the sustainable development goals (SDGs) have the potential to lead to environmental justices and…”
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The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability by Temper, Leah, Demaria, Federico, Scheidel, Arnim, Del Bene, Daniela, Martinez-Alier, Joan

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Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas by Temper, Leah, Shmelev, Stanislav

“…This article highlights the need for collaborative research on ecological conflicts within a global perspective. As the social metabolism of our industrial…”
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Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects by Temper, Leah, Avila, Sofia, Bene, Daniela Del, Gobby, Jennifer, Kosoy, Nicolas, Billon, Philippe Le, Martinez-Alier, Joan, Perkins, Patricia, Roy, Brototi, Scheidel, Arnim, Walter, Mariana

“…In this article we undertake a systematic mapping of 649 cases of resistance movements to both fossil fuel (FF) and low carbon energy (LCE) projects, providing…”
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Socially Sustainable Economic De-growth by Alier, Joan Martinez

“…ABSTRACT Economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability. The effort to push up the rate of growth by increasing obligations to repay…”
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Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt by Hornborg, Alf, Martinez-Alier, Joan

“…This article introduces a Special Section on Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), an underlying source of most of the environmental distribution conflicts in…”
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Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework by Scheidel, Arnim, Temper, Leah, Demaria, Federico, Martínez-Alier, Joan

“…Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why,…”
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Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm by Martínez-Alier, Joan, Pascual, Unai, Vivien, Franck-Dominique, Zaccai, Edwin

“…“Sustainable de-growth” is both a concept and a social-grassroots (Northern) movement with its origins in the fields of ecological economics, social ecology,…”
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A State‐of‐the‐Art Review of Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Pollution by Fernández‐Llamazares, Álvaro, Garteizgogeascoa, María, Basu, Niladri, Brondizio, Eduardo Sonnewend, Cabeza, Mar, Martínez‐Alier, Joan, McElwee, Pamela, Reyes‐García, Victoria

“…ABSTRACT Indigenous peoples (IPs) worldwide are confronted by the increasing threat of pollution. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature (n = 686…”
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Payments for environmental services in watersheds: Insights from a comparative study of three cases in Central America by Kosoy, Nicolas, Martinez-Tuna, Miguel, Muradian, Roldan, Martinez-Alier, Joan

“…We have compared three cases of payments for water-related environmental services (PES) in Central America, in terms of socioeconomic background, opportunity…”
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Green and climate colonialities: Evidence from Arctic extractivisms by Hanaček, Ksenija, Kroger, Markus, Martinez-Alier, Joan

“…This article examines 16 environmental conflicts across the Arctic that demonstrate resistance to both climate and green extractive colonialisms. Resistance…”
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Climate Justice by Martinez-Alier, Joan

“…A review essay covering books by 1) Henry Shue, Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection (2014) and 2) Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything. Capitalism…”
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From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation by Brand, Ulrich, Muraca, Barbara, Pineault, Éric, Sahakian, Marlyne, Schaffartzik, Anke, Novy, Andreas, Streissler, Christoph, Haberl, Helmut, Asara, Viviana, Dietz, Kristina, Lang, Miriam, Kothari, Ashish, Smith, Tone, Spash, Clive, Brad, Alina, Pichler, Melanie, Plank, Christina, Velegrakis, Giorgos, Jahn, Thomas, Carter, Angela, Huan, Qingzhi, Kallis, Giorgos, Martínez Alier, Joan, Riva, Gabriel, Satgar, Vishwas, Teran Mantovani, Emiliano, Williams, Michelle, Wissen, Markus, Görg, Christoph

“…The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science…”
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Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations by Martinez-Alier, Joan, Shmelev, Stanislav

“…In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations) and their networks have introduced several…”
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Gendered geographies of violence: a multiple case study analysis of murdered women environmental defenders by Tran, Dalena, Navas, Grettel, Martinez-Alier, Joan, Mingorria, Sara

“…This study illustrates how, despite the diversity of women environmental defenders and their movements around the world, there are near-universal patterns of…”
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Editorial: Some Insights on the Role of Violence by Martinez-Alier, Joan, Roy, Brototi

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Political ecology of water conflicts by Rodríguez‐Labajos, Beatriz, Martínez‐Alier, Joan

“…This article reviews methodologies, types, and political implications of water conflicts from a political ecology perspective. The political ecology of water…”
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