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Scientific paper • 2019

A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements

Degrowth and environmental justice movements share overarching aims of sustainability and justice and pursue them through radical social change and resistances. Both movements are diverse and comprised of groups that originate and operate in different contexts. The ever-growing metabolism of the world economy presents an obstacle to both movements' aims, while a socio-metabolic perspective...

Scientific paper • 2019

Need, Entitlement and Desert: A Distributive Justice Framework for Consumption Degrowth

By: Cle-Anne Gabriel, Carol Bond

Post-growth societies seek socio-ecological transformations towards a just and sustainable redistribution and reduced consumption of natural capital. There is no one universally just and ecologically sustainable way of fulfilling these redistribution and consumption objectives; it depends on the criteria used and their underlying ethical teleology. We suggest three distribution criteria,...

Scientific paper • 2019

Governance from below and environmental justice: Community water management from the perspective of social metabolism

By: David Barkin, Mario Enrique Fuente-Carrasco, Ricardo Clark-Tapia

The Mexican neoliberal political regime created a hegemonic governance model (top-down) which has tried to impose a single definition for the rules of the distribution of the costs and benefits (environmental and economic) related to the appropriation of “natural resources” (fossil fuels, forests, mineral, water, genetic). Social metabolism is a framework that highlights the contribution of...

Scientific paper • 2019

De-growing environmental justice: Reflections from anti-mining movements in Eastern Europe

By: Irina Velicu

While the critique to economic growth is quintessential in the degrowth scholarship, one may observe a similar focus in various environmental justice movements around the world. This is particularly visible when it comes to the increasing perception that mega-development projects are both unjust and unsustainable, threatening the survival of people and environments. In this paper, we...

Misc • 2018

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice

By: Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker

Description: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90...

Educational paper • 2018

Degrowth and Environmental Justice Summer School 2018: Video Lecture #1

By: Brototi Roy, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos

Course intro (Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos); and Lecture + Q&A on the topic 'Power Dynamics, Inequalities, and Violence' (Brototi Roy)

Misc • 2018

Pós-extrativismo e Decrescimento - Saídas do labirinto capitalista

By: Alberto Acosta, Ulrich Brand

Na Europa — e, agora, também na América Latina — as políticas de austeridade estão fazendo com que a pobreza e a desigualdade voltem a aumentar: o Estado de bem-estar social sucumbe diante do mercado financeiro, enquanto novas fronteiras petrolíferas, mineiras e agropecuárias engolem a vegetação nativa, atropelando os Direitos Humanos e os Direitos da Natureza. Acosta e Brand são categóricos:...

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Frugality as a choice vs. frugality as a social condition

By: Roldan Muradian

Is degrowth doomed to be an Eurocentric project?

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Blue degrowth and environmental justice on the oceans

By: Irmak Ertör

How can we use degrowth ideas and the global movement for environmental justice to engage with the politics of the sea?

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - La economía industrial no es circular sino entrópica

By: Joan Martinez Alier

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Jueves por Joan Martínez Alier: "La economía industrial no es circular sino entrópica"

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - The post Wiindigo, regenerative economy

By: Winona LaDuke

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Miércoles por Winona Laduke: "The post Wiindigo, regenerative economy"

Misc • 2017

No degrowth without climate justice

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Teaser: Changing structures, opposing hierarchies, and embracing the struggle as lessons for the degrowth community From the blog post: Since the 2014 Leipzig Degrowth Conference, the argument that climate justice cannot exist without degrowth has repeatedly been made. In a keynote at the Degrowth conference in Budapest, in September 2016, I developed this line of thinking further and argued...

Scientific paper • 2017

Finding common ground: exploring synergies between degrowth and environmental justice in Chiapas, Mexico

By: Jonathan Otto

Key Words: Degrowth, environmental justice, contestation, Mexico

Misc • 2017

The labor(s) of degrowth

By: Stefania Barca

Teaser on entitle.org: In the first post of the Ecology after capitalism series, Stefania Barca argues that degrowth has potential to facilitate the discussion and practice of an emancipatory ecological class-consciousness, provided it engages with the centrality of work and class in the transition to a post-carbon and post-capitalist paradigm.

Interview • 2017

Environmental Ethics / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Catherine Larrère

By: Catherine Larrère

Catherine Larrère, Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, explains the term "Environmental Ethics" and why it ought to be instrumental to the environmental justice movement. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Environmental justice / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Paul Mohai

By: Paul Mohai

Paul Mohai, University of Michigan, explains the origins of "Environmental Justice", in particular, how it emerged in the United States including his personal experience. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Interview • 2017

Ecosocialism / EnvJustice Vocabulary - Patrick Bond

By: Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond, UKZN-CCS, South Africa, explains the term "Ecosocialism", the crisis of capitalism and the way out with the ecosocialist logic. Youtube-channel EnvJustice Vocabulary

Scientific paper • 2017

Ecology and Justice: Contributions from the margins

By: Daniel Hausknost, Mladen Domazet (ed.), Marija Brajdić Vuković, Melita Carević, Karin Doolan, Pinija Poljaković, Drago Župarić-Iljić

The publisher: Political ecology is a research approach that combines the disciplinary tools of ecology as well as political economy to address the relations between humans and nature, and various outcomes of social and cultural norms that determine different human communities’ access to nature. Political ecology seeks explanations and interpretations of the phenomena resulting from the...

Interview • 2016

Degrowth Summer School & Climate Camp 2015

By: Marc Menningmann

Degrowth Summer School & Climate Camp 2015 from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. Marc Menningmann: The Degrowth Summer School 2015 took place at the climate camp in the Rhineland. The Rhineland is one of the biggest lignite mining regions, the biggest source of CO2 in Europe. To protest against climate-damaging industry and resource extraction, different movements, which have a lot in common...

Scientific paper • 2016

Is there a Global Environmental Justice Movement?

By: Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene, Joan Martinez‐Alier, Arnim Scheidel

Keywords: Environmental justice, ecological distribution conflicts, collaborative research, activist knowledge, EJatlas, environmental racism, environmentalism of the poor, climate justice, statistical political ecology