Lecture: "Circularity, Entropy, Ecological Conflicts and Unburnable Fuels", by Joan Martínez Alier

Joan Martínez Alier, Ecological Economist at ICTA-UAB, will be giving the lecture "Circularity, Entropy, Ecological Conflicts and “Unburnable Fuels” next Friday, April 30th at 12h (BST), organised by the Centre for Environmental History (CWEH) of the University of Sussex.

Title: "Circularity, Entropy, Ecological Conflicts and “Unburnable Fuels”

A talk by Joan Martinez-Alier, ICTA-UAB researcher
 

Date: Friday 30 April 2021
Time: 12 h-13:30 (BST) - 13h-14:30 (CEST) Madrid)
RSVP for zoom invite: environmentalhistory@sussex.ac.uk

Claims for climate justice and reparation for ecological debt have been put forward by environmentalists from the Global South since 1991, together with strategy of leaving fossil fuel in the ground led by bottom-up movements. Joan Martinez-Alier will discuss his work on Ecological Distribution Conflicts (EDC) and reducing of carbon dioxide emissions. Join us for this online talk and discussion.

Joan Martinez-Alier is a leading ecological economist, grassroots environmental activist and long-standing friend of the Centre for Environmental History, who inspired the work in recent years of scholars, institutions and the environmental movement worldwide, talking to power and visiting ecological conflict sites. Joan’s 2014 intervention in CWEH focused its strategy of work, effective intervention in scholarship and on the ground, based on international solidarity network of activism and new knowledge. Joan is author of Environmentalism of the Poor (2002) and EJAtlas.org.

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